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Leonard Cohen concert plays to sold-out crowd at Etz Chayim

(l-r): Cantors TRACY KASNER GREAVES and LEN UDOW; Rabbanit DORIT KOSMIN; and the married couple of NATHANIEL GOODE and JESSICA HAVEY.

By BERNIE BELLAN
Over 400 people packed the auditorium of the Etz Chayim Synagogue Saturday evening October 20 for a concert dedicated to the music of the late Leonard Cohen. (Watch a clip from the concert along with a clip from the Jewish Foundation Book of Life signing event, held the next morning: http://jewishpostandnews.ca/categories-media/73-entertainment/241-leonard-cohen-concert-jewish-foundation-ebol )

Corporate and community leader James Cohen also a passionate musician and composer

James Cohen (at the mic.) and the Prairie Roots Rockers

By MYRON LOVE
James Cohen was 11 years old when his parents first signed him up for guitar lessons.

StandWithUs hears from experienced advocate for Israel Neil Lazarus

Neil Lazarus is a London-born public speaker who travels widely educating audiences how to advocate on behalf of Israel. Over the course of any given year he says that he typically speaks to over 30,000 individuals in five different countries.

Tarbut festival headliner calling for innovative approaches to Judaism

By MYRON LOVE
The good news, says Rabbi Irwin Kula, is that, contrary to doom and gloom commentary about the lack of interest among younger Jews in being Jewish, surveys show that over 90% of American Jews are proud to be Jewish.

Millionaire socialite admits to hitting lawyer with glass purse and making anti-Semitic remark

Matt Haberkorn, left, after being hit with a glass clutch by Jacqueline Kent Cooke, right.

(JTA) – A New York millionaire socialite admitted to hitting a lawyer with a glass handbag and making an anti-Semitic remark in a New Year’s Eve incident.

Former Brownstone choir members reunite at Talmud Torah Beth Jacob Synagogue Saturday, October 20th

(l-r): ALLAN FINKEL, JACK BORODITSKY, PERRY RUBENFELD, RON GALL, AL BENARROCH, CAREY BORODITSKY, and MARSHALL DANA

The Talmud Torah Beth Jacob Synagogue played host to a special service October 20 in which former members of the late Cantor Benjamin Browntone’s choir recreated some of the melodies taught to them by Brownstone or by Brownstone protegé Sam Simkin. (Note: The photo here was taken without the knowledge or approval of anyone associated with the synagogue, which is Orthodox.)

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Allan Levine has written another masterful popular history – this time about Canada’s Jewish community

Allan By BERNIE BELLAN
It’s been nine years since Allan Levine released his very popular history of the Jews of Manitoba, titled “Coming of Age – A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba”.

Why bother even hiring professional headhunters if you're going to fire whomever they've proposed in less than a year?

By BERNIE BELLAN

I wonder whether every few years or so (if this paper is still around), I’m going to be writing yet another column expressing shock over the removal of another employee of a Winnipeg Jewish organization – or synagogue.

Yet another kosher restaurant announces it's going non-kosher: This time it's Desserts Plus

Read the following story and then decide for yourself whether the email received from Desserts Plus on Oct. 28 is not terribly ironic when you read a letter following the Desserts Plus email which was sent to us by Laurel Malkin, President of the Jewish Federation on October 25.

‘Our hearts are broken’: The Jewish world reacts to the Pittsburgh synagogue attack

vigil held in Pittsburgh Sat. evening, Oct. 27

Posted Sunday afternoon Oct. 28

The Jewish Federation has released the following statement today in response to the deadly shootings in Pittsburgh yesterday, Oct. 27:

Mariam Bernstein is brilliant as famed sexologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer in WJT’s “Becoming Dr. Ruth”

Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN (Posted Oct. 27)

I can’t remember exactly the first time I heard of “Dr. Ruth”. It was probably sometime in the 1970s when she began to garner a great deal of attention on some of the most popular television shows of that era, especially Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show”.

For 2nd time in 3 years, a major Winnipeg Jewish organization fires its CEO

By BERNIE BELLAN

What is it with the biggest Jewish organizations in Winnipeg? For the second time in three years, following an extensive process of recruitment, a former Winnipegger who was brought into head a major Jewish organization was let go less than a year into the job.