By HARVEY ROSEN One of the highlights of the Annual Y Sports Dinner is the presentation of the Idy and Max Nusgart Memorial Award, which is presented to the person chosen as the “Jewish Athlete of the Year.”
By MYRON LOVE I must admit that it was a bit incongruous to be hearing a devout Christian choir lustily singing well known and popular Hebrew songs such as “Am Israel Chai” and “Oseh Shalom”. But, the member s of Bridges for Peace are also devout supporters of Israel and the Jewish People in our traditional homeland.
By MYRON LOVE Spiritual leadership comes in many forms. But the bottom line, as enunciated by Jane Eisner, the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, comes down to “the power of personal connection – through study, social action or simple acts of kindness”.
By MYRON LOVE On Tuesday, April 21, the Vickar family hosted a celebratory luncheon at the dealership (Vickar Community Chevrolet on Regent) for the top selling General Motors sales team in Canada last year. It was the second time in three years that Vickar Community Chevrolet has led the country in new car sales.
By BERNIE BELLAN Ari Shavit is the kind of speaker that we just don’t get to hear very often in Winnipeg. Although a Sabra by birth, Shavit’s mastery of English is so good that not only was he able to produce mellifluous prose in what is his second language, when he addressed a crowd numbering over 600 at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue on Sunday, April 19, he spoke without once hesitating, even though he barely referred to his notes.
By MEACHELLE BELLAN
I’m an exercise maven and I was in the fitness business for years – so, when my husband Bernie suggested that I should start going to the Rady JCC for fitness classes, I hesitated.
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.)
The community came out in force to celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut at the Asper Campus on Thursday, April 23. Watch a video collage from that evening on this website at http://www.jewishpostandnews.ca/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/172/local/yom-ha-atzmaut-at-asper-campus-apr-23-2015?Itemid=163
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 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 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”.
