Annie can t believe her eyes The "Santa" in the mall looks so much like her grandfather s friend, Simon. A Jewish Santa? Annie lines up to get a closer look - and ends up "placing an order." Simon Greenbaum, flat broke, has taken the job at the Winter Castle to earn a few dollars between jobs. And after all, with his long white beard, he looks just like Santa already. "Don t breathe a word to your Zaideh that you saw me here," he says. "If you don t tell him that I m a Santa Claus, I won t tell him what you asked for. It s a deal?" When Annie s parents find out, however, that she has placed...
Annie can t believe her eyes The "Santa" in the mall looks so much like her grandfather s friend, Simon. A Jewish Santa? Annie lines up to get a clos...
Dora s father owns a dressmaking shop in the bustling garment district of Toronto in the 1940s. Every day after school, ten-year-old Dora runs to help her father in the shop. As she works, she dreams of being a designer herself and dressing the soberly attired mannequins in her own beautiful creations. In Dora s imaginings, the mannequins seem to urge her on in her fantasy as Dora s busy father pays scant attention to daughter s activities. One late afternoon after the shop has closed and while her father is working at his desk, Dora begins dressing up the mannequins. She uses remnants of...
Dora s father owns a dressmaking shop in the bustling garment district of Toronto in the 1940s. Every day after school, ten-year-old Dora runs to h...