By BERNIE BELLAN Becky Chisick has been in her job as the new executive director of Gwen Secter Centre at Syd Glow Place for a little over a month.
Click on this video link to see a heart-warming story about how a letter JP&N columnist Gerry Posner wrote to his hockey idol Red Kelly over 55 years ago resurfaced and led to Gerry's actually meeting Red: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/letter-red-kelly-story/
The following story is being updated on a regular basis as new information comes to light about what led to the Chief Medical Officer of St. Boniface Hospital being fired on January 20.
By BERNIE BELLAN We’ve been reporting on the slide in enrolment at the Gray Academy over the past four years: from 625 in 2012 to 486 this past September (a 22% drop).
By BERNIE BELLAN
(Originally posted Jan. 5; updated Jan. 29) It started with three former schoolmates who attended Talmud Torah (Winnipeg Hebrew School) and Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate deciding to form a Facebook group back in July of this year known as “1950s Winnipeg Talmud Torah and Peretz School students (and others)”.
By MYRON LOVE Kayla Gordon is best known in our community for her lifelong work in theatre.
Ed. note: We had posted a story about an event organized by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada back in December about the period in the life of the late Rabbi Zalman Schachter when he lived in Winnipeg. That story can be read elsewhere on this website at http://jewishpostandnews.ca/local/2224-the-late-rabbi-zalman-schachter-s-time-in-winnipeg-recalled-at-lively-evening-hosted-by-jewish-heritage-centre. That particular story elicited a response from the family of the late Rabbi Schachter:
By BERNIE BELLAN "The Devil in Jerusalem" is one of those books that, if you didn’t know it was based on a true story, would have to be thought of as being beyond believing. Yet, the author, Naomi Ragen, writes before the book begins: “This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.”
By RAFAEL MEDOFF/JNS.org WASHINGTON – A former State Department official’s new plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace is the latest in a long series of Foggy Bottom proposals for a Mideast solution that went nowhere.
By BEN COHEN/JNS.org
It's been clear for a long time that there is little difference between the character of terrorist attacks in Israel and those in the West more broadly. Trucks ram into crowds—as they did in Nice, Berlin and Jerusalem.
By BERNIE BELLAN
An incident happened in a Winnipeg neighbourhood on New Year’s Eve. A rock with anti-Semitic writing was left inside a gift bag and left on a homeowner’s step.
By TOM TUGEND LOS ANGELES (JTA) – When Kirk Douglas – actor, director, producer, author, philanthropist and Torah student – celebrated his 100th birthday on Friday, Dec. 9, there was a special treat in store for the centenarian.
