Rabbi Elina Bykova

Rabbi Elina Bykova

Rabbi Elina Bykova A rabbi caters to a diverse flock A gay couple joins in breaking the glass at the conclusion of their wedding. A lesbian couple signs the ketubah before a dual Jewish/Catholic ceremony with a rabbi and priest officiating. Parents who can’t afford...
DooWop

DooWop

Doo-wop Dom dom dom dom dom bedooby dom Can you imagine a group of teenage boys getting together to sing harmony in  school and community centre basements and on street corners? It didn’t matter if it was cold. They’d fill a steel drum – they called it a fire...
Saving Private Brubeck

Saving Private Brubeck

Saving Private Brubeck How a little-known soldier saved jazz giant Dave Brubeck Pvt. Ray Wax landed on Normandy Beach 21 days after the invasion. D-21. The war had moved on. Wax was in General Patton’s Third Army, the Lucky Rear. Wax had got himself assigned from the...
Joe Foster paints the homeless

Joe Foster paints the homeless

Joe Foster paints the homeless Smith Falls Ont., artist befriends his models Artist Joe Foster was sitting in church one Sunday morning when the minister asked for volunteers to help pass out meals to the homeless at a local mission. “I felt I needed to give back to...
The Bagg Street Klezmer Band

The Bagg Street Klezmer Band

The Bagg Street Klezmer Band Klezmer is Jewish history set to music, a mixture of joy and sadness The klezmer music of the Bagg Street Klezmer Band fills the warm August night air at the Trudeau Park bandshell in Côte Saint Luc, QC. Rick Goldman, Bagg Street Band...