Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Was Superman a Frat Boy?
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Beta-Sigma-Rho Man? The recent discovery of a 75-year-old pencil sketch by Superman creator Joe Shuster hints that Man of Steel’s origins have roots in a Toronto fraternity. The Ontario Jewish Archives in Toronto recently released an image of the circa-1937 drawing, which depicts a familiar caped figure with…
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Books Victor Navasky Knows an Anti-Semitic Cartoon
On the back flap of his new book, Victor Navasky is portrayed in a kinetic caricature by the illustrious Edward Sorel. It’s one clue about Navasky’s deep connection to political cartoons explored in “The Art of Controversy,” a personal history as well as learned survey of the form. The former editor and publisher of The…
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Life Designer Chat: How to Dress Orthodox Women?
Esther Goldberger’s fashion philosophy sounds almost sexy: “We should enjoy our clothes to the point we forget we’re wearing them.” But designs for Dellasuza, her three-month-old Montreal clothing label, take a less sultry approach. An Orthodox convert from Brazil, Goldberger creates clothing that fits specifications for tzniut, or modesty — with what she calls a…
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The Schmooze The Sculptures of Sorel Etrog
Sorel Etrog’s sculptures adorn Toronto street corners. He designed the Genie, Canada’s equivalent of an Academy Award. He collaborated with giants of 20th-century culture, from Samuel Beckett to Eugene Ionesco to Marshall McLuhan. Still, the 79-year-old artist has never won the attention or acclaim of his contemporaries. But a beautifully presented, carefully curated survey at…
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Opinion Will Walmart Swamp Toronto’s Jewish Heart?
Will Walmart’s arrival spell the end of Kensington Market, the quirky, vibrant Toronto neighborhood that housed most of the city’s Jews in the early 20th century? Locals think so. And more than 40,000 of them have signed a Change.org petition urging the city to reject a property developer’s proposal for a three-story mall whose anchor…
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Opinion Fire Island: Like Israel for Gays
“The Pines is to gay people what Israel is to Jews. It’s the spiritual homeland.” That’s how journalist-turned developer Andrew Kirtzman described The Pines, a largely gay male enclave on idyllic Fire Island, the 31-mile-long strip of land just south of Long Island, about a 1-1/2-hour drive east of New York City. “There’s just a…
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Opinion Hugo Chavez Protege Insists He’s a Jew
You can’t call me an anti-Semite. My grandparents were Jewish. That’s the message from newly elected Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, who rejected charges of anti-Semitism by revealing his Jewish roots in an interview with pro-government news site Apporea. But even if the Venezuelan president is a member of the tribe, some observers are questioning his…
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News Jewish Leaders Speak Out on Anti-Gay Murder in Greenwich Village
Jewish LGBT leaders are joining the chorus of condemnation around the West Village murder of a gay man over the weekend by a convicted felon who spouted homophobic slurs before pulling the trigger on his 32-year-old victim. Just steps from the historic Stonewall Inn, widely considered the birthplace of the modern gay-rights movement, Elliott Morales…
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