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Gray Academy has gone eight months with not one single case of COVID

Grade 9 math class, with teacher
also teaching students in
room across hall via Google Meet

over 675 cases in other Manitoba schools

By BERNIE BELLAN
While Manitobans can rightfully be said to be in a state of shock over how this province has gone from having one of the best records anywhere at keeping COVID at bay to now having one of the worst in Canada, the focus has very much been on the tragic situations in many personal care homes.

Read more: Gray Academy has gone eight months with not one single case of COVID

JNF holds successful online event - with home-delivered nosh thrown in

Danny Greaves of "The Watchmen"
was one of the performers

By MYRON LOVE
On Sunday, November 15, Jewish National Fund (JNF) chapters across Canada “hosted” “A Night of 100 Dinners” during which participants received in their homes a mix of nosherei and watched a virtual performance featuring YidLife Crisis and a host of other celebrities. David Greaves, the JNF’s executive director for Manitoba and Saskatchewan, reports that the Winnipeg response exceeded expectations.

Read more: JNF holds successful online event - with home-delivered nosh thrown in

Leipsics - father Peter, son Jonathon, lead annual campaigns in Winnipeg & Vancouver

Jonathan Peter Leipsic 
Jonathon (left) & Peter Leipsic

By REBECA KUROPATWA

Father and son, Peter Leipsic and Jonathon Leipsic, are chairing the Jewish Federation annual campaigns in their respective hometowns. Peter is co-chair, with Neil Duboff, of the Winnipeg fundraising effort, while Jonathon is in his third consecutive year of leading the fundraising here in Vancouver.

Read more: Leipsics - father Peter, son Jonathon, lead annual campaigns in Winnipeg & Vancouver

Canadian Associates of Ben Gurion University announce two new co-chairs

Deandra Etkin/Aaron Migie

The Winnipeg Chapter of Canadian Associates of Ben Gurion University of the Negev (CABGU) is delighted to announce the appointments of two new co-chairs: Diandra Etkin and Aaron Migie.

Read more: Canadian Associates of Ben Gurion University announce two new co-chairs

“Artist” is latest incarnation for Winnipeg entrepreneur Jerry Rubin

Jerry Rubin 
Jerry Rubin at the International Gallery
in Puerto Vallarta, where he
is the “artist-in-residence”

By MYRON LOVE
Jerry Rubin has reinvented himself many times during the course of his life. At various times, he has been an elementary school teacher (35 years working in the Seven Oaks School Division), owned an ice cream parlour, had a food manufacturing business, ran a concession at the Red River Ex, manufactured decorative shelving, owned a national jewelry import and distribution company with 1,700 retail outlets in Canada, did home renovations, ran an online marketing company, and been a marketing consultant for a division of K-Tel.

Read more: “Artist” is latest incarnation for Winnipeg entrepreneur Jerry Rubin

Montreal Jewish nursing home hit hard by COVID infections in 2nd wave

Maimonodes Geriatric Centre
It's not just the Simkin Centre that's a Jewish nursing home being battered by COVID
By DAVID LAZARUS 
Nov. 25, 2020  MONTREAL (JTA) — A prominent Jewish nursing home in Montreal has seen dozens of residents and staffers infected by COVID-19 amid the second wave of the pandemic to hit Quebec.
Read more: Montreal Jewish nursing home hit hard by COVID infections in 2nd wave

Longtime human rights activist Irwin Cotler named as Canada’s first envoy in anti-Semitism fight

Irwin Cotler 
Irwin Cotler (left)
(Brendan Sialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

BY RON KAMPEAS

Nov. 25, 2020 (JTA) — Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and a human rights activist, is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s choice as his nation’s first envoy to combat anti-Semitism.

Read more: Longtime human rights activist Irwin Cotler named as Canada’s first envoy in anti-Semitism fight

This Chanukah - bring a concert directly to your front yard!

Bryan (left) & David Borzykowski

Have your own Chanukah concert right outside your door featuring the talented Borzykowski Brothers: Bryan & David.

Read more: This Chanukah - bring a concert directly to your front yard!

Is the Manitoba government deliberately underreporting COVID cases in the downtown area?

The type of bar graph the Man. government uses to show numbers of COVID cases
By BERNIE BELLAN

I’ve been keeping track of the number of new COVID cases that the Manitoba government has been reporting on the website where it provides information on COVID: https://www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/cases.html

Read more: Is the Manitoba government deliberately underreporting COVID cases in the downtown area?

Mystery of why $725,000 donation to the Simkin Centre was made is likely solved

Neal Karlen
Myer Geller/house at 284 Bannerman
when he attended St. John's Tech

By BERNIE BELLAN
Readers of this website may recall our story posted a couple weeks ago in which we told about a $725,000 donation that was given to the Simkin Centre by something called the Myer and Corrine Geller Trust.

Read more: Mystery of why $725,000 donation to the Simkin Centre was made is likely solved

Former Winnipegger Mira Sucharov bares her soul in new memoir

Mira Sucharov/book cover

Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
There’s something strangely compelling about reading the memoir of a talented individual who has decided to lay it all out for total strangers to discover some of her innermost secrets.

Read more: Former Winnipegger Mira Sucharov bares her soul in new memoir

Jewish Foundation allocates third phase of COVID-19 relief funding

Jewish Foundation logoBy BERNIE BELLAN
The Jewish Foundation has now completed the third phase of emergency funding for local Jewish organizations, which it first announced last April. Click "Read More" to see a table of all Jewish Foundation grants given since April under the Foundation's emergency funding:

Read more: Jewish Foundation allocates third phase of COVID-19 relief funding

Gwen Secter online concert series fill much needed role in community’s cultural life

Karla Berbrayer introducing singer
Aaron Hutton in Concert #4 of
Gwen Secter Concert Series

By BERNIE BELLAN
It’s been almost eight months since the province imposed the first lockdown due to the COVID pandemic. While we’ve had our fair share of stories in this paper about how the pandemic has affected so many of us, we’ve also been trying to avoid dwelling on the terrible toll it’s taken.

Read more: Gwen Secter online concert series fill much needed role in community’s cultural life

Former Temple Shalom member’s spiritual journey leading to rabbinical career

Rebecca Chess

By MYRON LOVE
Rebecca Chess credits their home congregation – Temple Shalom – with starting their Jewish spiritual journey that is leading them to a life as a rabbi.

Read more: Former Temple Shalom member’s spiritual journey leading to rabbinical career

Some reflections on the Simkin Centre and saying good riddance to the narcissist-in-chief

Bernie newBy BERNIE BELLAN

The Simkin Centre has certainly been on the minds of many readers of this paper over the past few weeks - in both a very positive way when it comes to hearing about the huge donation given to that institution totally out of the blue, but also in a much more worrying way as we learn of a number of incidents of COVID there, and the sad news of two deaths of residents from COVID.

Read more: Some reflections on the Simkin Centre and saying good riddance to the narcissist-in-chief

Dr. Earl Hershfield and Inuit Bobbie Suluk: Connecting over time

Dr. Earl Hershfield (left)/Edward Nibgoarsi,
father of Earl's patient, Bobby Suluk

By SUSAN TURNER
In March 1971, 15-year-old Bobbie Suluk was medevaced from his home in Eskimo Point, North West Territories, to the D.A. Stewart Centre Respiratory Hospital in Winnipeg. He had pneumonia, and Eskimo Point’s medical clinic, built in 1960, did not have suitable resources for treatment.

Read more: Dr. Earl Hershfield and Inuit Bobbie Suluk: Connecting over time

Medics are unsung heroes on the battlefield

author Ted Barris/book cover

“Rush To Danger: Medics In The Line of Fire”
By Ted Barris
(HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 406 pg. $32.99)
Reviewed by MARTIN ZEILIG

During the Second World War, Alex Barris was a front line medic with the 319th Medical Battalion of the United States 94th Infantry Division in Europe.

Read more: Medics are unsung heroes on the battlefield

Winnipeg’s Ari Glikman just back from his time in Israel amidst Covid-19

Ari Glikman at a Magen
David Adom training course

By REBECA KUROPATWA

When Ari Glikman (22) decided to take some time off his studies at the University of Manitoba to go to learn in Israel for a semester at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Covid-19 was not yet on the world’s radar.

Read more: Winnipeg’s Ari Glikman just back from his time in Israel amidst Covid-19

Simkin Centre receives $725,000 gift from mysterious donor

The mysterious Myer Geller. Did he
have a relative in the Sharon Home?

By BERNIE BELLAN
(Posted Oct. 29, updated Oct. 30, Oct.31)

On Oct. 21 we received an email from the Simkin Centre informing us that the centre had received a gift of $725,000 from someone about whom they know almost nothing.

Read more: Simkin Centre receives $725,000 gift from mysterious donor

Jack London’s memoir an entertaining, as well as an educational read

Jack London

Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN
When Jack London set out to write his memoir, he told a Zoom audience Wednesday, October 15, he went through 27 different drafts before arriving at the final version.
The result is an absorbing story, titled "Serendipity: My Path Through Life and Law".

Read more: Jack London’s memoir an entertaining, as well as an educational read

Some of the most important years in my life were spent as a Topper in AZA

Toppers jacket edited 1
Gerry Posner/62-year-old Toppers jacket
belonging to Dr. Irv Tessler

Editor’s introduction: Elsewhere on this website we have a story about Elliot Rodin. During the course of one of our conversations Elliot remarked that his years spent in AZA were among the most important in his life. Elliot suggested that the subject of AZA would be one that Gerry Posner would be well suited to tackle.

Read more: Some of the most important years in my life were spent as a Topper in AZA

Jaron Rykiss’s half-year spent on exciting “Kivunim” program in Israel cut short by COVID

Jaron with monk 
Jaron Rykiss (left) with a monk 
visiting Kivunim in Jersualem

By BERNIE BELLAN
In 2019 Winnipegger Jaron Rykiss embarked on what, for almost any recent high school graduate, would probably be considered the adventure of a lifetime.

Jaron, who had just graduated from Gray Academy in the spring of last year (and doesn’t that seem like an eternity ago, even though it’s really only a little more than a year and a half ago?), had decided to enroll in a program that is probably not all that familiar to many Winnipeggers, known as “Kivunim”.

 

 

Read more: Jaron Rykiss’s half-year spent on exciting “Kivunim” program in Israel cut short by COVID

Winnipeg Jewish community’s newest centenarian gets surprise party at the Shaftesbury

100-year-old Ruth Gutkin

By MYRON LOVE
With her 100th birthday approaching, Ruth Gutkin was resigned to a low key affair due to the Covid situation. However, her younger son, Donald, had other ideas – such that the Shaftesbury Retirement Home resident was more than pleasantly surprised by what actually transpired.

Read more: Winnipeg Jewish community’s newest centenarian gets surprise party at the Shaftesbury

First report of COVID at Simkin Centre

Simkin Centre logoThe following was received Thursday, October 22, 2020:

Late yesterday afternoon we were notified that one of our Residents tested positive for Covid-19. The affected Resident has been moved to our Adult Day Program space which has been designated as our Covid-19 Isolation Unit.

Read more: First report of COVID at Simkin Centre

The Bermax saga takes a new twist - Is returning to Israel the Berents' next step?

the former Bermax Caffée

By BERNIE BELLAN
As reported in various media on October 6, the three members of the Berent family: father Alexander, mother Oxana, and son Maxim, are all now living in Los Angeles, having gone there in January of this year.

Read more: The Bermax saga takes a new twist - Is returning to Israel the Berents' next step?

Dolphins Swim Club looking for new members

Michelle & Alex of Dolphins Swim Club

Submitted by ALEX SHOGOLEV
We are a medium sized team that has expanded from Selkirk to Winnipeg. Michelle (Head Coach) and I have discussed and agreed that this move will create a spark within the swimming community; by showcasing that two locations can act as one unit. We have created a program that includes our non-competitive (Dolphins Swim School) and competitive (PODs 1-3) program.

Read more: Dolphins Swim Club looking for new members

Josh Morry – outstanding young University of Manitoba alumnus: Becoming a change agent who inspires a new dialogue

Josh Morry

Reprinted with permission from UM Today The Magazine
Seven years later, Josh Morry still remembers the unsettling phone call he answered that one day in 2013. It was from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
“Things are out of control,” the man told him. “It’s time you had a bodyguard follow you around campus.”

Read more: Josh Morry – outstanding young University of Manitoba alumnus: Becoming a change agent who...

Winnipeg Conservative/Reform congregations’ virtual Yom Tov services very well received

zoom logo1 edited 1By MYRON LOVE
Due to a combination of government-imposed limitations on numbers and many people’s reticence in attending religious services because of Covid, our community’s congregations were forced to rethink their usual High Holiday services.

Read more: Winnipeg Conservative/Reform congregations’ virtual Yom Tov services very well received

JNF Manitoba/Saskatchewan president Nola Lazar slated to be next president of Mercaz Canada

Nola Lazar

By MYRON LOVE
These are challenging times that we live in – but Nola Lazar, the current president of JNF Manitoba/Saskatchewan has proven over the years that she is up to the challenge. If the presidency of the local Jewish National Fund operation is not enough heavy lifting, she is also slated to be stepping into the same position on a national level with Mercaz Canada – the Zionist voice of Conservative Judaism in Canada – as soon as her term as JNF president here comes to a close.

Read more: JNF Manitoba/Saskatchewan president Nola Lazar slated to be next president of Mercaz Canada

Allan Levine combines his ability as a historian with his talent as a novelist in his latest book

Allan Levine & cover of his latest book

By BERNIE BELLAN
Winnipeg’s own Allan Levine has established himself as an award-winning author of non-fiction history – with probably the book best-known to Winnipeg audiences being Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba, which was published in 2009.

Read more: Allan Levine combines his ability as a historian with his talent as a novelist in his latest book

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