By JOSHUA DOLSTEN
(JTA) — It’s official: Gal Gadot will portray Jewish actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in a Showtime limited series.
The cable network made the announcement on August 2.
Gadot had been rumored as the leading candidate for the role for about a year.
By SIMONE COHEN SCOTT
Not often does the Remis Speakers’ Forum have two speakers at once. Further, we almost never have speakers honour us by planning their trips to accommodate our schedule.
But that’s what Shai Doron and Nomi Yeshua did, and we are the richer for it in our appreciation of Jerusalem. These two people are the President and the Chief Development Officer, respectively, of The Jerusalem Foundation, and their outstanding presentation was truly inspirational - at the Speakers’ Forum on July 29.
By SCOTT TAYLOR
Dawson Pasternak intends on making the roster of the Western Hockey League’s Portland Winterhawks this season. In fact, he’s so hopeful that his parents, Craig and Cindy, have already set up Dawson in school in Portland for the fall term.
By MYRON LOVE
Last April, one of the guests of honour at the World Veterinary Association’s annual Congress in San José, Costa Rica, was Dr. Jonas Watson. The Winnipeg veterinarian was one of six veterinarians from around the world who were presented with the WVA’s annual Welfare Award.
By BERNIE BELLAN
The ruling by a Federal Court of Canada judge that wines produced on the West Bank of Israel cannot be labeled “Product of Israel” could have much greater ramifications for a wide range of products beyond wines that are currently exported to Canada under the “Product of Israel” label.
On July 17 the Board of the Rady JCC issued the following announcement:
The Rady Jewish Community Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Berkowits as its incoming Executive Director. He will assume responsibilities on August 12, 2019 and will succeed Gayle Waxman.
By BERNIE BELLAN
It began with an email we received on Tuesday, July 16. The email referred to an event that was supposed to be taking place at the Corydon Community Centre on Thursday evening, July 18 (at the same time as the AMIA commemoration in the Berney Theatre).
By MYRON LOVE
Lauren Isaacs doesn’t pull any punches. As far as the recently-appointed Toronto Director of Herut Canada is concerned, all of the ostensibly Jewish groups – with names such as Independent Jewish Voices, Jewish Voices for Peace, J Street, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and If Not Now – who claim to be fighting for a better Israel and for the Palestinians are peddling lies.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
If you are a grandparent, you may have grown up going to a Jewish school after public school was over for the day. But, today, that is not the norm.
Eileen Curtis, a teacher at Irma Penn School of Jewish Learning at Winnipeg’s Temple Shalom, is helping to change this paradigm, while incorporating some new ways of teaching.
By REBECA KUROPATWA
Leah Schwartz (17) has always loved delving deeply into scientific research. Both of her parents share a passion for science as well.
Schwartz studied at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) Collegiate and did some research at the Cardiac Fibrosis lab in St. Boniface Hospital.
By IRWIN LIPNOWSKI
Ed. note: This story first appeared in our Dec. 15, 2010 edition. We thought it especially relevant in light of the story which you can read elsewhere on this site at https://jewishpostandnews.ca/local/2930-lawsuit-against-parents-of-former-gray-academy-students-continues-to-drag-on about the Board of Jewish Education’s ongoing lawsuit against a family here - and the possibility that the Board may incur huge legal costs - even if it should win its lawsuit.
By MYRON LOVE
Before the year is out, Professor Amir Amedi is hopeful that new devices that he and his colleagues have invented will allow the blind to better navigate their surroundings and greatly enhance their lives.
By BERNIE BELLAN
Have you heard of Julian Edelman? He’s a receiver for the New England Patriots and was voted this year’s Super Bowl Most Outstanding Player.
He is also commonly referred to as the best “Jewish” football player in the National Football League. On top of all that, Edelman is not afraid to hide the fact he’s Jewish. He wears a Star of David and always refers to himself as Jewish.
Ed. note: A little over a month ago we published a story about how a Canadian academic who was spending his sabbatical year in Israel was unceremoniously deported from Israel after he returned from a conference he had attended in Germany at the beginning of June. You can read that story at https://www.jewishpostandnews.ca/israel/2905-how-did-a-nice-zionist-academic-my-nephew-have-trouble-with-his-israel-visa-and-end-up-getting-deported-from-israel
By BERNIE BELLAN
For years now the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, in which 85 persons lost their lives, has been marked by commemorative ceremonies at the Berney Theatre each July.
