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There’s a first. Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi, a professor with McGill University, became a bit of a celebrity earlier this year after becoming the first woman to win the coveted Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. She’s also one of its youngest recipients. Kaspi, however, is not comfortable with her celebrity status, since it’s really the science that matters. “I could talk for hours about neutron stars and black holes,” she says.
No more Caplansky’s? Yesterday was a typical day for Zane Caplansky, owner of Caplansky’s Deli in Toronto, until he received a call from his alarm company at around midnight. Upon arriving at his flagship store on College Street, the “Chief Fresser” discovered a notice to the tenant which claimed his lease had been terminated for “failing to effect repairs not authorized by the landlord.” He later posted the note to his Instagram account.
“I got no notice of this, I got no warning of this,” Caplansky told BlogTO. “I’m going to fight it.” Revisit him showing The CJN how to make his mean smoked meat knish below:
The Walking Golda. Tovah Feldshuh has starred in many roles – most recently in the Walking Dead and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – but none have resonated with the greater Jewish community like her one-woman show, Golda’s Balcony, where she plays former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. The show officially returned to Toronto yesterday, and will continue until the 19th. Take in our exclusive interview with Feldshuh below:
Meet FoldiMate, your favourite new member of the family. Thanks to the blossoming high-tech industry, there’s an app for practically everything, and appliances too. The latest is yet another offering of the Startup Nation: a device that will fold your clothes for you, and leave them neatly piled. While the FoldiMate has yet to be introduced to the market, people are very interested – 58,000 in fact. Furthermore, an introductory video on YouTube boasts a whopping 1.8 million views as of publication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNgjX0xHC8
A pothead’s take on “smoked” salmon. So Munchies has this video food series called Bong Appetit where host Abdullah Saeed meets with local chefs who infuse cannabis into their cooking. This week’s episode had a particularly Jewish theme: making a pot-infused Shabbat! Saeed meets with Rosenberg’s Bagels owner Josh Pollack in Denver (where weed is legal) to learn how to make smoked salmon and matzah ball soup – the pothead’s way. Just make sure you don’t serve it to your Bubbe and Zaidy, unless they’re into that kind of thing. Thanks to Trudeau, next year we’ll be able to host these kind of dinners too. Who are we kidding? We could host them right now.
Raising funds for important organizations, like ISIS and Hamas. American investment banker-turned-filmmaker Ami Horowitz uses satire to display the undeniable bias that exists on U.S. college campuses when it comes to Israel. In his guerilla-style mockumentaries, he’s gotten more positive reactions from students when waving the ISIS flag as opposed to the Israeli flag, and has even solicited donations for Hamas.
Horowitz’s ultimate goal is to “unmask UN obfuscation, anti-Semitism, bigotry and ignorance through humour.” He’s doing a good job so far. Watching the students he communicates with though, who entertain his calls to kill innocent Israelis on behalf of the Palestinian people, makes me shudder at what’s to come.
Jewish Jihadism. All of Bangladesh knows that Israel is actually behind the recent spate of killings that have either been blamed on – or claimed by – ISIS, or at least that’s what Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says. Khan says his country has become the target of an “international conspiracy,” and that the Zionists, of course, are to blame. “Utter drivel” is what Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon had to say about Khan’s claims. Utter drivel.
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