Here I Am - Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
Jonathan Safran Foer is often considered one of the best young American Jewish novelists writing today, in the same league as Michael Chabon.
MONTREAL (JTA) — Montreal police are investigating a three-year-old video that shows an imam, Sayyed al-Ghitaoui at a local mosque calling on Allah to “destroy the accursed Jews” and to kill them “one by one.”
By MYRON LOVE
“American Idiot”, Kayla Gordon’s Winnipeg Studio Theatre’s upcoming new production - Feb 23 - March 5 at the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre – marks the professional stage debut for 19-year-old Josh Bellan, one of the younger members of our community. Fellow Jewish cast member Elliott Lazar, on the other hand, in his early 20s, is already a veteran both onstage and behind the scene.
By HARVEY ROSEN While sitting at my computer on Tuesday morning, the 7th of February, and already working on the sports column for the 15th of the month an e-mail popped up on my monitor that was short but not so sweet.
By MYRON LOVE For many years now, the Gray Academy has been organizing yearly Shabbatons in January for the high school students attending the school. Last year, Gray Academy teachers Sheppy Coodin and Avi Posen decided to raise the bar with a Shabbaton for young Jewish adults aged 18-26.
By BERNIE BELLAN
A while back I received an interesting email from someone who identified herself as Sara Gardner. In the course of corresponding with Sara I learned that she is a former Winnipegger -
By MYRON LOVE Some years ago, I read the memoirs of Western novelist Louis L’amour and one of his observations stood out for me. To paraphrase, an adventure is interesting to read about but damned difficult when experiencing it firsthand.
By BERNIE BELLAN The firing of St. Boniface Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hussam Azzam, only two months after he was hired led me to an extremely disturbing and surprising discovery about that doctor’s history of posting invective laden posts against Israel on social media.
By BRIAN PAULS Close counts, it is said – but only either in horseshoes or hand grenades.
A brilliantly organized interactive exhibition focusing on the virtual reconstruction of 25 of the more than 1000 synagogues destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacth has opened at the Mennonite Heritage Centre, 600 Shaftesbury Street.
On January 23, 2017, The Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre held its annual Centenarian Celebration honouring its residents 100 years of age and older.
BY REBECA KUROPATWA A unique class on Jewish Mindfulness, which just started this week at the Rady JCC, offers everything from self-care on a physical and emotional level, skills to choose to respond wisely (as opposed to reacting), and inspiring wisdom from Jewish sources.
