By BERNIE BELLAN
What would prompt an almost-90-year-old man to fly to Israel (at his own expense) and spend three weeks volunteering on an Israeli army base?
For Mickey Hoch volunteering for Sarel, which is an acronym of the Hebrew words meaning “service for Israel”, is something that he has been doing every two years for the past 15 years.
At a ceremony held Tuesday, March 26, at the Rady JCC, two veterans of the Winnipeg sports media scene were honoured for their contributions to the Jewish sports scene in Winnipeg.
Shortly after finishing high school in 2002, Alex Serebnitski came to Winnipeg with his family with one goal in mind – becoming a dentist.
Serebnitski comes from a family much involved in dentistry. His grandfather worked as a dental technician; his father started as a dental technician and is now a denturist.
Last spring, at the height of Winnipeg Jets playoff fever, Noah Palansky and his girlfriend were watching the game on a big screen while having drinks in a restaurant. To his amazement, Palansky recalls, an ad appeared onscreen promoting a rival restaurant and advertising the same drink he was imbibing at a lower price.
The ad gave Palansky the germ of an idea.
By MYRON LOVE
Emily Kalo first encountered antisemitism on a trip to Halifax. “I didn’t know what to do or say,” recalls the Gray Academy graduate who is currently a science student at the University of Manitoba.
Since that incident, Kalo has made it a point to learn how to counter anti-Israel and antisemitism on campus to the point where she has become the founding president of Winnipeg’s first Students Supporting Israel (SSI) chapter.
By BERNIE BELLAN
There was a mood of heightened anticipation as more than 200 audience members filed into the auditorium of the Jewish Learning Centre Thursday evening, March 28. After all, how many times do you have the opportunity to hear a 98-year-old give a talk – and, to add even more drama to the evening: tell the story how she became a spy in Germany for the allies?
By MYRON LOVE
One of the speakers at this year's Limmud, held the weekend of March 2-3 was Steven Schipper.
In November 2017 we published a story about young Winnipeg writer Jamie Michaels and his second foray into the world of graphic novels. In 2016 Jamie had found some success with his very funny - and often ribald graphic novel about a canoe trip he and two other Winnipeg buddies had taken down the Mississippi River. The title of that book was “Canoe Boys”.
By BERNIE BELLAN
A new study of Canadian Jews, based on telephone and in-person interviews conducted with 2,335 Canadian Jews between February and September 2018, has just been released.
Our community recently witnessed a remarkable drama, after a group of individuals identified one of the speakers at Limmud and Shabbat Across Winnipeg as part of an organization with opposing views on American policy related to Israel.
Anyone who followed Harvey Rosen’s writing over the years would have come to know that Harvey relied upon a great many sources when he wrote his column, but no one had ever been a greater source of information than Ernie Nairn.
By MYRON LOVE
For 30 years John Ginsburg was a respected professor of the University of Winnipeg. Since he retired in 2010, his interest has shifted from number to words. Over the past eight years, Ginsburg has turned out six novels, one book of short stories and one of children’s stories – with more on the way.
