By BERNIE BELLAN Jerry Maslowsky was one of the nicest guys I had ever met. I was shocked to read that he had passed when it was mentioned during the Blue Bomber game yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 4).Over the years we've had numerous articles either mentioning Jerry in The JP&N or completely about Jerry himself.
By BERNIE BELLAN Sparks flew at the Gwen Secter Centre on Thursday, August 18, when I attempted to ask questions of the newly elected Member of the Legislature for St. Johns, Nahanni Fontaine.
By BERNIE BELLAN It’s not unheard of for someone to combine sports with being a rabbi, although generally one would think of a genteel sport such as softball as being more appropriate to someone of the rabbinical persuasion, as Harvey Rosen might say.
By BERNIE BELLAN This paper has been writing about the importance of being screened for colorectal cancer for years, focusing on what has now become an annual event: The Kick Butt Run for Colorectal Cancer.
By BERNIE BELLAN In our last (Aug. 17) issue I wrote about the tremendous success Camp Massad had this past summer in terms of its number of campers.
By BERNIE BELLAN It started with a phone call to our office Monday morning, August 22. Call display said “private name private caller”.
By GERRY POSNER
There are times when you can tell at an early age that a particular person will rise to the top. Allison Weiss certainly fits that description. Allison, daughter of Lorne and Paulette Weiss, was on the ascent right from her days at Ramah Hebrew School.
By BERNIE BELLAN
Camp Massad Executive Director Danial Sprintz reports that this past summer has been one of the best ever for the Hebrew speaking camp.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
The oldest medical fraternity in the world, the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, has created a pro-bono dental service for Holocaust survivors.
By BERNIE BELLAN
The Jewish Federation put on quite the event commemorating the massacre of Yazidi refugees by ISIS two years ago, but one might welll ask: Did that event go a little overboard?
By MYRON LOVE
Michael Eskin has become the first chazan in Canadian history to be inducted into the Order of Canada. But it is not for his chazanishe efforts that the creator of the CD “Mostly Genesis With a Little Exodus” – Torah stories put to music for children and families – that the Government of Canada has chosen to honour him.
