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| Zane Capalansky and truck |
The ever-enterprising delicatessen and food truck owner Zane Caplansky has sponsored an event at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival in August. Not all Jews and Palestinians hate each other he says. Caplansky calls the present situation heartbreaking and says he would like see the fighting stop. “Violence just begets violence,” he says. We can agree but many Jews say Hamas doesn’t care about the old truth. Caplansky says he is shocked and embarrassed that members of the local community have reacted negatively to his gesture of compassion and tolerance. Over the past decade or so, Caplansky has turned a tiny walk-up sandwich joint into a thriving smoked meat and similar food business, complete with a food truck he calls Thundering Thelma. This vehicle last appeared around here a couple of weeks ago at the Leaside Lawn Bowling Club where young madcap friends of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation played the gentle game and chomped smoked meat. See that here
