About Town: Week of June 13

Thursday, June 13

 

BOOK REVIEW

Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner is reviewed by Claire Stern at the Jewish Public Library at 2 p.m. This novel is about a haredi woman torn between tradition and her passion for art. Tickets, 514-345-2627, ext. 3006.

 

Friday, June 14

 

ABOUT IRELAND

Ezra Kleinman offers “A Taste of the Green and Beautiful Ireland: North and South”at the Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors at 10 a.m. Joyce, 514-342-1234, ext. 7318.

 

Monday, June 17

 

SCOTCH ‘N’ CIGARS

The Chaya Mushka Seminary

holds its annual “Scotch ‘n’ Cigar”fundraiser at 5 p.m. Bourbon is on offer this year as well. Reservations, [email protected].

 

CANCER SURVIVORSHIP

Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau, who wrote about his successful battle with cancer in the book Rebirth, is guest speaker at the annual Cancer Survivorship Day at the Jewish General Hospital, Block Amphitheatre, at 7 p.m. It’s in French with simultaneous translation. Dessert reception and book signing follow. Reservations, 514-340-8255.

 

GOLF TOURNAMENT

The Chevra and Beth Ora congregations hold a joint golf tournament at Club Val des Lacs in Ste. Sophie, promising a day of food and fun. Iona, 514-482-3366.

 

Tuesday, June 18

 

BEILIN AT TEMPLE

Former Israeli cabinet minister Yossi Beilin leads a dialogue on “Saying Yes to Social Change in Israel Today” at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by New Israel Fund of Canada. Registration, www.nifcan.org.

 

RHYMING MOM

Margie Golick, a retired child psychologist, discusses her book of verse The Life and Rhymes of a Jewish Mother at a Beth Ora Seniors meeting at 1:30 p.m. 514-342-1234, ext. 7318.

 

Wednesday, June 19

 

BOOK REVIEW

Stephanie King reviews The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom at 9:30 a.m., closing the Book Lovers season. 514-937-3575.

MSH AUXILIARY IS 80

The public is invited to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary at the Hudson Village Theatre to see the comedy Harvest by Ken Cameron at 2 p.m. It’s preceded by a light lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets, 514-369-2222, ext. 1337.

 

ABOUT ADOPTION

Diane Koven speaks on “Adoption: Who Am I, Really?” at a meeting of the FAB Group of Act to End Violence Against Women at the Côte St. Luc Aquatics and Community Centre at 1:15 p.m. Reservations, 514-487-2330.

 

…Et Cetera…

 

GENOCIDE EXHIBIT

The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre has partnered with local Armenian, Rwanda and Cambodian organizations to present a new multimedia exhibition entitled “United Against Genocide: Understand, Question, Prevent.” The exhibition, which will evolve over the next five years, examines genocide through survivors’ stories and artifacts gathered by the participating groups.

 

BAR MITZVAH SHOW

The Bar Mitzvah Show returns to the Just for Laughs  Festival on July 25 for two performances at Place des Arts’ Théâtre Maisonneuve, hosted by Elon Gold (Half Jewish/Half Very Jewish). This is a showcase of the best of the new Jewish comics, including Gary Gulman  and Jessica Kirson…Elsewhere, French comedian Gad Elmaleh, who lived in Montreal in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, will be performing in English.

 

STE. SOPHIE REUNION

The celebration of 100-plus years of the Jewish presence in Ste. Sophie, New Glasgow and St. Lin takes place Sept. 1 at the Club Optimiste in Ste. Sophie. “Unzera Shtetl”will include panel displays, tours, speakers and a religious service. Registration at www.jewishfarmers.myevent.com.

Three Montreal filmmakers are having their documentaries shown out of town this week. Abigail Hirsch’s Yiddish: A Tale of Survival has its world premiere at the New York City International Film Festival on June 18 at the SVA Theater, as part of Israel Film Day. Shot in Israel, Canada and the United States, Yiddish tells the story of the language and culture since the Holocaust through the personal stories of Yiddish theatre founder Shmuel Atzmon of Tel Aviv, Montreal’s Bryna Wasserman, now in New York, and Milena Kartowsky, a young Paris-based performer and Yiddish cultural activist…Irene Lilienheim Angelico and Abbey Jack Neidik’s acclaimed 1985 film Dark Lullabies is screened during the Stratford Festival on June 14 at the University of Waterloo.

Angelico examined the Holocaust through interviews with survivors and their children in Montreal and Israel, as well as their contemporaries in Germany.

KlezKanada founder Hy Goldman and his wife Sandy will be honoured at the 18th edition of this Laurentian retreat celebrating Jewish music and culture with the renaming of the annual support for young people’s participation, the Rouchle and Chaim Goldman Youth Scholarship Program (their Hebrew names). A dinner and concert in tribute to the couple, who are the mainstays of this annual event, will be held on Aug. 21. It will feature early scholarship recipient Josh “Socalled” Dolgin, who went on to an international musical career. Up to 100 young people from around the world are awarded scholarships to the retreat each summer.

Nachman Reich, a student at Collège Français, is one of 26 outstanding North American high school students (and the only Canadian) awarded a 2013 Bronfman Youth Fellowship. This diverse group will spend five weeks of study and travel in Israel this summer, an intensive program, now in its 27th year, designed to develop future community leaders. Reich was class valedictorian in elementary and high school, and has been on the honour roll for five years in a row. An athlete, a debater, a performer and an entrepreneur, he writes for the student newspaper and has contributed to a chassidic website devoted to dialogue…

Vivianne Silver, who taught at John Abbott and Dawson Colleges for 43 years, is the new president of the Montreal Council of Women, an umbrella organization of some 70 voluntary groups, founded in 1893. Silver will be officially installed at the Council’s annual Friendship Tea on June 20 at the Jardin du Canal. Tickets, www.mcw-cfm.org…

Tribute will be paid to legendary German-born film director Marcel Ophuls, 85, at the 16th annual Montreal International Documentary Festival in November. A retrospective of his oeuvre, which include the World War II-themed The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus and Munich 1938, is scheduled. He’ll be in town for the fest.