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La Levina: Jewish Muse
Whenever I open my eyes, or close them, a goddess appears to excite me. No presence burns brighter in my imagination than the inimitable Ms. Naomi Levine. That she happens to be both my oldest friend...
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I Love Jew, Philip Roth
After reading that you’re ‘done’ writing. (Photo: Philip Roth in 2010. Credit: Nancy Crampton / Handou) Dear Philip, Like you, I grew up basting in the trauma, neuroses and antibiotic chicken soup of...
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Flesh-and-Blood (All Living Things, Part 2)
Here’s the Beef Ok, I lied. In this post about a guy I met who saw a deer road-killed on the highway, muscled its massive, hairy carcass into his trunk, butchered it outside his state-of-the-art...
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MAKE ART, NOT WAR: Meet Etgar Keret
I could be the only Montreal Jew I know who has avoided ‘going home’ to Israel, despite dangling freebie trips and subsidized holocaust-to-the-holy-land tours. It’s true I was a crack child-fundraiser...
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Love for All
I drop in to see my pal Ahmed at his antique shop slash junk store. Unlike Barak Obama, he is a Muslim and sports the post-Ramadan weight loss to prove it. Ahmed loves old stuff and artists; a...
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B-Mania
One day when I was 21, I walked out of my appartment to buy some bread, but entered a used-bookstore instead; stockpiled from ceiling to floor with reams of paper bound together by the human mind. Its...
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