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The Little Synagogue on the Prairie trekking down an Alberta highway to Calgary, November 2008. Photo credit: Shel Bercovich By IRENA KARSHENBAUM Looking back, I can’t...
Itamar Ben Gvir/Tehila Friedman By JAMIE MICHAELS Ed. note: This article was sent to us before the latest round of coalition-forming attempts. In the pulsating balagan...
Morgan (Micay) & Levi VanDam We received the following email from Morgan VanDam: My name is Morgan Van Dam (formerly Micay), I’m living in Calgary, AB...
The following is taken from B’nai Brith Canada’s most recent audit of antisemitic incidents in Canada, which was released April 26:On average, more than seven antisemitic...
Melanie Martin By MYRON LOVE In 1993, then University of Manitoba physics student Melanie Schachter had the honour of being one of just two Canadian students...
By BERNIE BELLAN In what must have come as a shock, not only for members of Shaarey Zedek Congregation, but for most of Winnipeg’s Jewish community...
By BERNIE BELLAN After a summer in 2020 that saw our two Jewish sleepover camps have to cancel all overnight stays for campers, this summer, our...
Kayla Gordon/Keith Levit By BERNIE BELLAN Back in the fall – when our brief dalliance with the relatively loose Covid restrictions that had been in place...
Editor’s Introduction: Adina Horwich is a former Canadian (from Montreal) who’s been living in Israel for over 46 years. When the most recent war started Adina...
Bernice Marmel was born in Arran, Saskatchewan as Ethel Bernice Macklin. After moving to Winnipeg, she resided at the Winnipeg Jewish Orphanage and then went on...
Blog # 39 How’s that for… Opps. One of the ‘kosher’ Burger King outlets in Israel served a real cheeseburger. To a religious customer no less. The...
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear mother and grandmother, Liubov (Liuba) Dimerman, who died peacefully at the age of...