The CJN Daily
The girl who got a ‘Golden Buzzer’ Four years after her family moved from Tel Aviv to Richmond Hill, Ont., 15-year-old Maya Gamzu appeared on the third season of Canada’s Got Talent . For her audition, she wore a red string bracelet around her left wrist, which she brought from the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Kardinal Offishall, the rapper on the panel of judges (alongside Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh and Trish Stratus) put the Westmount Collegiate Institute student directly to the semi-finals after a performance of Christina Aguilera’s “Something’s Got a Hold On Me.” Maya, who started performing at age four, learned to sing in English before her family spoke the language. And while Maya didn’t reach the finals—to the dismay of her champion, Kardinal—she subsequently wowed the Toronto crowd at the Consulate General of Israel’s party for Yom ha-Atzmaut.
When rabbis cheer for your team
King David High School in Vancouver won the BC School Sports 1A Boys Basketball Provincial Tournament on March 11 with a 72-68 victory over the defending provincial champions, Unity Christian School. The game capped a successful five-year run for three star players: point guard Jesse Mill- man, shooting guard Ezra Heayie and centre Joseph Gabay, who wondered if they’d ever shoot hoops together again. But in playing for the province’s only Jewish high school, the King David Lions boasted something its rivals didn’t: rabbinical prayers of support in the stands.
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