By REBECA KUROPATWA
The Minor Illness & Injury Clinic, started up by emergency room doctors Norman Silver, Gerald Brennan, Erik Smith, and Amin Kabani, aided by medical technology consultant, David Berkowits, is now up and running, with the goal of changing how urgent care is delivered in Winnipeg.
By MYRON LOVE
When The Jewish Post & News last checked in with Milan Ackerman ten years ago, he was running a retail store specializing in purses in Charleswood. Today, as the manager for Russ, one of the world’s hottest rap performers, he is on top of the world – and travelling all over the world.
By SCOTT TAYLOR
Way back, when Zach Greenberg was about to be a 13-year-old football star with the Crescentwood Grizzlies (now the Corydon Comets), his father, Al and his mom, Tara, decided to give him a big surprise at his Bar Mitzvah.
By MYRON LOVE
The 12th annual Cancercare Manitoba Foundation Challenge for Life 20KM walk (or 200-minute workout) will be held in Assiniboine Park on Saturday, June 8, and several members of our Jewish community are – once again – among the leading fundraisers.
This year, the top-ranked “Jewish” team – as of last Wednesday – is Nancy’s Nightingales with over $11,000 raised as of last week. This year, Joanne Katz, one of the original team members is back – she was in Israel at this time last year – rejoining long time team members Connie Botelho, Harriet Lyons and Louise Raber. New this year is Rhonda Youell.
By BERNIE BELLAN
(Posted June 8, updated June 11 & 17) My nephew, Jeremy Cooperstock, is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, spending his academic sabbatical year in Jerusalem.
By MYRON LOVE
For Steven Schipper and Harvey Secter, the well-deserved honours keep on coming. The community leader and retiring Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director are two of six new inductees in the Order of Manitoba.
By BERNIE BELLAN
The Rady JCC has chosen finalists for Jewish Athlete of the Year. The winner will be announced at the Rady JCC Ken Kronson Sports Dinner, to be held June 18. The five finalists are:
Michael Akbashev – Judo; Serena Buchwald - Diving; Yohnatan Elizarov – Figure Skating; Sarah Jacobsohn – Ultimate Sports; and Yonatan Orolov – Baton Twirling.
By MYRON LOVE
On Wednesday, May 8, former Winnipeggers Hersh Shefrin and Marcia Nozick were back in their home town to accept Distinguished Alumni Awards from their alma mater, the University of Manitoba, in recognition of their efforts to help improve the lives of people in their adopted communities and beyond.
By BERNIE BELLAN
June 6th being the 75th anniversary of D-Day, our attention is called once again to remembering the valour of the men who were part of what became the largest armada ever to be assembled: The over 1600 ships that set sail from a number of different ports in England on June 6, 1944, and which carried over 156,000 soldiers who took part in the Allied invasion of Europe.
By BERNIE BELLAN
In what will be the fourth recent appointment of a Winnipeg-born rabbi to a pulpit in Winnipeg, Temple Shalom, Winnipeg’s liberal reform congregation, has announced that, as of July 1st, Allan Finkel will assume the role of rabbi of that congregation.
By BERNIE BELLAN
There is probably no date in history about which more has been written and more films produced than June 6, 1944. The week of June 1, the History Channel will be airing a new documentary titled “D-Day in 14 Stories”. (It will be re-aired on the History Channel on June 2 and 6th. It will also be aired on the entire Global Network on June 8.)
By BERNIE BELLAN
Pulitzer prize-winning NY Times columnist Bret Stephens was the 14th speaker in what has become an annual tradition in Winnipeg: the 14th Sol and Florence Kanee Distinguished Lecture Series, held once again at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue –this year on Monday, May 13.
