John Chisling, a resident of Prince Edward County, Ontario arranged for the memorial stone in honour of the downed Canadian Jewish airman who was killed in action over Germany in March 1945.
If Jack Tweyman had been a resident of Toronto’s Sunnybrook Veterans hospital, the Toronto veteran of the Second World War would have likely been vaccinated against COVID-19 months ago. But Tweyman, 101, is still well enough to live independently in the same North York apartment he shared with his late wife. During the pandemic, the retired taxi driver has been relying on family and a caregiver to survive isolation safely.
After the slow rollout of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccination system, a relieved Tweyman received his first dose of the vaccine on Saturday morning.
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, I was honoured to be able to pay tribute during a virtual tour…
How Canadian Jewish servicemen celebrated Purim in Montreal in 1944.
Tickets are still available for the event: Friday 11thNovember 2016 “How Canada’s Jews Fought WWII” Remembrance Day Service, Shabbat…
It’s been one year exactly since I received the green light from my college, Centennial College, in Toronto, to take…
It is fitting, in so many ways, that this week marked the 73rd anniversary of the disastrous Allied raid on…
My story from 1994 about the 50th anniversary veterans’ trip to Italy, Montreal Gazette. News that Canada’s Department of Veterans…