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Ellin speaks at “Ignite: Chanuka Adult Jewish Learning Night at the Prosserman JCC in Toronto

Ignite: Chanukah Adult Learning Night. Light Up Your Mind! 
Join us for a special adult learning event on the 4th night of Chanukah!
When? Saturday, December 16, 6:30 – 10:00 Where? Prosserman JCC


Registration opens at 6:30

7:00 Candle Lighting

Special Candle lighting ceremony with Song Shul's Cantor Simon Spiro and the Toronto Festival Singers! Chanukah refreshments provided. 
Choose two from the featured sessions:

7:30 – 8:30 Session 1
Rabbi Howard Morrison “Not the famous story from Hebrew School – The real story of Chanukah and its lessons for today”

Ruthie Ladovsky “United Bakers: the story behind Toronto's beloved oldest Jewish restaurant"

Ellin Bessner “Fighting Amalek: the 17,000 Canadian Jews who fought Hitler in WWll”*sponsored by OJA*

Batik workshop: discover the art of fabric dye using wax and special dyes

Ceramics workshop: make your own Chanukah Judaica! 


Ellin speaks to ‘Enlight: Passover Adult Learning Festival’ in Vaughan, Ontario on March 22, 2018 @ 8:30 p.m.

Schwartz Reisman Centre 9600 Bathurst Street, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

As Jews around the world prepare to observe the festival of Passover, Toronto author and journalist Ellin Bessner takes us back in time to seventy three years ago this month, during the darkest days of WWII. In her new book, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and WWII", Ellin tells the story of how Canadian Jewish troops brought Passover to the front lines, even as the battle raged to liberate Europe from Hitler's murderous regime. 

$18

Copyright © Ellin Bessner