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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Honey and Barry Sherman’s son builds a hockey arena in their memory for Toronto’s Jewish community
Description: Construction has begun at the site of the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community campus in Vaughan, Ont. for the Honey and Barry Sherman Arena. The $52 million dollar arena–to be attached to the existing JCC complex–is a gift from their son Jonathan Sherman to the Toronto Jewish community.
The late Sherman’s three surviving daughters are not participating.
It would make the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto the only JCC in Canada, and in North America, to own its own indoor ice hockey arena. With two NHL-sized rinks, stands, dressing rooms and a kosher snack bar, the arena...