Thursday. July 30,1987 — THE BULLETIN — 9
Robert Edel Photos
ALTHOUGH SUMMER WEATHER backont ut to slow d6wn,^thjngsjaro still hopping around tho community. Below, a summer youth group danceat Beth TIkvah with brightly dad, well-tanned teens. At right, the new dome of Temple^ ^ Sholom^takes shape dramatically above the heads of landscape architect pomella Hahn Oberiander,whoUf tanked on the left by Louis Winkler, project manager, and on the right by architect Richard Henriquez.
Marpslchdrdist will perform at Beth Israel on Aug. 6
Bar-Mitzvah memoir
Joshua Bender, a grade seven student at L*Ecole Bilingue, read this piece at the Fine Arts Finale^ a parents* evening ^ at the school. He wrote it during an extra-curricular ' creative writing class taught by Susan Broatch, who reported that several of the Jewish fathers remarked that the writer **really captured the mixture of trepidation and pride they all went through at their own Bar-^Mit^vahs; his memories triggered theirs.** Joshua i^ the son of Sarah Bender and Pr. Arnold Bender. _' "
By JOSHUA BENDER
Oh, Fm so-o-'o nervous. It is my Bar-Mitzvah day and it*s 9 a.m., 15 minutes before it starts.
Here come ail my relatives from Toronto ... Seattle ... Vancouver. ; . and here comes my teacher! It will probably start soon. Here come the Rabbis and the Gantor(singer). Uh oh, it is 9:15.
My teacher, sitting beside me on the A'ma (stage), ushers me to the stand.
"Start, start . . .*' they whisper. 1 open my mouth and out comes . . .Wow! My voice is better than I thought! 1 had better concentrate on chanting this simple Hebrew prayer. Whew! It's finished.
A few minutes later^ I go and do another prayer . . . this is easier than I thought! Here come some more relatives ... more prayers...
Well, it*s 10:30 ajnv^nd.the | synagogue is pretty full. Most of the people have come to see BENDER ME! That makes me more nervous . .. but think of all the presents Til get!
Here comes. . . Mr. Raoul! So ... he didn't forget. It is nice of him to come. Alec Richardson and Benji Craster are here also. " " I
Huh? OlF^my mind just wandered off ..; the Rabbis are
taking the Torah Scroll out of the HblyArk'. That means my~big part is coming up.
Phew! I just finished chanting my long partj and I barely made any mistakes! (Out of the corner of my eye I saw my grandma crying.) My friends were trying to make me laugh!
Well, the Rabbi i^ making a long speech about the^orah part. It is about 11 a.m. and . . .oh, the Rabbi is finished. All the people who have v4//>'o/ (honors) are coming up to read the Torah.
First, a man I don't know; then my grandfather, then my Uncle Harvey; then my Uncle Max, then my, father, then two people I don't know, and finally my Uncle Howard.
When that is finished, the Rabbi talks a little more; then he' calls me up to say my little speech about the next portion I am about to do. I read it well, I guess. (My grandma is still crying.) : :Now my big portion. My mother and father are holding the scroll open for me so lean read it I madea couple of mistajces, but otherwise I did pretty well! (My grandma is crying even more.) ' -
Well, it is almost over. It is 11:45 a.m. and a lady who is our friend made a short, niice speech about me, and presented me with a certificate and a cup.
Right now I am singing the last prayer with my brother Stuart and my cousin Randy. Phew! It's over.
I suppose it was a success. I guess everybody is going to kiss me... and pinch my cheek'sl^, .and my grandma is going to cry ... and everybody is going to say how big I'm getting and how great I did, and hug me . . . and ...
International comedy fast a first for Vancouver
Vancouver performers Brian Linds and Leslie Mil-diner, and director Dennis JFoon; Manitoba's Al Sim- , mons; Alberta's playwright ' Jeffrey Hirschfield; Americans Charles Senack, Stan Sinberg, The Duck's Breath -Mystery^ theatre. The Sak theatre; and Vancouver's Theatre^v Sports league are some of the stars of Vancouver's First International Gomedy Festival hosted by Granville Island July 31 -Aug. 9.
The Festival, originally conceived by Chris Wooten, is currently under the direction of Jane Howard Baker who was director of street entertainment for Expo 86.
The international array of 50 performers will include many of the street acts which
Shut ordered rebuilt
BONN — Adass Israel cemetery in East Berlin, almost completely destroyed by the Nazis, will be rebuilt at . the direct orders of East German leader Eric Honecker. JTA.
KOSHER GOURMET
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Other dishses include lamb in cassis sauce, sweetbreads flambeed with liquor^ veal with truffle sauce and veal kidneys flambeed with brandy. One can even have a Chateaubriand, sliced at the table and served with no less than three sauces — Gharan, Bearnaise and Bordelaise.
Kosher gourmets cannot find such a cornucopia of culinary delights anywhere else in the world, and gourmets, in general, will feel quite at home here.
Desserts at Cow on the Roof are appropriately impressive, but light. Listed are Tistachio ice cream with-^^ sabayon sa4ice, made at your table,'a choice of sorbets, and~^' crepes filled with exotic fruit. Other desserts are pear souffle and chocolate souffle. The profiteroles come with pine--apple and ice cream, and are served with a hot chocolate sauce.
The above, only a partial list, is an indication of the incredible progress Israel has made in the field of gourmet cuisine.- A tour for gourmets cannot be far away.
made their West Coast debuts on the Expo site last summer. They will entertain on free outdoor stages on the Island and in front of paying audiences in the Waterfront and Arts Club Revue theatres and in Isadora's restaurant.
"The Festival.is a celebration of comedy in all its diverse forms," said Howard Baker.
It is: being presented in cooperation with the man« agement and trust of Granville Island using funding from three levels of government and private corporations.
■ Tickets for the inside shows are now on sale at theatres on the Island and at VTC/CBO outlets. For information call 604-736-0883. . G.P.
IsraeH harpsichordist Gideon Meir, grandson of former Israeli Prune Muiister
_^Golda Meir, will give a performance and talk on Aug. 6 at Beth Israel synagogue at 8
' p.m.
The evening is sponsored by the Jewish Festival of The Arts Society, Beth Israel, the Canadian Zionist Federation and the Vancouver Society for Early Music.
Meir will be coming to Vancouver following his appearance as a member of the staff of Oregon Harpsichord week in Portland. Besides performing tyo works by Louis Couperin, three sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and a piece by J.S. Bach, Meir will speak about Jewish musicians in the Baroque period and music in Israel today and at earlier times.
Born into a n^usical family in 1952 in Tel Aviv, Meir's interest in the harpsichord and its unique music began when he was five years old. He listened to his father's record collection which included recordings of Wanda Lan-dowska playing the instrument.
"1 fell in love with the sound of the harpsichord and the music of Scarlatti and Bach." And although he knew that there were harpsichords to be, seen in museums, **I didn't know it was possible to have one as a household instrument."
Meir began piano lessons at the age of seven. And while he played his two favorite composers on the piano, **I always kept it in my mind that it was music for the harpsichord. I was always frustrated about not having one."
MEIR
When he was 17 his grandmother, Golda Meir, bought him a harpsichord kit and it became a family project to build it. " '
Because there was no one teaching harpsichord in Israel, Meir went to London, England, in 1980 to study with Maggie Cole.
In 1985 he began studying with Laurette Goldberg {JWB Sept. 15, 1986) at the San Francisco Conservatoiy of Music and later became her teaching assistant.
Tickets for the concert and talk are available at the office of the Jewish Festival of The Arts Society and at the door on the evening of the performance. There is a discount for seniors and students.
Following the performance refreshments will be served and the audience will have the opportunity toiheei the ariikt.r For information call 266-0245.
G.P.
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