The CJN’s Honourable Menschen: Remembering the politically embattled Patti Starr, referee Harry Davis and other late influential Canadian Jews

JL;DR SUMMARY The CJN honors influential Canadian Jews who recently passed away, including figures like Patti Starr involved in a political scandal, Harry Davis the boxing referee, Jack Prince who survived the Holocaust, engineer Alexander Eisen, Rabbi Dovid Schochet of Chabad Lubavitch in Toronto, and women's rights advocate Lita-Rose Betcherman. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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