KEEPING THE FAITH IN TORONTO'S CORE...
MAKOM ("space" or "place" in Hebrew), a congregation that blends hipsterism and traditional Jewish orthodoxy, is REJUVENATING the area around Kensington Market.
THEY OFFER SEMINARS on urban homesteading, jam and chocolate making, beer brewing, composting, canning--all topics that appeal to a certain kind of progressive 20-to-45-year-old demographic. Makom's founder, Rabbi Aaron Levy, describes his congregation as a mix of young professionals, social-justice workers, artists and academics. Many are descended from families who moved out of the area 40 or 50 years ago. "Our programming is reflective of a downtown ethic: open-minded, politically progressive, diverse, inclusive, artistic, active," ...Jane Jacob devotees... "We think, like Jane Jacobs said, that new ideas need old buildings," Mr.Levy said.
"I THINK THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING. They don't find it in the shopping centres of the suburbs," said David Pinkus, the 86-year-old president of Bellevue Avenue's Kiever Synagogue.
THE DOWNTOWN CORE has the highest proportion of 25-to-44-year-olds in the city, the young people who form families and act as catalysts in a community.
by Joe Friesen, Toronto, JUDAISM, THE GLOBE AND MAIL - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2010
Email blwoodard@shaw.ca Spirituality is as diverse as the community it thrives in. BW
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A LONG, VIGOROUS AND ADVENTURE-FILLED LIFE...
Doris McCarthy, revered landscape painter, died November 25, four months after celebrating her 100th birthday --- born in Calgary on July 7, 1910.
"I have painted in every province in Canada, on purpose, because when I was 16, Arthur Lismer inspired me with the ambition to be a great painter of Canada, and I have been working at that goal ever since," she told The Globe in 2002.
Doris McCarthy had her own style. Deeply spiritual, she saw God everywhere, and her joyous expression of the forms that inspired her is what invites viewers into her world. She is also known for her liturgical art which includes the magnificent nativity creche she carved for St. Aiden's in the Beach, the Anglican church in which she was a lifelong member.
Art critic Sarah Milroy observed Doris as a woman utterly at ease with who she is, and with the life she has led (2004 profile). Doris McCarthy became one of the oldest graduates of the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus when she received her honours degree at age 79. She received the Order of Ontario and Order of Canada.
HER MANTRA WAS THE WORD "YES"...as she herself wrote: "I love the world. I love nature. I love creation. I love life."
by Paula Citron, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Saturday, November 27, 2010
Email blwoodard@shaw.ca -- Doris McCarthy, what an inspiration!! Do you have a story to share??
Doris McCarthy, revered landscape painter, died November 25, four months after celebrating her 100th birthday --- born in Calgary on July 7, 1910.
"I have painted in every province in Canada, on purpose, because when I was 16, Arthur Lismer inspired me with the ambition to be a great painter of Canada, and I have been working at that goal ever since," she told The Globe in 2002.
Doris McCarthy had her own style. Deeply spiritual, she saw God everywhere, and her joyous expression of the forms that inspired her is what invites viewers into her world. She is also known for her liturgical art which includes the magnificent nativity creche she carved for St. Aiden's in the Beach, the Anglican church in which she was a lifelong member.
Art critic Sarah Milroy observed Doris as a woman utterly at ease with who she is, and with the life she has led (2004 profile). Doris McCarthy became one of the oldest graduates of the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus when she received her honours degree at age 79. She received the Order of Ontario and Order of Canada.
HER MANTRA WAS THE WORD "YES"...as she herself wrote: "I love the world. I love nature. I love creation. I love life."
by Paula Citron, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Saturday, November 27, 2010
Email blwoodard@shaw.ca -- Doris McCarthy, what an inspiration!! Do you have a story to share??
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