By BERNIE BELLAN
Camp Massad Executive Director Danial Sprintz reports that this past summer has been one of the best ever for the Hebrew speaking camp.
By BERNIE BELLAN
The Jewish Federation put on quite the event commemorating the massacre of Yazidi refugees by ISIS two years ago, but one might welll ask: Did that event go a little overboard?
(JTA) – Yarden Gerbi became the first Israeli to medal at the Rio Olympics, bringing home a bronze in the women’s 63-kg judo competition.
By GERRY POSNER
There are times when you can tell at an early age that a particular person will rise to the top. Allison Weiss certainly fits that description. Allison, daughter of Lorne and Paulette Weiss, was on the ascent right from her days at Ramah Hebrew School.
By ANDREW TOBIN
JERUSALEM (JTA) – “Lone wolf” terrorism in Europe is making headlines around the world. But in Israel, the phenomenon of angry or troubled individuals taking up arms is old news.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
The oldest medical fraternity in the world, the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, has created a pro-bono dental service for Holocaust survivors.
Shalom Square, the Folklorama Israel pavilion, is set to open Sunday, July 31. We have a full 6-page supplement in the July 20 issue of the JP&N. Here is a look at this year's ambassadors.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
When Josh Morry (24) decided to take on an Asper School of Business student council role back in his last year at the school, he had one main goal in mind - to devise a strategy and implement a plan to stop Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) and proposed Boycott Divestment Sanction movement (BDS) functions.
By MYRON LOVE
Michael Eskin has become the first chazan in Canadian history to be inducted into the Order of Canada. But it is not for his chazanishe efforts that the creator of the CD “Mostly Genesis With a Little Exodus” – Torah stories put to music for children and families – that the Government of Canada has chosen to honour him.
By HARVEY ROSEN
When the phone rang at my humble abode in mid-June and the call-display read: “Dr. Errol Billinkoff,” I don’t know about you, but when I receive a phone call from a prominent medical doctor whom I have never before seen as a patient, I immediately suspect that it must be some kind of a referral from my regular GP at the Manitoba Clinic.
