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15/06/2011

The culturally infused Israeli music group "Yemen Blues" visited Toronto on June 14th to perform at the Luminato Festival of Arts. But not before making a stop at the Rose Avenue Public School, jamming out to celebrate peace and fusion in a school that is culturally rich and multi-ethnic. Friday Night magazine was there.

05/05/2011

George Will (centre) was keynote speaker on May 2nd at The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada's Builders of Jerusalem Gala. The Pulitzer-Prize winning author and noted Washington columnist addressed a crowd of 500 at The Carlu with his perspective on recent world events, particularly relating to Israel and the Middle East. Also pictured: gala co-chairs Debbie Kimel and Jeremy Freedman.

02/05/2011

The half-Jewish N**i who saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Few people know that during WWII, the Lubavitcher Rebbe owed his life to a half-Jewish N**i officer in the Third Reich's military intelligence. That, according to filmmaker Larry Price, whose documentary "The Chabad Rebbe and the German Officer," debuted on Israel TV on the eve of Yom Ha’Shoah. http://bit.ly/lwSohE

Thanks to the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, Chabad Lubavitch is a well-known and powerful Hasidic movement. But few people know that the rebbe's predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, owes his life to a half-Jewish N**i officer acting under the direct order of the head of the Third Reich

29/04/2011

Nancy Steinhauer, school principal profiled in Friday Night, hosted "Cooking It Up", a cooking demo by Chatelaine food editor, Claire Tansey. The event raised close to $10,000 for the brand new Paul D. Steinhauer Clinic at Nancy's school, George Webster Elementary, a Model School for Inner Cities in the TDSB. This school-based paediatric clinic (unique to only two Toronto schools) will serve 800 inner-city children in a community with otherwise minimal healthcare options. George Webster School http://bit.ly/jh5Ir6

16/04/2011

Francine Hermelin is the author of My Haggadah, Made it Myself, a haggadah designed just for kids that doubles as an interactive activity kit. She's a Motown girl transplanted to NYC, but if days spent at summer camp in Ontario counted, she's good as half Canadian. Hermelin and her innovative haggadah are subjects of an "Interview with Interesting Jews" at http://bit.ly/erMQGA

15/04/2011

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal

Avi Benlolo, human rights activist and President and CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre is interviewed about the new FSWC Human Rights Gallery
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15/04/2011

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15/04/2011

Leonard Cohen: Live in London is among the films to be screened in THE THREE LENNYS: A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen and Lenny Bruce. That is the much-talked-about Sidebar Series running during this year’s Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which opens May 7th. The series includes documentaries, concert films, shorts and a feature biopic -- many of which have rarely or never before been screened.

15/04/2011

Food Boxes Help Israeli and Russian Jews in Need to Celebrate Passover

Food Boxes Help Israeli and Russian Jews in Need to Celebrate Passover

While Jewish poverty in Toronto is reported in Friday Night magazine, the problem is worldwide. As Passover approaches, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, is providing $2 million to help as many as 200,000 needy Jews in Israel and the former...

14/04/2011

Blair accepts Shalit petition from Magen David Adom UK Chair, Stuart Glyn

Blair accepts Shalit petition from Magen David Adom UK Chair, Stuart Glyn

In April 2011, Magen David Adom UK Chairman, Stuart Glyn, presented Tony Blair with a petition demanding Gilad Shalit is given his full human rights and a visit from the International Red Cross. The petition was launched in September 2010 and by the time it was handed over to Mr Blair, approaching 2...

14/04/2011

“I met Zero Mostel when I was 14,” says Jim Brochu. At age 23, actor Brochu was sized up by a NY reviewer, “If ever they do Zero Mostel’s life story, this is the guy who should play him.” With that in mind, decades later Brochu finally wrote - and since 2009 has starred in - Zero Hour, brought to Toronto by the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company. It’s a one-man narrative of the life and career of the legendary Mostel, who played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and stole the show in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Producers.

13/04/2011

Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company launched its 2011-2012 lineup: Mandy Patinkin in Mamaloshen, Off Broadway hit titled Circumcise Me (pictured), The Children`s Republic (true Warsaw ghetto story of Dr. Janusz Korczak), Visiting Mr. Green starring Theodore Bikel, and Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers. HGJTC’s 5th season and first as a new company in residence at the Jane Mallett Theatre.

13/04/2011

George Will to Speak at The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada's Builders of Jerusalem Gala on May 2 in Toronto

12/04/2011

Toronto City Councillor James Pasternak congratulates the members of The Mitzvah Group as they are awarded as Excellent Long-Term Care Homes & Services Volunteers by the City of Toronto.

The Mitzvah Group are dedicated volunteers formed many years ago to serve the Jewish residents of Cu**er Lodge, who make up about 25% of the home's population. They run a regular Shabbat service, bringing residents to the service and helping them participate in a tradition which is an integral part of their lives.

The group's members are Bernie Weisglass, Eva Aroosi, Ira Abraham, Joseph Black, Leon Kamnisky, Harold Kates, David Price, David Usher, Judy Abraham and Nancy Pruskin.

05/04/2011

Actor Marc Bendavid performed in Art of Time Ensemble’s “War of the Worlds”, a re-creation of Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio drama broadcast that caused panic when listeners thought it was reporting an actual Martian invasion. Of his co-stars, seasoned film/TV veterans Nicholas Campbell and Don McKellar, Bendavid told Friday Night magazine, “It’s a full room; there’s lots of personality.” The 28 year old Bendavid grew up in Richmond Hill and started acting at age 10 at the Leah Posluns Theatre. A grad of Montreal’s National Theatre School of Canada, he has performed to great reviews on stage and in film.

28/03/2011

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22/03/2011

The sold out second installment of the JNF Mother Daughter series took place on March 16, 2011. The Mother Daughter Beauty Blitz was an evening of glamour and pampering for the women who attended. The evening consisted of various different beauty stations offering guests an opportunity to pamper themselves while raising funds to build a JNF therapy garden in Be’er Sheva for young adults living with autism in cooperation with the Israeli Society for Autistic Children (ALUT).
Ladies were given beauty advice and a custom lipstick color from make-up artist Maureen Greenstein, received a personalized bottle of perfume from Scents of the Zodiac, had their hair styled by Capelli’s Charlie and got mini manicures by Marvel Esthetics. All these wonderful opportunities to be pampered were complimented by a chocolate and wine bar by PR Creative Caterers.

14/03/2011

Sascha Cole in title role of Diary of Anne Frank. Read more in new issue of Friday Night magazine. Subscribe free at fridaynightmag.com

11/03/2011

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11/03/2011

Check out photos from last night's CJPAC event - coming soon!

10/03/2011

Friday Night Magazine | Celebrating Jewish Life in Toronto

Friday Night Magazine | Celebrating Jewish Life in Toronto

10/03/2011

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10/03/2011

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10/03/2011

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10/03/2011

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