The late Rabbi Zalman Schachter’s time in Winnipeg recalled at lively evening hosted by Jewish Heritage Centre
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.
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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.
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
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 JAY SHOFET
By BERNIE BELLAN
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.
By BERNIE BELLAN Although the David and Ruth Asper Early Learning Centre has been in operation for over four months now, it wasn’t until Tuesday, November 15 that it actually had an official opening.
It’s not something that some Jews may want to hear about, but for Israeli journalist Lia Tarachansky, owning up to certain aspects of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence is something that she does not want to be glossed over.
