Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
In the annals of questions that ask something totally ridiculous, such as “Would King Kong have really beaten Godzilla?”, we can now add: “Who are you more likely to turn to for counseling: A rabbi or a divorce lawyer?”
By BERNIE BELLAN
When it comes to researching the history of the YMHA/Rady JCC, there are no better sources than members who actually belonged to the YMHA when it was still on Albert Street. The stories they have to tell are priceless – especially when it comes to describing what stood for a “gym” in that building.
By BERNIE BELLAN
In a column that you can read elsewhere on this site I referred to funding received by the beneficiary agencies of the Jewish Federation. Apparently some of the information I gave about the Simkin Centre, Winnipeg's Jewish Personal Care Home, was not quite correct, while other points I made about the centre require further clarification.
By BERNIE BELLAN
In another article on this site, I had written about the “bureaucratization” of Jewish agencies in Winnipeg, noting how many agencies which used to rely on volunteers have now become very large institutions – and have in some cases greatly expanded their roles.
Of those agencies, one in particular stood out for me: Jewish Child and Family Service.
Thanks to the combined efforts of Yazidis who have settled in Manitoba, along with volunteers from Operation Ezra, and the very generous assistance of Bo Wohlers, owner of Shelmerdine Nursery, over eight acres of vegetables that had been seeded on a farm that had not been in use in the St. Francois Xavier area produced a bumper crop of 33 different kinds of vegetables this summer.
By MYRON LOVE
Marcie and David Paller received a crash course on being Jewish in Winnipeg when they made their first ever visit to our community on the weekend of August 22-25. The occasion was a reunion of the Raber Family. Marcie’s parents are Noel and Miriam (Raber) Fishman.
“Shot Rock”
By Michael Tregebov
220 pages
New Star Books
to be released Sept. 26
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
Michael Tregebov is only one year younger than me. We grew up in the same part of town – although I didn’t meet Michael until I moved to West Kildonan Collegiate from Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate following Grade 10.
By MYRON LOVE
The diningroom at the Gwen Secter Creative Retirement Centre at Sid Glow Place was packed on Wednesday, August 28, as appreciative Gwen Secter members enjoyed the latest theatrical offering of the centre’s own “Wits and Skits” players.
Mark Leiren-Young’s Bar Mitzvah Boy opens Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s new four-play season on September 14.
The play follows Joey, a sixty something lawyer who decides it’s time for him to have the Bar Mitzvah he never had. Joey assumes it will be fast and he can get on with this life. But things don’t work out quite the way he expects.
By KINZEY POSEN (Ed. note: This article was first posted Oct./17. With the news of Mitch's passing, we thought it appropriate to repost it to the home page.) Last November Mitch Podolak was leaving one of his favourite Winnipeg restaurants, the Evergreen on Pembina, when he suddenly fell outside. As he lay there somewhat stunned, he realized that this fall was about to change his life. He couldn’t feel the lower part of his body after landing hard on his neck.
By MYRON LOVE
Shalom Square –the Israel Pavillion at Folklorama – featured some special guests at the early show on Friday evening, August 9. That would be the members of the I.L. Peretz Folk School class of ’72 who had come together on the weekend of August 9-11 to celebrate their 60th birthdays this year.
By SCOTT TAYLOR
Winnipeg’s Lou Billinkoff didn’t become an internationally-recognized athlete until he was 89-years-old.
