By REBECA KUROPATWA Born and raised in Winnipeg, Micah Lexier graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba in 1982 and, in 1984, with a Masters in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
By BERNIE BELLAN
Among this year’s winners of a Lieutenant Governor’s Make a Difference Community Award is Phil Spevack. (The ceremony during which award recipients received their awards took place April 14.)
By REBECA KUROPATWA When asked whether she anticipated she would win a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Science, Action grant, Erin Goldberg (26), humbly replied that she has always been a creative person and enjoys translating her research for laymen and women.
By MYRON LOVE Haskel Greenfield, Professor of Anthropol-ogy and Archaeology at the University of Manitoba and co-director (with his wife, Professor Tina Green-field) of the university’s Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab, has achieved a career pinnacle. He has been recognized as one of the university’s “Distinguished Professors”.
By BERNIE BELLAN After years of hopes and setbacks the Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun congregation is finally seeing some major improvements being made to the building at Brock and Fleet that has been its home since 1955.
Over 200 members of the Jewish community, along with quite a few invited dignitaries, attended this year's Yom Hashoah ceremony on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature Thursday, April 16. Read more to see a photo montage from the day's events.
By HARVEY ROSEN I must admit that the 2015 Rady Jewish Community Centre Sports Dinner Organizing Committee chaired by the indefatigable and personable, Blair Worb, threw me a curve when I was anticipating a fastball right over the middle of the plate and I struck out swinging.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
A new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning company has recently sprung onto the Winnipeg scene, headed up by three newcomers from Israel who now call Winnipeg home.
By BERNIE BELLAN
Earlier this year I previewed Jason Marantz’s upcoming talks at this year’s Limmud, held March 14 and 15 at the Gray Academy.
In my article then I noted that “Jason has fashioned quite a career as an educator. He has been Headteacher (principal) at a London Jewish primary school and is currently Chief Executive of the London School of Jewish Studies.”
By BERNIE BELLAN
You have to hand it to the organizers of Limmud: They don’t limit the kinds of sessions to what would ordinarily be considered “Jewish” subjects, per se. If you’re a Jew – or maybe you just like Jews, or perhaps you just like Jewish food, then you’re sure to enjoy something at Limmud – and maybe, just maybe, you’ll be given a time slot at Limmud to boot.
By BERNIE BELLAN
When Richard Tapper passed away three years ago at the young age of 35, he left a void, not just in the Winnipeg Jewish community, but the entire community, that can likely never be filled.
