Good news, fellow Toronto Jews. The world is not ending for us. Neil Diamond taught me this.

At the Mother’s Day matinee of A Beautiful Noise at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, I estimate the audience was 95% non-Jewish. The show itself was very Jewish, with some Yiddish, a l’chaim, and the theme that the singer’s angst expressed in his songs resulted from the fear and loneliness instilled in him by his parents from the antisemitism they experienced in Europe before coming to America.

2,000 people loved a musical about an obviously Jewish performer sharing a very Jewish........

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