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Gray Academy honours Grade 12 student Ben Chimol whose life was cut short by cancer this past December

By BERNIE BELLAN (with materials contributed by Gray Academy) In 2019, Gray Academy student Ben Chimol, then in Grade...

Jewish Athlete of the Year Yohnatan Elizarov continues to excel as a figure skater

By BERNIE BELLAN (with past columns from Scott Taylor and Myron Love) Four years ago we introduced readers to...

What Netanyahu is doing has even led our staid Jewish Federation to protest

By BERNIE BELLAN The story within the Jewish world that, of late, has been crowding out almost every other...

Winnipeg branch of Canadian Magen David Adom launches fundraising drive in memory of Yoram East

By MYRON LOVE “A force of nature” is a phrase that has long been popular in artistic circles to...

Shaarey Zedek’s Shabbat Across Winnipeg Mitzvah for Members Celebrating 50 or more Years of Membership 

In the spirit of Shabbat Across Winnipeg, Congregation Shaarey Zedek reached out to surprise all members who have been...

Judicial Reform: An alternate midrash to Minister Karhi’s

By BRYAN SCHWARTZ Shlomo Karhi, Minister of Communications, the other day sent a Purim-time message to Israeli reserve soldiers...

Post Purim musings

By SIMONE COHEN SCOTT Jerusalem, March 9th, 2023 Purim in Jerusalem was different this year. Before Kovid the festival...

Connecting two sisters through their great-great-grandsons

By GERRY POSNER I am guessing there are two women somewhere who had a moment of joy recently. The...

Hit the jackpot in the JetX game — how to play JetX in Parimatch casino in Canada

The new JetX game at Parimatch Canada — use these tips to know how to play JetX and win Most...

“Narrow Bridge” offers wonderful lesson in understanding the struggles individuals go through in grappling with questions of identity – in an often quite humorous...

Review by BERNIE BELLAN Is it possible to produce a play that tackles the tremendous pressure any individual deciding to...

Choosing a Garage Door Repair Service in Richmond: What to Look for and Who to Trust

Garage doors are an important aspect of any property, as they provide protection and security for the vehicles or...

Why College Students Should Start Boxing

Why College Students Should Start Boxing Emotional distress, anxiety, depression, sleeping and eating disorders, combined with a plethora of other...

Benefits of College Boxing for Students

A college is a perfect place for experimenting, starting new hobbies, learning how to take care of yourself and...

The late Rabbi Zalman Schachter’s time in Winnipeg recalled at lively evening hosted by Jewish Heritage Centre

(This article originally appeared in the Dec. 21, 2016 issue of The Jewish Post & News) By BERNIE BELLANIt...

Adam Buchwald sets local speed skating record, then scores further successes at Canada Games

One of six finalists for Jewish Athlete of the Year in 2022, 17-year-old Adam Buchwald continues to excel in...

Miles Guralnick raising money for Parkinson’s research in Israel

We received an email from Jack London about his grandson, Miles Guralnick. Jack wrote: “Miles hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....

Sarah Secter go-to expert for all art-related matters

By MYRON LOVE When Dov Secter proposed to Sarah Allentuck 16 years ago at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, he...

A first-hand account of an Israeli rescue mission in Turkey

A couple of weeks ago Gerry Posner forwarded us a fascinating email which contained a first-hand account written by...

Mexican-born Uri and Tania Shefer love their new home town

By MYRON LOVE For Mexican-born Uri Shefer, his first visit to Canada was akin to love at first sight....

At Limmud March 12: Tina Greenfield on animal sacrifice in ancient Mesopotamia

By MARTIN ZEILIG When asked what it is about Mesopotamia that captures her imagination, Dr. Tina Greenfield has a...

Limmud speaker Maria Givner to present over view of life of King Saul in novel format

By MYRON LOVE When I was growing up, I first discovered many of the classics of Western literature through...

Book Review: “The Matchmaker’s Gift”

By BERNIE BELLAN Given the subject matter of Beatty Cohan’s column elsewhere on this site - online dating, I...

Online dating: Should I swipe right or left?

According to Statista’s Digital Market Outlook, online dating services are expected to have reached 413 million active users worldwide...

Marcus Spiegel’s writing career continuing to blossom

Last June we had a story about Marcus Spiegel, a young writer originally from Winnipeg whose parents are Esther...

Max Zev Bankstein: Canada’s first registered Jewish architect

The Jewish Heritage Centre prides itself in preserving and promoting the history and culture of western Canadian and Winnipeg...

Here’s the Limmud 2023 schedule

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After a three-year delay Winnipeg Jewish Theatre will finally present the premiere of “Narrow Bridge” by local playwright Daniel Thau-Eleff

By MARTIN ZEILIG Daniel Thau-Eleff was looking forward to seeing his play about a transgender person, “Narrow Bridge, “...

Ben Carr hoping to follow in his late father Jim Carr’s footsteps

By MYRON LOVE Ben Carr, the son of the late Jim Carr, has thrown his hat into the ring...

Rooslana Zodek has built a successful business here after having come to Winnipeg from Israel six years ago

By BERNIE BELLAN It was in the summer of 2016 when I approached then Rady JCC Assistant Executive Director...

Harvey Pollock was dedicated to the law

By BERNIE BELLAN and MYRON LOVE On Sunday, February 5, Harvey Pollock passed away suddenly. Much has already been...

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Anti-Defamation League announces new outpost in Brooklyn, the ‘epicenter’ of antisemitic assaults

(New York Jewish Week) — In a recent report on rising antisemitism in the United States, the Anti-Defamation League called Brooklyn “the epicenter of...

New HBO series to spotlight Natalie Portman’s role in bringing a women’s soccer team to Los Angeles

(JTA) — An upcoming HBO documentary series will highlight the role Academy Award-winning Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman played in bringing the Angel City Football...

Montreal’s oldest synagogue building vandalized with swastikas

MONTREAL (JTA) — Vandals defaced Quebec province’s oldest synagogue building with Nazi swastikas over the weekend, prompting a Canadian Jewish watchdog to call on...

These NY Jewish teens are aiding young refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues...

Eli Zabar debuts a chocolate matzah ice cream, just in time for Passover

(New York Jewish Week) — Move over, donut hamantaschen! Now that Purim has come and gone, it’s time to start thinking about Passover desserts....

The first Passover haggadah in Ukrainian marks a community’s break with Russia

(JTA) — For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover’s core text into Ukrainian started with the title. The haggadah — the book containing the Passover...

Margot Stern Strom, who founded pioneering Holocaust education program Facing History, dies at 81

(JTA) — Margot Stern Strom, who drew on the pain of her Jewish childhood in the Jim Crow South to create one of the...

Jewish politician in Finland allegedly assaulted and hit with antisemitic slurs

(JTA) — A Jewish member of Finland’s parliament said that he was assaulted in a Helsinki subway station on Saturday, where an assailant punched...

A 1990s Israeli play is the feminist production NY needs right now

(New York Jewish Week) — When Anat Gov’s play “HaChaverot Hachi Tovot” (“Best Friends”) premiered in 1999, it was an anomaly among Israeli works...

Horror director Ari Aster calls his new movie ‘Beau is Afraid’ a ‘Jewish Lord of the Rings’

(JTA) — “It’s like a Jewish ‘Lord of the Rings,’ but he’s just going to his mom’s house.” That’s how director Ari Aster, known for...