Zera Café – Food with a Purpose
February 13, 2025
Zera Café is a not-for-profit social enterprise that prepares and delivers healthy homemade meals and caters events in Montreal.
Paul Starr
A Visit Back to the Borscht Belt
August 8, 2024
The Borscht Belt Festival, now in its second year, has successfully managed to bring back some of the wonderful nostalgia that was the Catskill Mountains.
Real Life Problems: Hoarding
June 21, 2023
There is no doubt that my mother was a hoarder. It was difficult for her to part with anything. As I reach the tender age of 70, I realize that I have inherited some of my mother’s bad habits.
A Dog’s Journey Through Nazi Germany — From His Four-Legged Perspective
June 8, 2023
“The Jewish Dog,” a novel by Asher Kravitz and translated from Hebrew by Michal Kessler, does not disappoint.
Showing Both Sides of Modern India in ‘Honor’
May 18, 2023
“Honor” is the most recent novel by best-selling author Thrity Umrigar.
Montreal Jews Lived Their Exodus
April 11, 2023
As we watched from our windows, it looked like one of the ten plagues was being repeated right on our front lawns.
Gangsterism in the Shmatte Business
September 29, 2022
When I first started reading “Button Man” by Andrew Gross, a historical novel loosely based on the life story of Gross’s grandfather, I couldn’t help but think of my own father.
America the Beautiful, Where Have You Gone?
July 13, 2022
As a Canadian who loves America, it pains me to see what is happening south of the border.
Shonda on a Honda – The Helen Geller Story
January 27, 2022
Almost everyone knows those actors of the 1950’s and 60’s who rose to fame and fortune on Broadway, on the silver screen and on network television.
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