Mysterious B’nai Brith plaque surfaces after 63 years - mystery solved thanks to Stan Carbone…and a Jewish Post from 1952
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By BERNIE BELLAN
It began with an e-mail I received from Earl Barish on March 21. In the e-mail Barish explained that Brenda Tessler-Donen, Executive Director of B’nai Brith Camp, had received a fascinating phone call from an architectural firm in Kenora earlier in March.
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