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.
By RHONDA PREPES Carli Rothman will present “Dirty Little Secret: Addiction in the Jewish Community” on Sunday March 5th at 4:00 p.m. at this year’s Limmud Winnipeg at the Asper Jewish Community Campus.
By MYRON LOVE Winnipeg has been experiencing a renaissance in recent years, as exemplified by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and many major projects underway downtown, Harvey Secter notes.
By BERNIE BELLAN Becky Chisick has been in her job as the new executive director of Gwen Secter Centre at Syd Glow Place for a little over a month.
Click on this video link to see a heart-warming story about how a letter JP&N columnist Gerry Posner wrote to his hockey idol Red Kelly over 55 years ago resurfaced and led to Gerry's actually meeting Red: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/letter-red-kelly-story/
The following story is being updated on a regular basis as new information comes to light about what led to the Chief Medical Officer of St. Boniface Hospital being fired on January 20.
By BERNIE BELLAN We’ve been reporting on the slide in enrolment at the Gray Academy over the past four years: from 625 in 2012 to 486 this past September (a 22% drop).
By BERNIE BELLAN
(Originally posted Jan. 5; updated Jan. 29) It started with three former schoolmates who attended Talmud Torah (Winnipeg Hebrew School) and Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate deciding to form a Facebook group back in July of this year known as “1950s Winnipeg Talmud Torah and Peretz School students (and others)”.
By MYRON LOVE Kayla Gordon is best known in our community for her lifelong work in theatre.
Ed. note: We had posted a story about an event organized by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada back in December about the period in the life of the late Rabbi Zalman Schachter when he lived in Winnipeg. That story can be read elsewhere on this website at http://jewishpostandnews.ca/local/2224-the-late-rabbi-zalman-schachter-s-time-in-winnipeg-recalled-at-lively-evening-hosted-by-jewish-heritage-centre. That particular story elicited a response from the family of the late Rabbi Schachter:
