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Toronto police are investigating after Willowdale MPP David Zimmer’s constituency office this week received a Bar Mitzvah greeting card containing antiJewish sentiments.

Officers at 32 Division confirmed they are looking into a complaint filed by Zimmer’s staff over the unsigned card received at the constituency office Monday.

Hand-written inside the card is the message “Jews Stink! ...and so does this Jewish greeting card ...and so does this stamp issued

by Canada Post.”

The card contains a Happy Hanukkah stamp with eight candles.

The same stamp was used to mail the card, which features the message “Especially for you!

On your Bar Mitzvah” with a Star of David on the front and the message “Congratulations and best wishes on your special day!” inside. >>>‘HATE, page 5

SKATING IN THE SQUARE: Judy Ash takes a twirl on the ice at Mel Lastman Square yesterday afternoon. The city will keep 14 outdoor rinks open for the duration of March Break, including four in North York. For more on March Break events, see page 17.

Earthquake donation will help Japanese youth LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com

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Two years after a “triple disaster” hit Japan, North York’s Japanese Canadian Cultural

Centre Foundation is donating $1.5 million to help the country recover from the devastation.

The money will help Japanese youth build their futures, foundation chair, Shari Hosaki,

announced at the centre’s Spring Festival on Saturday, March 2.

Eiji Yamamoto, the Consul General of Japan in Toronto, also spoke at the event, held at the

centre northeast of Don Mills Road and Wynford Drive.

The centre donated $100,000 to the Red Cross immediately following the triple disaster, which began with an earthquake

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or high school and elementary students and their families, the March Break is next week.

It’s a welcome opportunity to spend quality time with friends and family.

It’s also an opportunity to get to know your community a little better through volunteering.

We know multiple opportunities exist for citizens of all ages to get involved with a local organization, regardless of time of year. But a number of those organizations do have March Break-specific initiatives to consider.

And spaces are still available.

For example, the Daily Bread Food Bank is once again running a program in which high school students are invited to volunteer during regular business hours from March 11 to 15. It’s called the Take Action Project. our view This project, like many others, is an opportunity to establish Volunteering long-lasting community connections. vital part of A five-day period may be life in Toronto brief. But it’s long enough for a volunteer experience to make a lasting impression on potential future leaders as they glimpse some of the daily challenges those less fortunate face.

Registration is required. For more information, contact Lauren Fitzgerald, youth volunteer program co-ordinator, at learn@dailybread.ca or call 416-2030050, ext. 289.

Volunteer contributions make up a vital part of life in Toronto. Ensuring that our youth are active participants is a critically important part of that, particularly as our population ages. We need to ensure there is room for new energy and new perspectives.

The beauty of volunteering lies in its potentially limitless value. The giving of your time – even of a few hours – to a volunteer organization does not need to feel like an impersonal one-way transaction. Everyone can win in these kinds of partnerships: the volunteer, the organization and the people it serves.

That lasting impression for our youth can be a phone call or an email away. And volunteering can even be a family activity. We urge you as parents to consider the options with your school-aged youth. We urge students to take advantage of this opportunity to volunteer and learn more about their community.

Write us The North York Mirror welcomes letters of 400 words or less. All submissions must include name, address and a daytime telephone number for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit, condense or reject letters. Copyright in letters remains with the author but the publisher and affiliates may freely reproduce them in print, electronic or other forms. Letters can be sent to letters@ insidetoronto.com, or mailed to The North York Mirror, 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

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Mayor’s committee selections defensible To the editor: Re: An opportunity to be inclusive, Editorial, Feb. 22.

Regarding Councillor Adam Vaughan not getting a seat on the mayor’s executive committee.

I see no reason what-soever for the mayor to place anyone on the executive committee who does not fully support him. That would be akin to Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Premier Kathleen Wynne placing a New Democrat in their cabinets.

The fact that not a single councillor from Toronto-

East York Community Council sits or has sat on the executive committee since 2010 confirms my reference to provincial and federal cabinets.

Out of 12 councillors representing those wards, only Mary Fragedakis might have an outside chance of being considered.

The other 11 councillors all proudly claim leftist roots. Why would any politician surround themselves with the enemy? Mayor Rob Ford has already swallowed the bitter pill through Karen Stintz that it is not always a good idea to keep

I see no reason what-soever for the mayor to place anyone on the executive committee who does not fully support him. your friends close and your enemies even closer.

It is just too bad that there are so few conservatives on council from which Ford can select from.

But, that is par for the course as it is usually the people who are “socially engaged” that run for any political office, eventually.

Ford needs to surround himself with people who believe in his mandate and who are stricter conservatives than he is.

In that way, he may even be able to take on the appearance of being “inclusive” by comparison.

Toronto is spending annually a billion dollars more than it actually needs to run and manage this city, simply due to the leftist agendas of the past 15 years.

What Ford does not need is someone on his executive that loves to spend public money.

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Subway growth the necessary tonic for ailing transit system To the editor: Re: ‘Smart commute: ideas needed,’ Editorial, Feb. 28.

In the real world, Toronto is about 30 to 40 years behind the times for

implementing new transportation needs.

Your solutions are a dream that will never happen. No matter what the TTC may dream up or suggest, changes to people’s daily routines are

more or less fixed to their job requirements.

This great city of ours needs to quadruple the amount of subways to encompass the greater area of Toronto, for example two or three more east-

west lines and the same for north-south directions.

This is the only sane way to go. Let’s totally reject the former TTC chair Adam Giambrone ideas as he is out in left field.

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My view is people who send that kind of anonymous smut have their own issues.

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– MPP David Zimmer

“It is a distasteful thing by somebody who has obviously got some problems.

It’s a nasty piece of smut,” he said.

“It’s obviously somebody who has got some issue with Jews. My view is people who send that kind of anonymous smut have their own issues.

They may want to get some help and they’re cowards.”

Zimmer said the card did not leave him feeling threatened or fearful.

In addition to the police, his office alerted legislative security at Queen’s Park and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

Len Rudner, the centre’s

director of community relations and outreach, said he’s not surprised the card was sent anonymously.

“This is the equivalent of crawling from under a rock in the morning, peeing on somebody, and crawling back before you can be caught,” he said, adding the sentiment of the card is contemptible.

Rudner joked the cardsender went to time and expense to buy and mail a card containing an immature message to Zimmer’s office.

“The amount of time to... achieve this level of clarity, they may have had to buy five or six cards to get the message just right,” he said.

“It’s contemptible and laughable.”

The Jewish community does not need to waste any more time worrying about the incident, Rudner said.

“I feel much more comfortable saying this is a silly eruption of a silly mind,” he said.

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Staff Sgt. Frank Partridge said the police are taking the matter seriously.

“When police are called about hate crimes like this, we are relentless in tracking down these people,” he said.

“I think that’s a hate crime.”

The message may appear juvenile but often hate crimes suspects are “complete morons” who are not well-spoken, Partridge said.

“They go with what they’ve got going through their peanut brains,” he said.

Although a stamp issued

by Canada Post would be a national issue, Zimmer, a provincial politician, is wondering whether the culprit targetted him because he has a name that sounds possibly Jewish.

Zimmer is not Jewish.

He called the card offensive, a piece of garbage and juvenile.

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For those of us who’ve spent time with Layton and Chow, watching the couple’s last months and earlier days re-enacted so uncannily is extraordinarily moving.

It will be curious to see how the film is received by viewers outside the bubble of Toronto, and national politics. Because like it or not, Jack is more than a film about a politician.

Coming less than two years after Layton’s death, when Layton’s successor Thomas Mulcair is aiming to be prime minister in 2015, and Chow is likely considering a run for mayor in Toronto a year earlier, Jack is something of a rallying call for progressively inclined voters.

This, of course, is an

extension of what Layton clearly intended when he handed off his death-bed letter to Chow, and the rest of the country, with that stirring call toward optimism and love and kindness.

It is also an extension of his detailed instructions, delivered earlier in that same letter, telling his party how best to mobilize in the months following his death.

It’s tempting to be cynical on that basis and dismiss Jack as nothing more than an exercise in publicly funded NDP propaganda.

It would be easier to do that if the sometimes hokey idealism depicted in the film weren’t so accurate a reflection of how it manifested in the real lives of Layton and Chow; if the story of a generally decent, earnest and publicly motivated political couple who finally won and then lost again, weren’t the story we’d all lived through just two years past.

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Israel’s Changing Collective Identity WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: 416-487-3281, www.templesinai.net, education@templesinai.net COST: Free Religious and Ethnic Conflict among Jews in Israel WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: 416-487-3281, www.templesinai.net, education@templesinai.net COST: Free The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes and the Clock Maker

Ride the Miniature Train at Shops at Don Mills WHEN: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., March 9 to 17 WHERE: Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills Rd. CONTACT: Shops at Don Mills, 416-447-6087, ext. 244, http://www.shopsatdonmills. ca COST: $3 Net proceeds to the Toronto Fire Fighters’ Toy Drive.

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Toronto Diabetes Group WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge St. CONTACT: Anne Le-Quang, 416-408-7145, anne. le-quang@diabetes.ca COST: Free

Jewish Diabetes Chapter Meeting WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: The Pride of Israel Synagogue, 59 Lissom Cr. CONTACT: 416-4080177, jewishdiabeteschapter@rogers.com COST: $1

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Music of the Jewish Diaspora for String Quartet WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Avenue CONTACT: 416-487-3281, www. templesinai.net, education@templesinai. net COST: Free

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The Vilna Gaon: New Perspectives WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Beth David B’Nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue, 55 Yeomans Rd. CONTACT: 416-633-5500, www.bethdavid.com COST: Free Bridge and Euchre WHEN: Noon to 3:30 p.m. Fridays WHERE: Parkwoods United Church, 85 Parkwoods Village Dr. CONTACT: John, 416-447-2928; 416-4968705 COST: Free

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Centre donates $1.4 million >>>from page 1 3,000 missing and thousands homeless.

People are still living in temporary housing and face years of hardship before their communities fully recover, Hosaki told The Mirror.

She saw the conditions first-hand last month during a trip to Japan, which included visiting universities that will benefit from the foundation’s fund.

“The cleanup has gone pretty well, but now it’s rebuilding. And the human cost is enormous,” Hosaki said.

That’s where the centre’s additional $1.4 million, on top of the initial $100,000, comes in.

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T h e f i r s t i s t o t h re e regional government funds established to assist the educational needs of children affected by the disaster.

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youth to come to Canada for six-month periods to enhance their language and cultural skills.

“We’re really thrilled to be able to do this, to help the children in the area,” Hosaki said.

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The search in 31 Division netted two handguns, a replica handgun, a shotgun, 20 rounds of ammunition, a sword, and a quantity of drugs, police said, adding ammunition, drugs and other weap-

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Far left, Seneca Sting point guard Derek D’Jesus, centre, passes the ball in between Mohawk Mountaineers point guard Manny Campbell, right, and Taylor Dowhaniuk on Friday night during an Ontario Colleges Athletics Association basketball provincial championship semifinal at Seneca College. The Sting lost the match 87-78, and despite defeating George Brown in their next game, fell short of the bronze medal with a loss to Algonquin. Middle, Sting guard Felix Adjei, left, eyes the basket in front of Mountaineers point guard Manny Campbell. Right: Sting guard Vadim Hamilov, right, jumps to the basket in front of Mohawk forward Andrew Cicuttini.

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‘Jacob and Jack’ links generations in comedy

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ames Sherman’s comedy Jacob and Jack keeps the audience on its toes as it jumps back and forth between two generations.

Backstage scenes depicting Jacob Sherminsky, a star of the Yiddish theatre in the 1930s, are folded in with scenes of his grandson, Jack Shore, some 75 years later. Jack is preparing a special one-night-only performance that pays tribute to his grandfather, and we witness a number of parallels between the lives and the behaviors of both sets of performers.

The first half of the play chronicles the back-stage chaos as the actors prepare for their respective performances.

The second half takes place after the reportedly disastrous presentations with a good deal of door-slamming as the characters dash in and

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In the title roles, Jerrold Karch creates two distinct characterizations: the flamboyant Jacob whose passion for the theatre is matched only by his passion for his leading ladies, and the dedicated Jack, who faces his own challenges in both his profession and his marriage.

Leah Charney portrays the wives of both Jacob and Jack, pointing out that both men essentially married the same girl.

She brings just a hint of resigned acceptance to the role of Leah Sherminsky – knowing of her husband’s many infidelities – and a contemporary fire to the role of Jack’s wife Lisa.

Richard Hoffman doubles as Jacob’s tenacious agent and Jack’s vigilant stage manager, Abe.

Daniel Staseff portrays the first generation’s efficient and eager-to-please stage manager taking a different approach to each personality he meets.

Staseff also appears in the contemporary scenes as Moishe, a young ambitious performer anxious to make a good impression.

In this latter role he has some particularly fine scenes with Nicole Marie McCafferty as Robin, the nervous ingénue. McCafferty also appears as Rachel, the object of Jacob’s attempted conquest in the earlier scenes. The actress finds similarities in the roles that help her establish and maintain the two very different characters.

Gloria Valentine in the role of Esther provides the story with the missing link that connects the two generations. Her sparkling performance

as the stage mother Hannah in the earlier scenes is full of delicious little touches that light up the stage.

Ari Weisberg has worked with the cast and crew, particularly lighting designer Sylvia Farr, to ensure the split-second timings and costume changes are executed with military precision.

You do have to pay attention but it proves worthwhile as the comedy builds to a riotous conclusion.

Teatron’s production of Jacob and Jack plays in the Studio theatre at the Toronto Centre for the Arts through Sunday.

For tickets, visit www. teatrontheatre.com or call the box office at 416733-0545.

Veteran theatre reviewer Mark Andrew Lawrence offers his insights on stage and musical productions for The North York Mirror. Contact him at nym@ insidetoronto.com

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Toronto home sales decline in February Greater Toronto Area (GTA) realtors reported 5,759 sales through the TorontoMLS system in February 2013 – a decline of 15 per cent in comparison to February 2012.

It should be noted that 2012 was a leap year with one extra day in February. A 28 day yearover-year sales comparison resulted in a lesser decline of 10.5 per cent.

The average selling price for February 2013 was $510,580 – up two per cent in comparison to February 2012.

“The share of sales and dollar volume accounted for by luxury detached homes in the City of Toronto was lower this February compared to last. This contributed to a more modest pace of overall average price growth for the GTA as a whole,” says Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) President Ann Hannah.

“Stricter mortgage lending guidelines that precluded government backed mortgages on homes sold for over one million dollars and the City of Toronto’s additional upfront land transfer tax arguably played a role in the slower pace of luxury detached home sales.”

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Po l i c e s p o k e s p e r s o n Const. Hugh Smith said he and his team distributed brochures and reflective key tags to approximately 4,000 GO Transit commuters as part of the Do the Bright Thing awareness campaign that launched Monday at Union Station.

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“We don’t want to be told we’re doing something wrong,” said Smith late Monday morning from Union Station.

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