Dorothy Lipovenko
By Dorothy Lipovenko
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Culture When Kindness Counts, a Dinner To Say Thanks
The buffet dinner hummed with a festive air: plates of fragrant chicken; amiable chatter; little gifts of scented soap and candles, opened with unrestrained glee. But then things turned quiet, and serious, when Rivka Rita Ittleman stepped forward to thank her guests — “my angels.” Circling the room, she named the 20 women, one by…
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News An Unlikely Place To Pray
It’s a synagogue that opens its doors but once a year. Here, at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, a sunlit space used for medical seminars on mending the body is transformed — for three days, at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — into a sanctuary to comfort the soul. In this congregation — a mix of…
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News Giving New Meaning to ‘Less Is More’
It has neither the quiet sophistication of a samovar nor the humble rumble of a rolling pin. But is there a cooking utensil with a more Yiddishe soul than the hakmeser, the indispensable hand-held chopping knife whose seamless crossing from shtetl to New World is still in evidence today? Of all the gizmos in my…
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