By Lauren Kramer
She’s been an artist for 50 years but it wasn’t until the last decade that Joy Caros began painting the portraits of the Israeli presidents and prime ministers. Last month she donated them to the Canadian Friends of Hebrew University, and those portraits, which arrived in Israel a couple of weeks ago, will [...]

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By Paul Shindman
There are a hundred ways to rank the success of a hockey tournament, but you’d have a hard time finding a more amazing set of circumstances that what we have this week in Israel.
The 4th annual Israel Recreational Hockey Tournament started today. It’s only three days long with six teams, but with two [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Paul Henderson is probably the most famous Canadian hockey personality of the 20th century.
And even more so for the Jews.
A year before the historic 1972 Canada-USSR hockey summit, I remember when the entire Jewish community of Toronto marched against the visit of the Soviet foreign minister (Kosygin, for you history buffs). We were [...]

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