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Demolition complete of old Chesed Shel Emes house – new building expected to be completed in 2021

final demolition of the "old house"

By BERNIE BELLAN
It was just over a little more than a year ago that the Chesed Shel Emes (the Winnipeg Jewish community’s burial society) launched a capital campaign, with the intent to build “a new facility to meet the needs of the Jewish community for many years to come,” an announcement in the May 10, 2019 issue of this paper said.

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Jewish organizations struggling with realities of dealing with unprecedented situation

kitchen staff at Gwen Secter

By BERNIE BELLAN
The impact that COVID-19 has had on Jewish organizations in Winnipeg has taken many forms.

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Simkin Centre staff have been doing a fabulous job dealing with the demands placed on them by COVID-19

neighbours on Dovercourt applaud Simkin residents

By BERNIE BELLAN
The role that Personal Care Homes have been playing in the COVID-19 pandemic is a crucial one.

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Why we'll be printing the paper again

Bernie newBy BERNIE BELLAN

Well, it’s been two months since most of us went into lockdown - and it’s still totally unclear when life might resume some sort of normalcy.

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Yiddish column - new book about Lucy Dawidowicz

Itay Zutra edited 2Nancy Sinkoff’s “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History”, is the intellectual biography of one of the most interesting Jewish historians specializing in the Holocaust and Eastern Europe.

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The late Tillie Goren believed she may have been able to influence the weather

The late Tillie Goren

By MYRON LOVE This story originally appeared in the March 25, 1992 issue of the JP&N. It recounts the incredible ability that the late Tillie Goren might have had to bring rain – and end droughts.

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Jewish Federation to provide emergency assistance for organizations - but why?

By BERNIE BELLAN A story in the Monday, April 27 issue of the Free Press says that the Jewish Federation has launched an emergency fund for organizations that have taken a financial hit as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jewish Child and Family Service offers counselling in these stressful times

By BERNIE BELLAN Jewish and Child Family Sevice is a multi-faceted organization providing services to individuals in a host of different areas.

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Holocaust survivor – and great boxer, Harry Haft

Harry Haft - Holocaust survivor...& fighter!

By MARTIN ZEILIG Harry Haft Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft is the firsthand testimony of the author’s father, Harry Haft , “a Holocaust survivor with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love,” noted an earlier commentary on the book.

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Palestinian COVID-19 response once again shines light on Palestinian leadership’s hypocrisy

Opinion by MYRON LOVE

The Palestinian leadership’s response to the COVID -19 situation once again highlights the double standards that said leadership follows in regard to its relationship with Israel. 

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More Than Six Acts of Antisemitism a Day, New Audit Reveals

Michael Mostyn, CEO, B'nai Brith Canada

April 27, 2020 While Jews were viciously attacked and/or killed in New York, New Jersey,California and Germany in 2019, the number of antisemitic incidents in Canada set records for a fourth consecutive year.

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13,400 Students in OpenDor Media's Global Trivia Challenge - 198 from Winnipeg

Avi Posen

The students, representing 204 institutions across six continents, are answering questions based on Israeli history curriculum. The program was the idea of Gray Academy teacher Avi Posen.

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Gifted teacher and chazan Avi Posen and wife make aliyah

Avi & Illana Posen

This story was first published in the Nov. 27, 2019 issue of The Jewish Post & News: The departure of Avi Posen and his wife, the former Illana Minuk, right after yom tov, can be best summed up as “Winnipeg’s loss is Israel’s gain”.

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Daniel Raiskin, music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, discusses his life - from his boyhood in Soviet Russia to his coming to Winnipeg and his admiration for the Jewish community here

Daniel Raiskin

By BERNIE BELLAN Daniel Raiskin has been the music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra since 2018. This paper has been remiss not to have interviewed Raiskin until now, although to be fair to ourselves, he is an extremely busy fellow,

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Looking back at the life of the late Rabbi Peretz Weitzman

Rabbi Peretz Weitzman, z'l

This story originally appeared in our paper in 2010:  Lodz-born rabbi celebrating 90th birthday
By PAUL LUNGEN  TORONTO – When Rabbi Peretz Weizman used to go on his customary walks down Main Street in Winnipeg,

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