Helen Weinzweig: From Pain to Prose

Helen Weinzweig: From Pain to Prose

In this second installment of a three-part blog series on Helen Weinzweig, Rhoda Rabinowitz Green writes about traumatic experiences of Helen’s childhood, her growing awareness of thwarted self-fullfilment and her search for identity, and how they are revealed...
What would Helen Say?

What would Helen Say?

Rhoda Rabinowitz Green, author of Aspects of Nature, writes about the legacy of Governor General’s Award Winning author Helen Weinzweig, the writing process, intellectual curiosity, aging, and finding one’s hochma (wisdom). If I tell you, how will you know? The...

Perhaps Women Should Take Over! (March 8th, 2016)

Nasreen Pejvack, author of “Amity” on the sham of war, women’s roles in the world, and a new agenda for peace.“Woman, who dares to avow her horror of war, her pity for the victims, for all victims.”  (A passage from Marcelle Capy;...

The Holy Mango

Zoë S. Roy, author of Calls Across the Pacific, reflects on Mao Zedong, “VIP fruit”, and the power of fiction. One day when I walked past Spadina Avenue in Toronto, piled mangos in yellow and orange on a fruit stand caught my eye. A memory of a sacred...