David Asper (left) presented with the Sol Kanee Distinguished Community Service Medal by Richard Kroft
By MYRON LOVE They come from various walks of life. They include lawyers and financial planners, teachers, homemakers, a hotelier, a long time camp director and an immigration consultant. What all those who shared the stage at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue on Thursday, May 17, at the annual Jewish Federation of Winnipeg/Combined Jewish Appeal Kavod Evening is a willingness to give of their time for the betterment of our community.
By SHELLEY ROBERTSON (Copyright to The Jewish Post & News) Winnipeg philanthropist and businessman Arnold Frieman is being honoured by the University of Manitoba with an honorary degree at a convocation ceremony on Friday, June 8.
clockwise from top: Carolyn Lindner, David Gurvey, Kyle Doering, Yonatan Orlov, Sydney Hnatuk, Daniel Tsaiger, Matthew Bernstein
By HARVEY ROSEN
My, how rapidly time passes. It seems ever so recent that Teemu Selanne was the featured celebrity at the 45th Rady JCC Sports Dinner on May 10th, 2017.
(l-r): Drs. Richard Boroditsky, Neil Margolis, & Manuel Matas
By BERNIE BELLAN The Jewish Heritage Centre held another in a series of programs looking back at a century of Manitoba Jewish physicians on Thursday, May 17, at the Berney Theatre.
By BERNIE BELLAN (Note: My meeting with Canada’s Ambassador to Irsael, Deborah Lyons, occurred before news began to appear about the most recent violence on Israel’s border with Gaza - and well before Prime Minister Trudeau issued a statement that was strongly critical of Israel’s actions on May 14.)
By now, it’s become standard practice for emergency room physician and CBC radio host Dr. Brian Goldman to appear at the Asper Campus whenever he launches a new book. The first time was in 2011, when he spoke in the Berney Theatre to promote his first book, The Night Shift, which talked about what really goes in a hospital emergency room.
Shaarey Zedek Congregation bade farewell to longtime Rabbi Alan Green and his wife Chaya with a series of events beginning with a gala dinner Thursday, April 26, followed by a special Shabbat service on April 28 that saw participation by Cantors Herschel and Judy Fox.
By MYRON LOVE The 11th annual Cancercare Manitoba Foundation Challenge for Life 20KM walk (or 200-minute workout) will take place in Assiniboine Park on Saturday, June 10, and several members of our Jewish community are – once again – among the leading fundraisers.
Manitoba Jewish dentists - members of Alpha Omega Fraternity to be honoured at Negev Gala
On May 29th, 2018 the Jewish National Fund (JNF) will be honouring the Manitoba Chapter of Alpha Omega Fraternity and one of its most distinguished members, Dr. Gerald Niznick.
JCFS Community of Caring Gala Committee (left-right): Elena Grinshteyn, Randee Pollock, Leslie Wilder, Meytal Lavy, Pam Vine, Heather Leonoff, Harriet Zimmer, Sherry Lercher-Davis, Al Benarroch, Einat Paz-Keynan, Shana Menkis, Rietta Floom, Jill Atnikov, Tara Greenberg, Danita Dubinsky-Aziza (Missing from photo: Joanne Grusko, Carli Rossall, Irina Krassovitski) Photo courtesy of Manuel F. Sousa Photography
By BERNIE BELLAN Of all the lousy luck – a gala evening that had been long in the planning happened to coincide with what was, to that point, the most important game in Winnipeg Jets’ history.
It was Game 7 of the Jets-Nashville series. Knowing that many of those who would be in attendance would be checking their phones all during the evening, the decision was made by JCFS gala planners to try to accommodate the many hockey fans who were in attendance at the JCFS “Community of Caring” gala on May 10th. MC Rabbi Matthew Leibl told the almost sold-out Convention Centre crowd that “We have tried to plan this evening so that the main entertainment and the main speeches coincide with intermissions in the hockey game.”
Members of the Schulman family (l-r): MARLON SCHULMAN (Dara’s brother-in-law), SYLVIA SCHULMAN (Dara’s mother-in-law), DARA HORN, BRENDAN SCHULMAN (Dara’s husband), and PERRY SCHULMAN (Dara’s father-in-law)
By BERNIE BELLAN
Over 250 people were in attendance at the Adas Yeshurun Herzlia Synagogue Sunday evening May 6th as well-known writer Dara Horn gave a talk titled “Eternal Life - Blessing or Curse?” Also prior to Dara’s talk, it was announced that the congregation had successfully raised $1.2 million in its recent fund-raising drive and that the mortgage on the building has been halved.
