{"id":44998,"date":"2024-09-13T01:43:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=44998"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T22:48:15","slug":"fundraiser-for-emanu-el-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/fundraiser-for-emanu-el-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser for Emanu-El @ 160"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(photos courtesy Emanu-El)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Gregor Craigie, host of CBC Radio One\u2019s\u00a0<em>On the Island<\/em>, interviews Eleanor Wachtel at Congregation Emanu-El on Sept. 15, at 2 p.m., about her career helming the CBC\u2019s premier literary program,\u00a0<em>Writers &amp; Company<\/em>.\u00a0 During her 33-year tenure with the show, Wachtel spoke with a Who\u2019s Who of authors, including Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, John le Carr\u00e9 and Kazuo Ishiguro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Eleanor\u2019s] sense of respect, her tact, her utter lack of obsequiousness . . . and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions have endeared her to readers and listeners,\u201d said Canadian writer Carol Shields, whose book,\u00a0<em>The Stone Diaries<\/em>, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Craigie is both an author and an expert interviewer in his own right. A journalist for more than 25 years, his most recent book,\u00a0<em>Our Crumbling Foundation<\/em>, which examines Canada\u2019s housing crisis, is a national bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of Emanu-El\u2019s 160th anniversary celebrations, and is a fundraiser for the synagogue, which is undergoing structural and other renovations. Tickets ($36) can be purchased at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketowl.io\/cevbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ticketowl.io\/cevbc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Congregation Emanu-El<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photos courtesy Emanu-El) Gregor Craigie, host of CBC Radio One\u2019s\u00a0On the Island, interviews Eleanor Wachtel at Congregation Emanu-El on Sept. 15, at 2 p.m., about her career helming the CBC\u2019s premier literary program,\u00a0Writers &amp; Company.\u00a0 During her 33-year tenure with the show, Wachtel spoke with a Who\u2019s Who of authors, including Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784,4],"tags":[985,23497,1332,8039,23496,8175],"class_list":["post-44998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-local","tag-cbc","tag-eleanor-wachtel","tag-emanu-el","tag-fundraiser","tag-gregor-craigie","tag-restoration"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}