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Gray Academy sets the pace for all other schools in Manitoba by instituting vaccine requirement for all students 12 and up

Lori Binder
Head of School, Gray Academy

By BERNIE BELLAN I had intended to speak with Lori Binder, Head of School at Gray Academy at a pre-arranged time on Wednesday, August 25 when, on Tuesday afternoon I received an email from Lori informing me that she wanted to share with me a communication that had just gone out to all parents.
Following are excerpts from that communication:

Read more: Gray Academy sets the pace for all other schools in Manitoba by instituting vaccine requirement...

Daniel Greaves: music and more

Daniel Greaves

By GERRY POSNER Is it nature or nurture or both - a question that has been asked thousands of times relating to all sorts of different people. Well, I suggest in Daniel Greaves, the answer is easy. He had the nature and he had the nurture and the result was and is very impressive. Music oozes out of this guy and it always did.

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Community member Abe Posen turns a hundred

Abe Posen

By KINZEY POSEN I phoned my dad Abe Posen, who lives at the Portsmouth Retirement Residence, and asked him how his day was. “Not bad,” he answered. A phrase my father often uses when things are ok. “I worked out in the gym with the weights and went for a walk.” Not unusual of course, except my dad was days away from his 100th birthday.

Read more: Community member Abe Posen turns a hundred

Harold and Harry - a friendship that spanned seven decades

left: the late Harold Richman
right: Harry Warren

Ed. note: It’s been quite some time since we had run a piece by Harry Warren in the print edition of the JP&N. Harry's often whimsical musings were regular features in the paper for many years. So, when I happened to call Harry not too long ago, I was more than  a little concerned that I might find out there was something seriously wrong that had prevented him from sending us any more contributions.

Read more: Harold and Harry - a friendship that spanned seven decades

Former Winnipegger Chuck Lazer looks back on satisfying career in television production

Chuck Lazer

By MYRON LOVE It was French filmmaker Francois Truffaut’s 1973 film, “Day for Night”, that inspired former Winnipegger Chuck Lazer to pursue a career in show business.
“The movie was about a film producer making a movie,” the older brother of current Jewish Federation of Winnipeg President Joel Lazer recalls. “After watching that film, I determined that was what I wanted to do.”

Read more: Former Winnipegger Chuck Lazer looks back on satisfying career in television production

"Dear Jack Dear Louise" funny and poignant

Justin Stadnyk and Becky
Frohlinger in a scene from
"Dear Jack Dear Louise"

Review by BERNIE BELLAN When I learned that the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre was going to be producing its first production in front of a live audience since February 2020, I wondered how it might come off, given that performing under a canopy on a field isn’t quite the same as say, putting on a show at Rainbow Stage.

Read more: "Dear Jack Dear Louise" funny and poignant

Yes, Italian tennis star Camila Giorgi is Jewish. And her favorite book is ‘The Diary of Anne Frank.’

Camila Giorgi

By MARVIN GLASSMAN (JTA) — This week Camila Giorgi won the National Bank Open, Canada’s most prestigious tennis tournament, and it was a milestone for two reasons. First, it was the first major title win in the 29-year-old’s career, and a huge upset — she was ranked 71st in the world before beating No. 6 Karolina Pliskova in the finals. Second, Giorgi became the first Jewish player to win the event in 56 years, since American Julie Heldman took what was then called the Canadian Open in 1965.

Read more: Yes, Italian tennis star Camila Giorgi is Jewish. And her favorite book is ‘The Diary of Anne...

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre to premiere first live show since February 2020

Stars of the new WJT show
left: Becky Frohlinger
right: Justin Stadnyk

By BERNIE BELLAN Amidst all the plans that had either to be shelved or retooled as a result of Covid, perhaps no organization within our community has had to constantly rejig its plans more than the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre.

 

Read more: Winnipeg Jewish Theatre to premiere first live show since February 2020

BB Camp and Camp Massad end up having totally different experiences this summer

BB Campers set out
on their canoe trip
in late July this summer

By BERNIE BELLAN Back in the spring it was hard to know what might unfold for our two Jewish sleepover camps.

It was in our May 12 issue when I reported that while BB Camp’s co-directors, Jacob Brodovsky and Lexie Yurman,  weren’t optimistic that the Ontario government would lift all restrictions that had been imposed on camps as a result of Covid, there were still reasons to be hopeful that they would be able to run some form of second session, AC (Advanced Camp) and LTP (Leadership Training Programs) programs at the camp this summer.

Read more: BB Camp and Camp Massad end up having totally different experiences this summer

Camp Massad was set to go - but Manitoba Health put a crimp in all the plans

Improvements to Camp Massad
made over the past 2 summers
include: new siding on all cabins
and a new basketball court

By BERNIE BELLAN Just as BB Camp had a plan in the works that allowed families to make use of the camp, Massad also had something similar in the works – with families being able to rent cabins.
While Camp Massad had to cancel all its June bookings, it was still able to take bookings in July for rentals.
Nevertheless, the families that were able to come out to Massad had a fantastic experience, Massad Executive Director Danial Sprintz noted. “We even encouraged families to bring their dogs with them,” he said.

 

Read more: Camp Massad was set to go - but Manitoba Health put a crimp in all the plans

Winnipeg’s first lady of independent theatre takes her leave

Kayla Gordon

By MYRON LOVE Kayla Gordon may have taken her last curtain call as the artistic director of Winnipeg Studio Theatre – which she founded 15 years ago – but that doesn’t mean that she is leaving the Winnipeg theatrical scene any time soon.

Read more: Winnipeg’s first lady of independent theatre takes her leave

Gwen Secter meal delivery program continues to fill vital need in the community - non-Jewish as well as Jewish

Becky Chisick
Gwen Secter Executive Director

By BERNIE BELLAN Ever since the Covid pandemic took hold in Manitoba I’ve been chronicling the amazing efforts emanating from the Gwen Secter Centre to provide services not only to seniors but to many other individuals in need.

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Who were the major recipients of Jewish Foundation grants in 2020?

Jewish Foundation logo2By BERNIE BELLAN Elsewhere on this website (http://www.jewishpostandnews.ca/local/855-jewish-foundation-distributed-over-5-000-000-in-2020) we reported on the very successful year that the Jewish Foundation had in its 2020 fiscal year, both in terms of new contributions ($3,384,493) and in the growth of the total assets of the Foundation (to $148,075,775, compared with $137,039,046 in 2019).

Read more: Who were the major recipients of Jewish Foundation grants in 2020?

Cruise ship singing star looking forward to going back to sea

Rochelle Kives

By MYRON LOVE After ten years – literally – at sea, it should come as no surprise that Winnipeg-based cruise ship entertainer Rochelle Kives is missing the life aquatic.
“I love to travel and working on cruise ships has been part of my life for so many years,” she notes.

Read more: Cruise ship singing star looking forward to going back to sea

Famed biographer Walter Isaacson’s latest book examines how “Crispr” tecnnology developed and how it’s changing our world

Cover of "The Codebreaker"
with Dr. Jennifer Doudna
right: author Walter Isaacson

By MARTIN ZEILIG During the recent rebroadcast of an interview on CBC Radio’s science show, Quirks & Quarks, Dr. Jennifer Doudna told how it “was a real shock” when she received an early morning telephone call notifying her of having been co-awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
She’s a humble person. But, she shouldn’t have been so surprised.

Read more: Famed biographer Walter Isaacson’s latest book examines how “Crispr” tecnnology developed and how...

New thriller by Israeli-Canadian Herschy Katz combines love of hockey with intrigue behind the Iron Curtain in 1972

left: author Herschy Katz
cover of "The Ninth Terrorist"

By BERNIE BELLAN In 2019 I wrote a review of a book titled “The Clarinetist”. It had been sent to me by an expatriate Canadian who had moved to Israel in 1984 by the name of Herschel Katz.
As I noted in that review, the book was quite good for a first-time author. In it we were introduced to a young Montreal high school student by the name of Danny Kahn who ends up enmeshed in an intriguing situation having to do with the Montreal father of his girlfriend.

Read more: New thriller by Israeli-Canadian Herschy Katz combines love of hockey with intrigue behind the...

New cannabis store in Tuxedo promises to give whole new meaning to the "High" Holidays

the co-owners of
CHARACTER CO. in Tuxedo

By BERNIE BELLAN In the 1920s some rich supporters of the Republican Party in the U.S. gained notoriety by running an ad claiming that under the Republican administration of Herbert Hoover there was “a chicken in every pot”. Now that there’s an election on in Canada – I wonder if there's any politician around who would have the courage to promise “a little pot in every chicken” - which was an expression once ascribed to Pierre Trudeau.

Read more: New cannabis store in Tuxedo promises to give whole new meaning to the "High" Holidays

David Steinberg speaks fondly of his Winnipeg roots in autobiography

Twitter photoBy MARTIN ZEILIG When asked why he decided to write this entertaining and insightful book comedian/director/writer/producer/actor David Steinberg provides a concise and reasonable response.
“Money,” Steinberg said in an email response to a series of questions sent to him by this reporter.

He seems to be following, at least in part, the wise words of Samuel Johnson (Dr. Johnson) the 18th century English writer, moralist, critic, editor and lexicographer who famously said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”

Read more: David Steinberg speaks fondly of his Winnipeg roots in autobiography

Young community leader calls for others to step up in countering antisemitism, Israel haters

Candice Tennebein with
husband Marshall and sons
Jacob (left) and Ethan

By MYRON LOVE With incidents of Anti-Semitism growing worldwide, Candice Tenenbein is exhorting fellow Jewish Winnipeggers – and non-Jewish supporters – to step up their efforts to combat this unhinged scourge of Jew and Israel hatred.
“Antisemitism is the most virulent and oldest form of hate, and today often appears as anti-Zionism,” she says.

Read more: Young community leader calls for others to step up in countering antisemitism, Israel haters

Jackie Simkin: and the Simkin legacy goes on

Jackie Simkin

By GERRY POSNER Many readers will recognize the name Simkin - well known in Winnipeg and beyond. It was not always thus, but from a small beginning, both the family and the business grew and grew. The Simkin story - and the original family business, BACM, reflect four brothers sharing the load initially, then ultimately selling the business. Much of that story has been written about in previous publications. But the generation that followed the four Simkin brothers continued the Simkin legacy in many ways.

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