By BERNIE BELLAN
Love after 70 – how difficult is it to find a partner when you’re single and over 70?
By BERNIE BELLAN
It was an eventful evening last Tuesday as the entire lower bowl of the Centennial Concert Hall was filled to capacity for this year’s Negev Gala.
By MARTIN ZEILIG
Throughout his four decade-long career as a psychiatrist, Michael Eleff, MD, FRCPC, has, as he says, always done a little bit of private practice in addition to his primary role as a staff psychiatrist at the Health Sciences Centre and teaching at the (newly renamed) Max Rady College of Medicine.
By MYRON LOVE
Two leading members of the medical profession in Winnipeg were recently honoured for their lifelong contributions to healthcare in Manitoba.
By MYRON LOVE
Doctors have figured prominently in Jewish history and Jewish doctors have played a major role in general society since time immemorial. In this, Manitoba is no exception.
By BERNIE BELLAN
When Professor John Barrett began to deliver his lecture on the results of the famed Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, which began in 1945 and concluded in 1949, it wasn’t readily apparent whether the audience gathered at this year’s Kanee lecture, held in the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue on Monday, May 16, was going to be given a complex dissertation that might be more in line with what one might hear at a lawyers’ convention… or something else.
By BERNIE BELLAN
Readers of The Jewish Post & News may be familiar with the long and circuitous process that has taken the members of the Gwen Secter Centre through an agonizing journey, wondering whether they would be forced to abandon their long-time home at 1588 Main Street.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
Russian-born Marc Chagall (1887-1985), known to most as an artist who created memory paintings, was a pioneer of modernism. In fact, Pablo Picasso proclaimed that, after Matisse, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.”
May 6, 2016: The Jewish community of Canada stands in solidarity with the victims of this unprecedented natural disaster in Canada.
By BERNIE BELLAN
The Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s final show of the season is an off-Broadway hit titled “Buyer & Cellar”, starring well-known Winnipeg actor and comedian Ryan James Miller (of the sketch comedy troupe, “Hot Thespian Action”.)
By MYRON LOVE
The closure of Eden Memorials at the end of January has left more than two dozen families in the lurch. These families are going to have to pay a second time for inscriptions on their stones as well as for bases and installations for which they had already pre-paid Eden Memorials.
By BERNIE BELLAN
There were many highlights in the Jewish Heritage Centre’s “Musical Legacy” program, which was held in the Berney Theatre on Monday evening, April 18, but the segment that left the most lasting impression on this writer was also probably the silliest.
