By MYRON LOVE On Friday, January 29th, Dolly Winston turned 105. To celebrate the occasion, the staff at the Fred Douglas Lodge – where she has been living for the past 16 months – threw her a party which was attended by her family and several dignitaries, including Mayor Brian Bowman and City Councillor Mike Pagtakhan.
Elsewhere on this website we have a story about a major reunion that is going to be held in Phoenix later this month. In the meantime we thought you might like to read this story by Evelyn Hecht about another major reunion of Winnipeggers that took place in Phoenix two years ago.
By BERNIE BELLAN
The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University will be undergoing a major reorganization of its Winnipeg operations in the near future. According to various sources, the office which the CFHU has had in the Corydon Village Mall will be closed as part of a cost-cutting measure.
By HARVEY ROSEN When I last spoke with hoopster Keenan Benarroch - back in early June, he was just approaching his 21st birthday. It was clear to me that he was a determined young man on a mission and I wrote a piece headlined: “This three-point shooting specialist could definitely use a shot in the arm.”
By GERRY POSNER Sometimes events shape people’s lives; more typically, it’s an individual that can and does change a life. With Rubin Todres, it was a place. That place: B’nai Brith Camp on Town Island in Lake of the Woods.
By MYRON LOVE In recent years, Saul Spitz has become the public face of north Winnipeg’s venerable House of Ashkenazi Synagogue. But Spitz wouldn’t be here if not for a split second decision he made in the spring of 1944.
By BERNIE BELLAN The imminent closing of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University office in Winnipeg is yet one more sign of the rapidly changing face of this city’s Jewish community.
By BERNIE BELLAN This past August we ran a story in which we described an interesting competition that the Adas Yeshurun-Herzlia Synagogue was holding. That competition was to produce designs for a “mehitzah” for the synagogue – and which would replace the existing mehitzah.
By BERNIE BELLAN Efforts by various Jewish organizations to provide aid for Yazidi refugees have continued to take shape within the past couple of months.
By BERNIE BELLAN I’m not especially keen on doing the kind of “looking back on the year that was” type of column that crops up in so many other publications this time of year.
