By BERNIE BELLAN
Rome was not built in a day – and neither was the brand new David and Ruth Asper Early Learning Centre! Scheduled to begin operations July 13, the day care centre will occupy what was formerly a fire hall at 1710 Grosvenor Avenue (between Renfrew and Lanark Streets).
By BERNIE BELLAN
The heyday of Jewish fraternities in Winnipeg would have been sometime in the early 1960s when there were three thriving fraternities here: The “Zebes” (Zeta Beta Tau); the “Sammies” (Sigma Alpha Mu); and AEPi (Alpaha Epsilon Pi, pronounced A-pie).
By SHARON LOVE
The opening concert of the eighth annual Mameloshen Festival of Yiddish Entertainment and Culture took place on Wednesday, June 15th, 2016. All three concerts were held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
It’s that time of year when, as has become our custom, we present previews of Fringe Festival plays that have somre sort of connection to things Jewish - no matter how tenuous that connection might be.
The following exchange refers to the Short takes column in the June 20 issue of The Jewish Post & News:
By BERNIE BELLAN
It takes a certain amount of courage to self-publish a book – also a willingness to commit to a financial investment that can vary from a fairly small amount to something much larger.
By BERNIE BELLAN
A firm known as Karma Developments is proposing to build a multi-family dwelling on land that is owned by the Asper Jewish Community Campus.
By MYRON LOVE For the past year, Bryan Klein has been focusing his fundraising activity almost entirely on our community’s annual CJA campaign.
By BERNIE BELLAN
Seven years ago The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada produced its most ambitious endeavour to date: the publication of historian Allan Levine’s seminal book chronicling the history of the Jews of Manitoba, Coming of Age - A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba.
By REBECA KUROPATWA What child has not thought about having a lemonade stand?
By BERNIE BELLAN The two pillars upon which Winnipeg's Jewish community rests have both announced that they enjoyed the most successful years in their respective histories.
By BENJI AZIZA
Instead of taking summer courses at the University of Manitoba this summer, I decided to apply for an internship at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.
