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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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	Film festival to include doc on music impresario The North by Northeast (NXNE) Film Festival is scheduled to screen more than 40 movies in June, including several with some connection to the...read more...
	Israeli play has a personal side TORONTO — I sit in the coffee shop, and when my name is announced in a heavy Hebrew accent, I go to get my coffee. I’m waiting for three...read more...
	Sheridan College grad lands role in Rent In a way, budding actor Karina Bershteyn has Harry Potter to thank for her career choice. “It’s funny actually – the moment I...read more...
	Klezmer goes Latin at Laurentian retreat In its 17th edition, the KlezKanada Laurentian Retreat is looking southward to the wealth of klezmer music and other expressions of Yiddishkeit in...read more...
	Provocative Israeli photographer’s exhibit running in Toronto Adi Nes’ art is deliberate, methodical and designed to ensnare viewers with its provocative subject matter: namely, subtle, homoerotic images...read more...
	Yuk Yuks bringing laughs to Israel TORONTO — Canadian comedy club chain Yuk Yuks is sending a delegation of six comedians to Israel next month to spread some Canuck cheer and...read more...
	Bronfmans support emerging contemporary artists MONTREAL — Two fine arts students about to graduate in Montreal will be handsomely aided in making the transition from their studies to a...read more...
	Toronto Jewish Folk Choir to give spring concert In 1925, an era when Yiddish speakers numbered in the tens of thousands in Toronto, some local Jewish immigrant factory workers founded the Freiheit...read more...
	Toronto folk-rocker launches new album Evan Malach’s artistic alias is Stone/Angel. It’s a literal translation of his name into the Hebrew description of the words. It’s...read more...
	Author, illustrator Maurice Sendak dies Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," has died. Sendak, who wrote and illustrated...read more...