Camp Massad choir to take final curtain call

Some of the members of the Massad Alumni Choir: Standing: left to right: Adeena Lungen, Joel Braemer, D’Arcy Bruning Haid, Rob Waldman, Pam Appel, Debra Fleishman, Paula MacPherson, Miriam Baron. Seated on couch: left to right: Sharla Chochinov, Cindy Bass, Tracy Goltsman. Seated on floor, left to right: Laura Diamond, Shelley Werner, Janet Froelich.

By MYRON LOVE Miriam Baron and the Camp Massad Choir have chosen to lower the curtain for the last time on the popular choir that has been a regular feature of Winnipeg bar and bat mitzvahs for the past 25 years.

Canadian Armed Forces rabbi has long ties to the military

By MARTIN ZEILIG
Captain (Rabbi) Noteh Glogauer confesses that joining the Canadian Armed Forces was not that difficult a decision for him to make.
In fact, one could say it was destiny, or, in Yiddish, “beshert.”

Temple Shalom Rabbi Bill Tepper took interesting path to the rabbinate

By BERNIE BELLAN
It’s been a year and a half since Rabbi Bill Tepper began serving as rabbi for Temple Shalom Congregation. Like his immediate predecessor, Rabbi Karen Soria, Rabbi Tepper is a “fly-in rabbi”, coming to Winnipeg once a month, when he spends a four-day weekend here.

Rembering a great musician

Eli Herscovitch: “I might not be able to play my instruments, but I have a family!”
A personal reflection about musician Eli Herscovitch by KINZEY POSEN
It was Wednesday morning around 10:30 am, January 3rd and I was waiting outside in the car for my wife Shayla. Suddenly, Shayla opened the garage door to say Daniel Koulack just called.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By BELLE JARNIEWSKI

Every year, the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre holds events to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israeli comedian plays to two sold-out audiences at Berney Theatre

Considering how much this newspaper has been reporting upon the massive influx of Israelis into Winnipeg in the past 12 years, it should come as no surprise that many of those newcomers to Winnipeg wold be enthused to attend an event tailored precisely to their interests.

Simkin Centre honours nine centenarians

By BERNIE BELLAN (with material contributed by  the Simkin Centre)
On Monday, January 9, 2018, The Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre held its annual Centenarian Celebration to honour residents who are 100 years and older.

The judges

By MYRON LOVE
While our Jewish community has produced a great many judges in recent years, there are two who stand out – two who have gone where no other Jewish Winnipeggers have gone before.

So - if the 2016 census says that the number of individuals who say their ethnic origin is Jewish has radically declined, is there a possibility the census was actually correct?

By BERNIE BELLAN
By now, there have been quite a few reports (including in our own paper)  suggesting that  the most recent Canadian census (2016) has badly undercounted the number of individuals who would regard themselves as Jews - at least by ethnicity, if not by religion. (Note, however: Saying your ethnic origin is Jewish doesn’t necessarily mean that you consider yourself Jewish. It might simply be an observation about your ancestry.)

Elliotte Friedman has become Mr. Versatility

By HARVEY ROSEN When it comes down to the wonderful world of sports, we all have our preferences. Some of us prefer hockey over baseball, while others lean towards football over basketball.

Ninety-plus-year-old Gordon Pullan's idea of semi-retirement: not working evenings and weekends

By MYRON LOVE The legendary Harry Walsh used to refer to himself as Canada’s oldest working lawyer. Walsh passed away in 2011 at the age of 97 and he was still going into the office almost to the end.

How Israeli intelligence agencies have been neutralizing financial sources of terrorism

Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
Elsewhere on this website I referred to a book that I had just finished reading, and which I said that I would review.  Although it has a much longer title than simply Harpoon (Harpoon Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters) I will refer to it in this review as Harpoon.