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Entries from April 2009

Canada Pirouetting to Tel Aviv’s 100th

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

By Lauren Kramer
When Tel Aviv celebrates its 100th anniversary in June, Canada will be there. Canada’s ballerinas, at any rate.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal will be performing in the Holy Land for the first time ever, as part of a three-week international tour that will also take the dancers to Egypt, Slovenia and Germany.
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Tags: Art

Happy Birthday Israel!

April 29th, 2009 · No Comments

By Staff,
As Israel celebrates her 61st birthday, we encourage you to participate in Live Hatikva later today.   You can watch a live streaming of the event at Jewish Life TV or join in in the festivities in your own city.
On May 7, 2008, The Guinness Book of World Records certifited that “The most people singing [...]

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Tags: Music

Learning About Israel’s Flanders Fields

April 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

By Karin Kloosterman
Every year on November 11th my mother would give me a poppy to wear to school. As I got older, I thought it wasn’t cool, and opted to do the minimum: standing on guard for those two minutes of silence as we remembered the people who fought in the world wars for “Canada’s [...]

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Tags: Religion