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Artistic liglit slilnes on JCC
This stained-glass pane reads the same in any language.
ALEX KLINER SOCIAL COLUMNIST
The word shalom in Hebrew is set prominently in the centre of the lovely stained-glass panel. It sits leaning against the window in the office of Jeannie Kamins, JCC cultural arts coordinator.
Jeannie tells me that the panel is the work of a Japanese artist, Kinuko Laskey, and is her gift to the Jewish community. I was curious about the last name. Jeannie said Kinuko had a Jewish husband.
Kinuko, I find, is a survivor of Hiroshima. A witness who was but 1.4 kilometres from the centre of the horrific blast. In her own suffering, Kinuko says, she feels an inextricable bond with the Jewish people.
As you walk by the JCC on 41st, try to notice Kinuko's s/ia/om panel. It's truly a beautiful piece of work, as it is a poignant expression of the heart.
Poking in antique shops along Main Street, Elaine and I stopped in at one on the comer of 11th Avenue that we hadn't seen before. We got to chatting with the owner, Eric Cohen. He and his wife, Judith, it seems, had recently picked up lock, stock and antique barrel and moved the business. Architectural Antiques, and themselves to Vancouver from Ottawa. Back east, we learned, the Cohens were famous for recovering and restoring, you guessed it, architectural antiques. As a matter of fact, they won several awards for architectural restorations, including the Architectural Conservation Award of Excellence from the city of Ottawa.
Their high-end heritage pieces include everything from elegant light fixtures to antique mantels, stained-glass doors and windows and even a few imposing pillars and posts.
I should mention Elaine and I did not make a purchase. Not that we didn't want to. But how do you shlep home a pillar or post?
Alex Kfiner has a varied background in theatre, education and community service.
Shalom has never looked more beautiful than in this window by Kinuko Laskey.
What do crystal glasswear and babysitters have in common? Chamber Music Festival director, Leila Getz, that's what.
You see. Black Angels, a unique work by George Crumb, requires 21 of the finest quality crystal glasswear. Leila has been asked to find them.
Then, three festival musicians who recently turned mothers will be arriving at concerts with babes as well as instruments. Does anyone happen to know a babysittier with a crystal collection?
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They couldn't ^ve me better than front row seats. I like close, especially when it's for one of my favorite pop singers — Neil Diamond. He's coming to GM Place late July for one night only.
Anyway, I can think of a time when Neil had more patches on his blue jeans than there was denim left to sew them on. Can you imagine his Yiddish mamehl How she felt for her nice Jewish son?
But times have changed. Neil now sports the finest jeans wath not a patch in sight. Unless, that is, it's a designer patch. Now this must give his mom naches (parental delight) and nothing but pleasure.
One thing, though, hasn't changed—Neil's feelin^iil voice, resplendent with cantonal qualities. That's what gives me pleasure. And that's why ni be tiiere on the first row.
Neil, I should add, is a blue jeans kind of a guy. He wears them. He sings about them. Remember his mega hit, "Forever in Blue Jeans?" It left him for-
ever in money.
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If you're going to be on Vancouver Island during July and early August, you may want to drop in at the Fourth Floor Galleries of the Victoria Eaton Centre. The JCC of Victoria is sponsoring Genesis ni there. It's an invitational art exhibition and sale representing 12 B.C. Jewish artists.
Although the artists are Jewish, the themes of the mixed media works will reflect a world of ideas and a large variety of subjects.
Participating artists include Melanie Circle, Dorothy Field, Diana Friedmann, Linda Frimer, Pnina Granirer, Lome Greenberg, Rachel Hellner, Cheryl Pagurek, Nora Patrich, Sophia Rosenberg, Jackie Saunders-Ritchie and Phyllis Serota.
Taybeh. A strange word, you say? It's the name of a Palestinian beer brewed in the West Bank. And what's more, it's already being sold in bars and restaurants in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and in the upscale Avi Ben Hquor stores in Jewish West Jerusalem.
And now for a Canadian connection to Taybeh. This all-natural beer is produced by state-of-the-art brewing equipment manufactured in our very own Canada.
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Earlier this year, in a three hour spree in the Jerusalem Mall, a group of Kazakhstan! diplomats spent $250,000 US. One diplomat spent $1,000 US. on candy and chocolate alone. Talk about a sweet tooth! □