Cyclists ride to raise funds for Beit Halochem

Over 100 Canadian cyclists participated in the recent Courage in Motion (CIM) bike ride, held to help disabled Israeli veterans.

Discussion about Jewish food leads to some frank talk about the Simkin Centre

By BERNIE BELLAN

It was billed as a program devoted to a discussion of Jewish food, to be held in the Multipurpose Room of the Asper Campus the evening of November 19. But - the program turned into something far more than simply a discussion of favourite Jewish foods.
Titled “What’s for Dinner?” the evening was intended to introduce the latest project of the  Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada.

Young Jewish performer Josh Bellan one of stars of new Winnipeg Studio Theatre production

By MYRON LOVE
Those of us of a certain age may recall the cult classic “Reefer Madness”. The 1936 film was intended to scare young people out of trying marijuana – which has also been known as “grass”, “weed”, “pot” and “reefer”.

Steven Schipper to be 2019 JNF Negev Gala Honouree

(Provided by the JNF) The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Branch is thrilled to announce its 2019 Negev Gala Honouree: Mr. Steven Schipper, Former Artistic Director of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.

The best football player in Canada

By SCOTT TAYLOR

Winnipeg Blue Bombers 31-year-old runningback, Andrew Harris, is the best football player in Canada. I won’t even argue the point. Say anything you like. Go ahead, bring up Adam Bighill. You’ll still get no argument, just contradiction.

You think kids are too closely guarded nowadays? Read this story about a 12-year-old girl hitchhiking to Wpg. Beach in 1945!

By FREDA GLOW
A recent article in the paper caught my eye. It was about a Winnipeg woman who was scolded by Child and Family Services for allowing her two children aged seven and three years old, to go shopping at the bake shop around the corner.

Learning to live with allergies

Living with allergies can add a lot of stress to everyday life. This is something Winnipeg-born and raised, Samara Carroll, had to learn from a very young age.

After living in L.A. since 1964, Tammy Lazer (David Steinberg's sister) has returned home

Although she and her husband, Harry, and their two children, Hart and Shelley, moved to Los Angeles, California back in 1964, Tammy (née Steinberg) Lazer has always considered herself a true Winnipegger.

Congregation Etz Chayim sells HSBA Gardens

By MYRON LOVE
“It was strictly a business decision,” says Jonathan Buchwald, the executive director of Congregation Etz Chayim, of the congregation board’s decision to sell the HSBA Gardens, one of three low-rent north end seniors apartment blocks that the synagogue owns.

Young entrepreneur Jordan Zwingerman creates community space for ideas, individual re-invention

By MYRON LOVE 

Jordan Zwingerman wants to help you realize your (perhaps) secret ambition and make your dreams come true.

Russian-speaking Winnipeggers band together on Facebook to help someone struck with cancer

New Rady JCC group fitness instructor Liad Batia Libatter a former member of IDF

By MEACHELLE BELLAN

Here we are again, before Chanukah and latkes and the holiday festivities that are starting on December 2nd.