By Bernie Bellan Elsewhere on this website you can read about some of my findings re the 2021 census as they relate to the Jewish community of Winnipeg. At the end of my report I wrote that I...
By Bernie Bellan While there is no doubt that antisemitism is the issue of paramount concern to Jewish communities around the world, there is no shortage of news stories almost anywhere you look within Jewish media that are...
By Myron Love On Saturday, December 3, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will be featuring a program with a strong emphasis on music with Jewish connections – pieces for example such as Prokofiev’s “Over-ture on Hebrew Themes,” Joseph Achron’s...
By Gerry Posner Ah yes, the Micay Family. Quite a bunch they were and are.
For readers over 50, many will have vivid memories of Athlete’s Wear owned and operated for so many years by the late Nathan (...
By Myron Love For the past eight years, Fay and Avrom Charach have been opening their home to Jewish children in our community who are in need of foster care.“We had a child of our own at that...
WJT is delighted to announce Dan Petrenko as its new artistic director. Dan is incredibly thrilled to be joining the team at the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre as the youngest Artistic Director of a professional PACT theatre in the country! ...
By Martin Zeilig
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the team behind Mriya Report has been broadcasting live, 24/7, on Twitter Spaces—the modern equivalent to live global radio.
(Ed. note: Twitter Spaces is...
“A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness” - Jewish Proverb
By Shelley Werner Art and Scroll Studio was created in 2020 to celebrate the makers and creators of Judaic art. The format is a live...
The Early Days of Las Vegas May 1905 marked the founding of Las Vegas. Las Vegas was not a typical city for 40 years; for most of its existence, it was a sparsely-populated desert town, located some 80...
By BERNIE BELLAN The number of individuals in Winnipeg who report that their ethnic origin is Jewish has declined somewhat from the number reported in the 2011 National Household Survey (which was the last reliable report on the ethnic...
By MYRON LOVE According to that venerable Chinese sage Confucius, “a man who loves what he is doing never works a day in his life.”That maxim aptly describes Dr. Nathan Wiseman to a tee (no pun intended for an...
By BELLE JARNIEWSKI Last week, I was honoured to be present when our provincial government announced its adoption of the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) Working Definition of antisemitism. As a member of the IHRA Committee on Antisemitism...
By MYRON LOVE At the age of 69, Haskel Greenfield, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Manitoba and co-director (with his wife, Professor Tina Greenfield) of the university’s Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab, says that...
By BRUCE BROWN Israel ranked among the top five worst countries to work in, according to the William Russell International Insurance Agency. Really?! The survey says we work an average of 36.6 hours per week. Is that all? With...
By GERRY POSNER I just had a first. My wife and I attended the first ever SASKATCHEWAN JEWISH ARTS FESTIVAL, held in Saskatoon from October 19- 23, 2022. It was a joy to be there.
Now this joy was certainly...
By SIMONE COHEN SCOTT Nomi Yeshua occasionally passes through Canada representing the Jerusalem Foundation. Last summer she came through Winnipeg with Mayor Moshe Lion of Jerusalem. The delegation from Israel was thanking the Canadian donors who have helped to...
The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg applauds the adoption of framework to identify, understand, and combat antisemitism Submitted by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg: October 27, 2022 Manitoba became the sixth Canadian province to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)...
By MARTIN ZEILIG Marsha Lederman was five years old when a straightforward question led, as she notes in her recently published book, “Kiss the Red Stairs...The Hol-ocaust Once Removed” to “a horrifying answer.” Sitting in her kitchen, she asked...
By BRIAN PAULS Do you remember where you were when you heard the legendary Foster Hewitt utter those words, on September 28, 1972? I do. My wife Jeanne and I recall the moment very well. We were there...
By MYRON LOVE Thirty-five years ago, Meeka Walsh and her life partner, Robert Enright, took charge of a struggling arts magazine. Under their leadership, the duo transformed the renamed “Border Crossings” into an award-winning and internationally known arts publication...
(JTA) — Australian-Jewish teenager Harry Sheezel made headlines Monday for getting drafted into the Australian Football League and for facing a barrage of online...
(JTA) — Two weeks after feting Donald Trump as America’s most pro-Israel president ever, the Zionist Organization of America had harsh words for the...
(JTA) — Michelle Williams is one of the only non-Jewish actors with a starring role in “The Fabelmans,” director Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film based...
(JTA) — Itamar Ben-Gvir, the right-wing Israeli politician called a “pyromaniac” by his critics because of his penchant for inflaming his country’s deep tensions,...
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — The year was 1968. Young people from around the country were descending on San Francisco looking...
