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FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, MARIANNA ROTH (LEFT) HAS GAINEDnotice as one of Montreal's finest providers of kosher food. Here sheand her team at Côte St. Luc Kosher prepare for Chanukah with somedelicious latkes and donuts. Pictured with Marianna, left to right, areBilly Gerontakos, Wing Wah Li, co-owner, butcher Avi Brook andClaudia Levine. See Eye in Montreal page 6 for more.

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remains undeclared and talks takeplace away from public view. Indeedsources suggest that Saudi Arabiahas even agreed to open its air spaceto the IAF

Some in Israel worry thatSaudi Arabia and its Gulf State allieswould not hesitate to turn on Israelshould circumstances in Iran change.They argue that the Israeli-GulfStates link could be a fleeting one ifthe nuclear threat from Iran fades.

We share the belief, however,that consultation between Israel andthe Sunni axis will continue to growand that both sides recognize thebenefits of long-term strategic andeven economic cooperation. Whilethe United States fiddles on Iran,while Obama’s “red lines” in Syriaare shown to be mere rhetoric, Israelhas proven to the Gulf States that itis no paper tiger. Sunni nations seeIsrael’s destruction of Syria’s nuclearprogram in 2007, its war againstHezbollah in 2006 and againstHamas in 2009 and 2012, and itsassaults on Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah weapons stockpiling asevidence of a willingness to act whilethe current occupant of the WhiteHouse holds up the white flag.“There is a lot of cynicism”, saysMishaal al Gergawi, a United ArabEmirates analyst, “and it feeds intothe notion that Obama is naive...hewas naive with the MuslimBrotherhood, naive with Bashar al-Assad and he is now naive withIran”. The Saudis may not, as theIranian government official Englishlanguage press told readers sarcasti-cally, be advocating a merger of thetwo countries into Saudi Israeliawith the state religion of Zio-Wahabbism. But it just might not bethat far fetched to suggest that thesounds of Hatikva will, in the nottoo distant future, be heard inRiyadh’s halls of power.

It is often assumed that Israelis alone in its refusal to accept atface value Iranian president HassanRouhani’s all out PR offensive. It isBenjamin Netanyahu who warnsagainst the “P5 plus 1” negotiatingthe “deal of the century” for Iran. Itis Israel that scolds the UnitedStates for “folding” on Iran.

But the fact is that many ofIsrael’s neighbours also fear thatthe “P5 plus 1” will fall for a “pret-ty face”. Sunni Gulf States - SaudiArabia, Bahrain, the United ArabEmirates, Qatar - share Israel’sconcern that the United States andothers will be making a “grave mis-take” if they are gullible enough tobelieve that Iran now subscribesto the same moral code as dodecent men and civilized nations.These countries have “joined”Israel in asking how civilizednations can sit, basically witharms folded, while Iran’s nuclearambitions go unchecked, threaten-ing regional and world stabilityand leading inevitably to a Shiitehegemony in the Middle East.Along with the region’s minorities -Kurds, Christians, Druse, Sufisand Baluchis - Sunni nations seeIsrael as the only country preparedto make Iran pay for its folly. It isIsrael, Sunni states have come tothe realization, that has the mili-tary power to prevent the MiddleEast from becoming helots of theAyatollahs and their “bloodthirsty,baby-eating Shiite monsters”.

The shared interests of Israeland the Sunni Arab gulf states donot mean that formal diplomaticrelations are imminent. ThePalestinian issue will likely have tobe resolved before the gulf statescan be seen sitting at the same tablewith the Israelis. But consultationson security and intelligence issuescont inue , e v en i f t h e a l l i ance

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tualls had desecratedHungary’s national symbolslike the Holy Crown of St,Stephen, the country’s firstChristian king.”

But then Szegedihad a long conversationwith his grandmother whospoke to him about her fam-ily’s Orthodox Jewish past.“It was then that it dawnedon me that my grandmotheris Jewish”, the far rightpolitician told HungarianTV. “I asked her how thedeportations happened. Shewas in Auschwitz andDachau and she was theonly survivor in the extend-ed family”.

In 2012 Szegedi, bythen having resigned fromthe Jobbik party althoughstill sitting in the Europeanparliament as an indepen-dent, met with Rabbi SlomoKoves of Hungary’sO r t h o d o x C h a b a d -

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And His Jewish Brides

In 1968 legendaryBeatle Paul McCartney hadan affair with FrancieSchwartz, an aspiringAmerican screenwriter.McCartney at the time wasengaged to June Asher buthis affair with Francieended that relationship.

From Schwartz andAsher McCartney moved onto Linda Eastman whom hemarried in 1969. The cou-ple remained together untilEastman’s death in 1998.Eastman’s father Lee wasan entertainment lawyerwho represented McCartneyafter Brian Epstein, theBeetles long time mangerbut of no relation, passedaway. Linda’s brother Johnlater took over from Lee and

Lubavitch community tobegin the “difficult and spir-itually stressful” healingprocess. He admitted tobeing treated by some Jews“like a leper” when he beganattending synagogue. Buthe has persisted, learningHebrew and studying thebasic principles of Judaism.“It is changed everything”,says Szegedi. “I had this setvalue system until I was 30and I had to admit that itwas all wrong and to findthe will to change”.

Szegedi, now 31, iskeeping the Sabbath and istrying to observe the laws ofKashrut. He believes he canreconcile his conservativeviewpoints as a Hungarianand as an observant Jew.Rabbi Koves is optimisticthe process, though difficultand “spiritually stressful”will end in a “positive man-ner”,

AN IMPORTANT REMEMBRANCE DAY DEDICATION CEREMONY TOOK PLACE AT THE BARON DEHirsch-Back River Cemetery on de la Savane. In addition to the annual Remembrance Day service,this year’s service marked the inscription of 577 new names to a freshly installed monument Thenames were compiled and supplied by Canadian Jewish Congress. Rabbi Moishe New was the offi-ciating Rabbi. The community owes a special thanks to Larry Rosenthal, who "initiated" the project toenhance the existing monument with the addition of the names of all known Canadian Jewish casu-alties. It was through his encouragement - and unflagging persistence - that the new panels wereinstalled; Ya'acov Bauer, a co-Board member of B'nai B'rith Quebec, recited El Moley Rachamin, thePrayer for our Martyrs.

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Former Anti-Semite

Embraces Judaism

Csanad Szegedi wasonce a rising star inHungary’s far right Jobbikparty, And like all partymembers he did not hidehis anti-Semitic views. Heaccused Jews of “buyingup” the country. He blamedthe large scale polarizationof state assets after the endof communism on “people inthe Hungarian political elitewho shielded themselves intheir Jewishness”. He com-plained of “massive realestate purchases beingdone in Hungary, where, it’sno secret, they want tobring in Israeli residents”.“The problem the radicalright has with the Jews”,Szegedi told state televisionin 2010, “was that Jewishartists, actors and intellec-

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The consultation onBDS presently being con-ducted by the MethodistChurch of Great Britaincould have very serious con-sequences and, for those ofus keen to develop greaterawareness across the faith-ful in both Judaism andChristianity, is a matter ofgrave concern.

For fifteen years Ihave been a member of theCouncil of Christians andJews and earlier this year asmall number of us foundedMethodist Friends ofJudaism. We had come tobelieve it necessary to focusm o r e s h a r p l y o n t h e

Methodist/Jewish relation-ship in Great Britain. Wesimply intended to buildbridges and cross them toshake hands, maybe evenembrace, but certainly,given the opportunity, toenter into dialogue.

Our aims are as fol-lows:

• To celebrate thecontribution of Judaism tonot only Christianity but

also to the world at large.• To raise awareness

of the historic and continu-ing presence of anti-Judaism within theChristian Church.

• To challenge anti-Semitism in whatever guiseit manifests itself.

We are also chargedwith carrying out activitiesappropriate to the deliveryof these aims.

We were and remainkeen to fulfil our aimswhich are theological, his-torical and cultural, notpolitical in any partisansense. It was never ourintention to becomeembroiled in debate onIsrael Palestine; but I guessit was inevitable!

So, following anotice of motion at the 2013Methodist Conference call-ing on the church to drawup a report that presentsthe arguments for andagainst BDS, a number ofus became part of the con-sultation.

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SMALL GROUP OF METHODISTS SPEAKS OUT AGAINST BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS

By REVEREND BRUCE THOMPSON

Reverend Thompson is chairman of theLinconshire Methodist District in the UnitedKingdom. The article appeared originally in TheJerusalem Post and is reprinted by here by per-mission of the author. The Editor


INFORMATION WAR ISRAEL CREATES NEW WEBSITE TO COUNTER HIZBULLAH PROPAGANDA

By LINDA GRADSTEIN, MEDIA LINE

If you click on theIsraeli army’s newHizbullah website, you willsee a red and black logothat reads, “Hizbullah,Army of Terror.” The site isa combination of graphics,text and videos, all focusingon the Lebanese-based,Iran-proxy terrorist organi-zation and its leader,Sheikh Hassan Na’srallah.

One link refers backto what Israelis call theSecond Lebanon War of2006, and in fact, the sitewas launched on the sev-enth anniversary of that 34-day war between Hizbullahand Israel that was trig-gered by a cross-border raidby Hizbullah fighters that

left eight Israeli soldiersdead and two captured. Itended with a United Nations– brokered cease-fire.

The website warnsthat Hizbullah today isstronger than ever.

“Seven years later,Hizbullah has developedcapabilities to strike any-where in Israel,” it says.

A neon-green graph-ic that follows the textshows the differentweapons Hizbullah now hasin its arsenal and how fareach one is able to reach.The missile with the longestrange, the Scud-D, cantravel more than 430 miles,potentially penetrating deepinto Egypt and Saudi Arabia

as well as Israel, as well astargeting American militaryassets in the region.

“Since the war,Hizbullah has tripled thesize of its missile arsenal,”the website says. “In 2009,an IDF intelligence reportrevealed that Hizbullah hadbuilt close to 1,000 militaryfacilities throughout south-ern Lebanon. The installa-tions included more than550 weapons bunkers and300 underground facilities.Since the report’s release,Hizbullah has continued tobuild facilities in the region,enhancing its ability tostrike at nearby Israelitowns and cities.”

The webs i te says

that Israel is in more dangerthan ever before“Hizbullah’s weapons arecapable of causing far moresubstantial damage than its2006 arsenal,” the websitecontinues. “With its currentabilities, Hizbullah is capa-ble of bombarding Israelwith continuous, preciseattacks over an extendedperiod of time.”

The website is theproduct of Israel’s newinteractive media branch, aspin-off from the IDFSpokesman’s Unit.Lieutenant Colonel AvitalLeibovich, the head of thenew branch, says some 30soldiers work there, and put



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CSL KOSHER ISCOOKING: Avi Brook,Marianna Roth and theirteam from Côte Saint-LucKosher (www.cslkosher.com),featured on the front page ofthis edition of The JewishStandard, are cooking up astorm once again forChanukah. Prior to the hol-iday, Mrs. Roth baked herfamous Chanukah latkesand sugar donuts andhanded them out to themany regular customerswho come through the doorsix days a week at 5533Westminster at the corner ofCôte Saint-Luc Road.

Côte Saint-LucKosher Meat Market hasbeen servicing the palatesof Jewish Montrealers fordecades. Here you will finda wonderful array of koshermeat and ready to servehealthy meals made the dayyou pick them up. You canchoose from items such aschicken schnitzel, Chinesedishes, chicken burgers,roasted chicken, brisket,salads, soups and muchmore. Avi the butcher isthe son-in-law of Mrs. Roth,a legend of 50 plus years inthe business. The support-ing cast includes peoplelike Billy Gerontakos,Claudia Levine and WingWah Li. These days CôteSaint-Luc Kosher can notonly pride itself on havingquality meat, but also thepremier kosher cuisine inthe city. Their store is spa-cious and whether you area longtime customer orsomeone dropping by forthe first time, the team willalways make you feel athome. Just call 514-481-4094 and look for them onFacebook.

MEETING COTLER:The Secondary V studentsat Herzliah High School inMontreal got to spend sometime with Liberal Member ofParliament for Mount RoyalIrwin Cotler recently.Professor Cotler, a critic forrights and freedoms andinternational justice inParliament, shared hisviews about Jewish valuesand the pursuit of jus-tice. He clearly under-scored the importance ofdefending Israel in the cam-pus context today. As anadded bonus, Mr. Cotler'sChief of Staff, HowardLiebman, class of '90,opened the event by statingthat he was thrilled to beback at Herzliah, his almamater. He credited theschool for setting him onthis path to where he istoday. The lecture was thefirst of many that areplanned for the 85Secondary V studentswhose academic programincludes a course on IsraelAdvocacy taught by RadioShalom’s Howard Silbiger.

S O F T B A L LCHAMPS: The Shaare ZionLions are the 2013Champions of the MSSL(Montreal SynagogueSoftball League) for the fifthyear in a row. In a thrillingand exciting two out of threefinal series against theTBDJays, the Lions lost thefirst game 5-4 to a youngerand hungrier Jays team.With their backs to the wall,the Lions came from behindand took Game Two 13-10.And in the sudden deathGame Three final atTrudeau Park in Côte Saint-Luc, the Lions battled the

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NO HAPPY MEALMCDONALD’S DECISION STIRS CONTROVERSY

By LINDA GRADSTEIN, MEDIA LINEWhen it comes to

Israel and the Palestinians,everything, even a ham-burger, is political. Israeliswho live in areas that Israelacquired in 1967 are up inarms over McDonald’s deci-sion not to open a branch inthe mall that will be built inAriel over the next year.

In Israel, theMcDonald’s franchise is pri-vate and is owned by OmriPadan, one of the foundersof the dovish group PeaceNow, which opposes Israelibuilding in post-1967areas. There are 170McDonald’s restaurants inIsrael, about 40 of whichare kosher. The company’swebsite claims it is thelargest employer of youth in

zens should support thosechains with Zionist values.

Others went evenfurther.

“I urge the public toboycott anyone who boy-cotts it,” Housing MinisterUri Ariel said. “Only thenwill they get the messageand the boycotts will stop.”

Oppenheimer ofPeace Now reacted sharplysaying Padan’s decision isnot a boycott.

“Nobody is sayingthat “settlers” are notallowed to buy McDonald’s,”he said, referring to Israeliswho live in post-1967 areas.“You can’t fault him for notbuilding in a place theydon’t want to remain part of


Israel, giving jobs to 3000teenagers, along with 1000adults.

Padan declined togive an interview to TheMedia Line but his officesent a one-line reply.

“This has alwaysbeen the policy of Dr. OmriPadan,” referring to thedecision not to open restau-rants in Ariel, the GolanHeights, which Israel cap-tured from Syria in 1967, oreven East Jerusalem, whichIsrael has annexed.

Some in Israel wel-comed Padan’s decision “Inevery democratic countryeveryone has the right todecide where to live andwhere to open his busi-ness,” Yariv Oppenheimer,

the director general of PeaceNow told The Media Line.“Padan did not want to takepart in “settlement” activity.He thinks the “settlements”are damaging to Israel andwe agree.”

Some right-wingleaders disagreed.

Settler leader YigalDilmony said that while hedoesn’t support boycottsconsumers should vote withtheir wallets.

“Every citizen whocares about the state ofIsrael should think beforehe buys a burger who is hefinancing?” Dilmony askedThe Media Line. “BurgerRanch (a rival local Israelichain) said they will open inthe new mall. Israeli citi-

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For me BDS clearlyfits Sharansky’s ‘three Ds’for anti-Semitism; delegit-imizing, double standardsand demonizing the state ofIsrael. It is therefore diffi-cult for anyone supportingBDS to avoid the charge ofanti-Semitism. It is clearthat singling out the onlyJewish state in the world forsuch action is utterly repre-

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hensible and blatantlyimmoral.

It is extraordinarythat at a time when the civilwar in Syria is costing thelives of tens of thousands,when ancient Christiancommunities are being per-secuted and destroyed,when there is so muchinjustice in the region, letalone across the globe, thatanyone should considerboycotting the only Jewishstate in the world.

During the 60thanniversary commemora-tion of the liberation ofAuschwitz the then BritishPrime Minister Tony Blairsaid that the Holocaustbegan not with gas cham-bers but broken shop win-dows. Members of the BDSmovement have protestedoutside shops simplybecause they are owned byJews. This is not the sort ofaction any of us shouldallow without the strongestpossible condemnation.

I am reminded of aJew who walked on roadsmade by slave labour with-out apparent reference tothem; he certainly didn’tboycott them. I am remind-ed of a Jew who warnedagainst making judgmentsof others without acknowl-edging our own faults. It isthe teaching of that Jewthat I seek to follow.

It is highly fashion-able to don a keffiyeh in theWest and sign petitionsagainst Israel. But none ofthis is new. Nor is tellinglies about Jews. In everygeneration anti-Semitismhas found different ways ofexpressing itself. For manycenturies of course it wasreligiously based. Postenlightenment it becameracially based. Today it ispolitically based. Othershave more eloquentlydescribed it as a virus thatmutates each time a versionof it is seen for what it is.

There is a wonderfulstory about a conversation

from the time of theVietnam War between HenryKissinger and the preacherWilliam Sloane Coffin.Following an attack on the

conduct of the warKissinger responded bychallenging Coffin to tellh im what he wou ld do

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make it as interactive aspossible. You can see it isuser friendly and you caneasily access different partsof the site.”

The website alsoincludes animations andvideos showing howHizbullah uses civilianhomes from which tolaunch weapons. It waslaunched as Israel hasundertaken a campaignto convince more of theinternational communityto define Hizbullah as aterrorist organization.Seven states, includingthe US and Israel alreadydefine Hizbullah thatway.

Leibovich says theinteractive media branchhas gained a large followingwith 340,000 followers onFacebook and more than 35million page views onYouTube.

“This initiativeshows the military has toadapt to a new media warzone which is interactivemedia,” Leibovich said.

A similar website onHamas is currently beingplanned. The Hizbullahwebsite can be found athttp://www.idfblog.com/hezbollah/

out content in English,Hebrew, Arabic, French,Spanish and Russian. Twoof the soldiers, she says, arenative Egyptians whomoved to Israel about sevenyears ago.

“This is the firsttime a military invests insuch a platform using con-fidential information.”Leibovich told The MediaLine. “When informationwill be interesting and highquality it will create a buzzabout Hizbullah, and raiseawareness about this orga-nization that is sitting onour border with 60,000rockets [pointed in Israel’sdirection].”

Leibovich said someof the information camefrom classified sources,including combat intelli-gence troops based on theLebanese border.

On the other side ofthe border, however,Lebanese journalists werenot impressed with the web-site.

“This is the kind ofinformation that any personcan get on the web,” FaridChedid, the editor ofLebanon Wire told TheMedia Line. “There is noth-ing new – it’s just a compi-lation of anti-Hizbullah pro-paganda that we have allseen before”.

In Lebanon, Chedidsays, Hizbullah is seen asan Iranian proxy, but it alsoruns a network of schoolsand clinics, providingsalaries to thousands ofLebanese and social ser-vices to many more peoplein need.

The website was puttogether by Pvt. GabrielFreund, 25, an immigrantto Israel from Australia witha background in computergraphics.

“We tried to tell thestory of the terrorist organi-zation Hizbullah to theworld in a way that is easyto share,” Freund told TheMedia Line. “We tried to

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given the circumstancesand Coffin replied, “Sir, myjob is to say to you ‘let jus-tice roll down like mightywaters.’ Your job is to getthe plumbing in place.”

The Israel Palestineconflict has challenged thegreatest diplomatic mindsfor decades and it is not for

those at a distance toengage in the plumbingnecessary for justice andpeace to flow. Campaignerscan be as prophetic as theylike but when they do notreside in a country theyshould leave the gover-nance of that country wellalone.

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Israel.”The dispute erupted

as US Secretary of StateJohn Kerry arrived in theregion for yet anotherattempt to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.Palestinians say that all ofthe areas that Israelacquired in 1967 mustbecome part of thePalestinian state and all330,000 Jewish residentsthere must leave. Israelsays it wants to hold ontowhat it calls “settlementblocs” including Ariel.

“I think the decisionnot to open a McDonald’shere is a mistake and hurtsa large population,” Arielmayor Eliezer Shaviro toldThe Media Line. “Any kindof boycott is a mistake andcauses more division.”

Shaviro says resi-dents are trying hard forcoexistence with theirPalestinian neighbors.

“In our industrialzone we have factorieswhere Israelis andPalestinians work togetherand Palestinians make fivetimes what they would inNablus or Ramallah,” hesaid, referring to two nearbyPalestinian towns. “If thereis a boycott on Ariel, thesefactories might have to fireworkers, and thePalestinians will join thecycle of violence instead ofthe “cycle of income.”

It is not the firsttime that Ariel, whichboasts a university of13,000 students, bothArabs and Jews, has beenin the news. In 2011, 165academics said they wouldnot participate in academicfunctions at Ariel Universitybecause it sits on post 1967



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actors Dustin Hoffman andMeg Ryan cancelledappearances in Israel as aprotest gesture. Othershave rejected the boycottcalls. Barbra Streisandplayed to tens of thousandsof enraptured fans in Juneand Alicia Keys appearedover the summer.∅15

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dozens of actors said theywould not participate in cul-tural events there.

Israelis are especial-ly sensitive to boycotts asthe country has recentlybeen the target of entertain-ers and academics.Recently, physicist StevenHawking pulled out of aconference to protestIsrael’s policy toward thePalestinians.

The Boycott,Divestment and Sanctions(BDS) movement hasstepped up activity anddozens of artists includingmusician Elvis Costello and

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If you like amuse-ment parks, Vancouver’sPacific National Exhibition(www.pne.ca) on EastHastings Street is the placeto go. The 15 acre PlaylandAmusement Park is a popu-lar attraction. Open fromlate April through the end ofSeptember it has hostedmillions of thrill seekers ofall ages since it opened in1910. The Park was named"Happy Land" in 1926 andremained on the originalsite until 1958, when it wasmoved to its present spotand re-opened under thename Playland. Playland'smarquee attraction, thebeloved 1958 Wooden RollerCoaster, remains the mostpopular ride on the site andone of the most highlyregarded wooden coastersin the world. Designed bythe legendary ride construc-tion team, Carl Phare andWalker LeRoy, the PlaylandWooden Coaster rides overhalf a million people annu-

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The Sandbar servesup the freshest seafood in awarm, sophisticated atmos-phere. Suspended above thebar in the Teredo Lounge isKivi, a 24 foot salmon trollerhand built by Allan Farrell,one of the West Coast’sfinest craftsman of woodenboats. Fresh oyster bar,tapas, Hoshi's Sushi Bar,dinner and dancing, this isreported to be Vancouver'smost popular spot to seeand be seen.




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OVER 250 PEOPLE RECENTLY ATTENDED A photographic art exhibit organized by the Lianeand Danny Taran Foundation benefitting theCummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation.Held at the Art for Charities Gallery in the Town ofMount Royal, over $20,000 was raised in supportof seniors in need. The Cummings Centre was thefirst of a number of charities to receive supportfrom the philanthropic efforts of the Liane andDanny Taran Foundation ‘Art for Charities’ pro-gram. “We were thrilled that the Cummings Centrewas able to benefit from the generosity of theLiane and Danny Taran Foundation,” saidCummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundationpresident Bram Besner. “Danny and Liane arevery generous philanthropists. Funds that wereraised will be able to help those who are less for-tunate and the most vulnerable.” The Art ofCharities Gallery, located at 8170 Montview, Suite100 in the Town of Mount Royal is open to the pub-lic Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm. For moreinformation, contact Cathy Simons at 514.342.1234loca l 7229 o r v i s i t cummingscen t re . o r g . Pictured above, left to right, are Cummings JewishCentre for Seniors Foundation Director CathySimons, Danny and Liane Taran and CummingsJewish Centre for Seniors Executive Director HerbFinkelberg.

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remained McCartney’s man-ager for many years.

But McCartney wasnot finished with Jewishwomen. His latest wife isNancy Shevel l whom he

married the day after YomKippur in 2011. During therecent High Holidays thecouple attended services atthe Liberal Jewish syna-gogue in St John’s Wood,near their home and closeto Abbey Road Studioswhere the Beetles recordedmany of their songs.Rumours persist thatMcCartney is consideringconverting to Judaism buthe has not done so yet.

Paul McCartney,however, is not the onlyBeetle to enjoy long termrelationships with Jewishwomen. Ringo Starr recent-ly celebrated 32 years ofmarriage with one timeBond girl and Playboymodel Barbara Bach, bornBarbara Goldbach, fromQueen’s New York.

Paul McCartneycontinues to entertainaudiences around the worldand, unlike some of his fel-low singers, has refused tojoin in a boycott of Israel.

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Margot Friedlanderwas 21 when the Gestapoarrested her family. Margot,however, had gone out. Shereturned as the Nazis werepreparing to leave. Shecovered her Jewish star andwalked past her house as ifshe were heading home toher German family. For thenext 13 months, with dyedhair and her crucifix on dis-play Margot Friedlander,with the help 16 righteousGermans, managed toevade the Germans. InApril of 1944,she emergedfrom a bomb shelter, wascaptured by the Germans,admitted she was Jewishand was sent toTheresienstadt.

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But in the late1990s Margot had a changeof heart. Her husbandpassed away in 1997 andshe began writer a memoir.It was entitled “Try to Makea Life”, her mother’s partingmessage to her. Germandocumentary producerThomas Halaczinsky, wholives in New York, heardFriedlander read from hermemoirs and asked her if hecould do a documentary onher life. But doing the doc-umentary required a returnto Berlin.

In 2003, at the ageof 82, Margot Friedlanderagreed to return to Berlin.The work on the documen-tary, called “Don’t Call ItNostalgia”, made her feel “Iwas home again”. And, so ,despite the fact that herfriends in New York urged

her to reconsider, threeyears ago, at age 89,Friedlander moved back toBerlin.

Now, she shares herstory with Germanteenagers. “I want them toknow how I felt, what I wasthinking, what happened inthe house when the Gestapocame for my brother”, shesays. “The feeling of ahuman being who has expe-rienced this - that is what Iwant to impress on them”.And she adds that the six-teen Germans who hid her“did not know me. I wascared for by good people,even though they did notknow me”.

Friedlander’s loyaltyto Germany does have onelimitation. When she pass-es away, she wants to bereturned to the UnitedStates to be buried with herlate husband.

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