Leonard Cohen – Untold Stories: The Early Years
By Michael Posner
Simon & Schuster
482 pages
Reviewed by Michael Regenstreif
By the time I was a teenager in Montreal in the late-1960s, Leonard Cohen – who was 20 years older than me – was already a legend…
Artist Carol Weidman (née Freeman) passed away on November 30 in Ottawa.
Born in Montreal on July 17, 1942, Carol graduated from McGill University and the École des Beaux-arts de Montréal. Carol’s vibrant artistic talent was evidenced in her series of watercolour/mixed media paintings …
By Rebecca Abelson, Embassy of Israel
The Israeli flag created by Shlomo Feldberg shortly before his passing hangs proudly in the Ambassador’s office in the Embassy of Israel in Ottawa.
Feldberg, a Holocaust survivor, artist, and Ottawa-resident hoped his flag would be hung in a signific…
An antisemitic cake, a Holocaust survivor and a whole lot of Hebrew.
By Gabe Friedman
Spoiler alert: This article contains information about scenes and plot points in “Borat 2.”
(JTA) – Sacha Baron Cohen’s new “Borat” sequel features plenty of crude gags and surprise appearanc…
Perfume: Poems and Word Sonnets
By Seymour Mayne
Ronald P. Frye & Co.
74 pages
Reviewed by B. Glen Rotchin
This collection features some of prolific Ottawa poet Seymour Mayne’s best poems in years. After more than six decades of writing, and with more than 70 publications to his cre…
