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.
By BELLE JARNIEWSKI
Every year, the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre holds events to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By MYRON LOVE Laurel Malkin, who was elevated to the position of president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg at the Federation’s AGM on December 7, is wasting no time introducing herself to the community.
By BERNIE BELLAN
It’s been a little more than two years since the Federal Liberals became the governing party of Canada’s House of Commons. Jim Carr, the Member for Winnipeg South Centre, is now Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources – a portfolio he has held since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formed his first Cabinet.
By BERNIE BELLAN
An interesting discussion about the situation of the Jewish population of France took place Wednesday evening, December 6th, at the River Heights Community Centre. Once again, as seems to be the case so often these days, the discussion was organized jointly by Winnipeg Friends of Israel and Bridges for Peace.
The following was submitted by Operation Ezra - a program sponsored by many different organizations which has been bringing Yazidi refugees here since 2015:
By BERNIE BELLAN
I have to admit: Knowing Justice Rosalie Abella’s reputation as a staunch (small “l”) liberal, and someone who has long championed the judiciary’s expanding the notion of “rights” in Canadian society, I was hesitant to ask her a question in which I was going to quote from a recent article by Conrad Black, in which he directly challenged the notion that our courts should be advancing rights.
By MYRON LOVE
On Wednesday, November 29, over 120 people friends, colleagues and others that Shelley Faintuch has worked with over the years attended a farewell reception in the foyer of the Berney Theatre for the soon-to-be former Community Relations Director who is leaving her post on December 15.
Ed. note: This article was initially written Nov. 17. By Nov. 20, partly as a result of exchanges of information I had with a spokesperson for the WRHA, a decision that had been taken by the WRHA to cancel funding for security at the Simkin Centre as of Nov. 1 has now been postponed until March 31, 2018. This article details the chronology of what happened.
By BERNIE BELLAN
On Monday, Nov. 13 we were informed by one of our readers that a major change had happened at the Simkin Centre: 24-hour security had been cut back to only 12 hours a day and the phone number to the security desk was no longer in service.
By BERNIE BELLAN
As much as it was interesting to hear Dr. Bryan Schwartz, Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba, expound upon the significance of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration at an event held Monday, November 27th, what was also noteworthy about this particular event was the size – and nature, of the crowd that turned out.
By GERRY POSNER
Recently, my wife and I were privileged to be in Winnipeg to attend the induction (or, as the ceremony was called, the “installation”) of two new rabbis at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue: Rabbi Anibal Mass and Rabbi Matthew Leibl.
