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‘Y
ou’ve gottaask yourself one question:
‘Do I feel lucky?’ ” That was Clint East-
wood speaking in the movieDirty Har-
ry. Eastwood must have felt lucky, be-
cause he ran for, and was elected, mayor of the
pretty seaside town of Carmel, Calif., (current
population 4,000) on this day in 1986. The Holly-
wood star ran because he had previously had a
clash with the town council of Carmel, where he’d
lived for 14 years, and wanted change. Carmel,
about 130 kilometres south of San Francisco, had
never seen such a voter turnout. Eastwood spent
US$40,000 on his campaign and received 2,votes, compared with the 799 for incumbent Char-
lotte Townsend, who spent US$3,000. Eastwood,
55 at the time and pulling in US$6-million a mo-
vie, attended every bi-weekly council meeting
while mayor, and donated his US$200 monthly
salary to charity. “There’s plain few problems can’t
be solved with a little sweat and hard work,” he
said inPale Rider. He got things done – more pub-
lic toilets, more stairways leading to the beach and
eliminating the town’s ban on selling ice cream.
He did not seek re-election in 1988. As he said in
Magnum Force, “A good man always knows his
limitations.”PHILIP KINGAPRIL8,CLINTEASTWOODBECOMES
MAYOROFCARMEL,CALIF.
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COYNEOPINIONFIRST
PERSON
The Canadian Jewish News is no
more. Already struggling finan-
cially, the country’s pre-eminent
Jewish newspaper was ultimate-
ly done in by the economic
downturn caused by the CO-
VID-19 pandemic. The tabloid is
to cease print and online oper-
ations after publishing its April 9
edition.
Considered the national voice
of Canada’s Jewish community,
the independently owned publi-
cation had a weekly circulation
of nearly 32,000 copies. In a let-
ter to CJN readers, the newspa-
per’s president, Elizabeth Wolfe,
said she had hoped the publica-
tion could “inform, console and
distract” readers isolated at
home. “It is with great regret that
we have realized that we will be
unable to do so.”
The newspaper’s staff was in-
formed of the decision over a
video conference call.
Although the World Health
Organization confirmed recently
that newspapers are safe to
touch, the medium is being hard
hit by the economy-paralyzing
COVID-19.
The CJN’s first publisher was
Meyer Joshua Nurenberger, an
immigrant from Europe via New
York who in January, 1960,
launched the paper with his
wife, concert pianist Dorothy Nu-
renberger.
The publication ran its news
operations from Toronto and
Montreal, with correspondents
across the country and in Israel.
Itsmandatewastoprovideits
readers with “news of the Jewishcommunity in Canada, Israel
and throughout the world” by
offering a “wide array of fea-
tures, commentary and opin-
ions, as well as weekly stories
and features on arts, travel, busi-
ness, campus life, sports and
health.”
In 1976, The Globe and Mail’s
then-editor, Richard Doyle,
wrote a tribute in the CJN.“I know of no other communi-
ty newspaper that consistently
deals in such a provocative way
with local, national and interna-
tional issues,” he wrote. “It catch-
es stories the metropolitan press
and news magazines have mis-
sed or neglected and it relates
them to concerns that are deeply
felt in Canada.”Its current online edition in-
cludes articles on an Hasidic
community outside Montreal
that was placed under quaran-
tine; Israel’s complete lockdown
on the eve of Passover; the suc-
cess in Canada of the Israel-
based SodaStream home-car-
bonation-machine company;
myths about salt; and a profile of
Elizabeth Leslie, a Canadian
dance-pop dark artist “whose
new music is about climate
change and her breakup with an
ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman.”
This isn’t the first time the CJN
has ceased publication. On April
22, 2013, the newspaper issued
termination notices to its 50 or
so staffers, and announced that
it would shut down after its June
20 edition that year because of
financial constraints.
The paper’s demise was short-
lived. By August, a leaner orga-
nization was putting out the CJN.
In early 2014, Ms. Wolfe was
named president of the reorga-
nized publication.
With that history in mind, Ms.
Wolfe in her open letter ex-
pressed hope that members of
the country’s Jewish community
would “recognize the need for a
national platform” and that a
new CJN would emerge.
But, in closing, the paper’s
president was less sanguine, bas-
ing her realizations on the bot-
tom line and the book of Eccle-
siastes.
“Please know that we have
done everything in our power to
continue the CJN for as long as
possible. It is with tears in my
eyes that I conclude: It had a
good run. Everything has its sea-
son. It is time.”TheCanadianJewishNewsclosesafter60years
BRADWHEELERThepublicationranits
newsoperationsfrom
TorontoandMontreal,
withcorrespondents
acrossthecountryand
inIsrael.Itsmandate
wastoprovideits
readerswith‘newsof
theJewishcommunity
inCanada,Israeland
throughouttheworld’
byofferinga‘widearray
offeatures,commentary
andopinions,aswellas
weeklystoriesand
featuresonarts,travel,
business,campuslife,
sportsandhealth.’JEFFREY
JONESOPINION