By BERNIE BELLAN I have continued to discuss the matter of the huge numbers of Israelis who have come and are continuing to come to Winnipeg with many others – including Israelis themselves.
After some fits and starts, the Gwen Secter Centre finally has a new executive director ready to take over from retiring executive director Marilyn Regiec.
By BERNIE BELLAN
It was billed as an evening that would be devoted to “Rabbi Zalman Schachter and the Winnipeg origins of the Jewish Renewal Movement”.
Like just about everything else associated with the late Rabbi Schachter (who died in 2014 at the age of 90), it was an evening not without controversy.
The following release was issued by the JNF Manitoba-Saskatchewan on Dec. 8: The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Branch is proud to announce that Rabbi Alan Green, Senior Rabbi of Shaarey Zedek Congregation will be the 2017 Negev Gala honouree.
By BERNIE BELLAN I've been somewhat obsessed of late by the incredibly large influx of Russian Israelis into Manitoba, I was doing some further research into just how many Russian Israelis have come here in recent years.
I was able to find statistics from the Province of Manitoba for the years 2009-2014 which go to show a snapshot of just how huge the level of immigration from Israel to Manitoba has been.
Elsewhere on this website you can find an article about the history of the quota system at the University of Manitoba medical school. In response to that article we received the following letter from well-known historian Allan Levine:
By BERNIE BELLAN
Okay, the following story is not of earth-shaking importance…it’s just one of those typical kinds of stories that can work individuals like me into a high dudgeon.
It was on Monday, November 28 that I really noticed the ridiculous imbalance between reserved and non-reserved parking stalls in the Asper Campus parking lot. It was 9:30 a.m. and I was there to attend the Rady JCC wellness fair.
בהיותי מהגרת רוסיה-ישראלית, תושבת ויניפג כמעט 9 שנים, אני חושבת שאני מבינה את הסיבה להגירה מישראל לקנדה וכן, לסיבה שרובינו במקור מרוסייה יש בעיני גם השפעה לא קטנה אבל זה כבר נושא אחר
By EKA MEDNIKOV (English translatiion of Hebrew article)
Myself being a Russian – Israel immigrant and resident of Winnipeg for almost nine years, I believe that I can understand the reason for the high number of immigrants from Israel to Winnipeg.
By JAY SHOFET
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Over the past few weeks, more than 1,700 brush fires across Israel have destroyed homes, vehicles and countless irreplaceable personal possessions.
By BERNIE BELLAN
As part of the program looking at the history of Jewish physicians in Manitoba, well-known novelist Eva Wiseman gave a fascinating presentation on the quota system that was introduced by the former dean of the University of Manitoba medical school, Alvin Mathers, in 1932, and which was kept in place until 1945.
By BERNIE BELLAN B’nai Brith Camp, located on Town Island in Lake of the Woods since 1954, has embarked on the most ambitious capital campaign in the camp’s history.
