Our artists, potter Dorit Shelef, jeweler Rikki Blitt, and author Judie Oron, will be participating at the Women in Business event at Shalom Centre. A Joint Israeli and Canadian Jewish Women’s Initiative, Hosted by the Shalom Centre and honoring the success of Israeli and Canadian Jewish women and allowing them to present their work to [...]
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Our artist, Judie Oron, will launch her new book “Cry of the Giraffe”: Annick Press Ltd. invites you to the book launch of CRY OF THE GIRAFFE Based on a True Story by Judie Oron Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto Light refreshments. Books will [...]
Toronto woman takes in Ethiopian sisters By FRANCES KRAFT, Staff Reporter The Toronto Jewish News, Thursday, 02 September 2010 When Judie Oron, née Gillman, was a child growing up in Montreal, she learned that other Jews – “people with my genes” – had been massacred in the Holocaust.“It hit me hard,” she said in a [...]
Our artist Judie Oron has just published her book “Cry of the Giraffe“. ‘Cry of the Giraffe,’ (Annick Press, August, 2010), is based on the story of an Ethiopian Jewish teenager named Wuditu*, who, together with her younger sister, Lewteh*, was separated from her family in a violent incident in a refugee camp in Sudan. While the two [...]
