Michael Akbashev By BERNIE BELLANLast year we reported on the success that young Michael Akbashev had been enjoying as a 16-year-old judoka. This year, now 17...
Sydney and Ari Kay By MYRON LOVE Ari Kay is a normal, active 13-year-old. He works hard at school, enjoys playing basketball; he is a member...
Richard Lowy By MYRON LOVESince the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2005 designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – as...
John Diamond In a press release issued Thursday, January 30, the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba announced the appointment of John Diamond as its new CEO. Diamond...
By BERNIE BELLANOriginally published in the Feb. 5 issue of the JP&N The one story that has preoccupied me most in recent weeks has been the...
130 university students and young adults attended this year’s “Shabbat Unplugged” at the Hecla Island Resort the weekend of January 10-12. By MYRON LOVEThe fifth annual...
Attorney Noa Shein with survivor Aryeh Shotzky Credit: Sarit Uzieli By SHARON GELBACH The statistics are grim: a quarter of Holocaust survivors in Israel and a...
Easton Irving Lexier was born May 8, 1926, the first child for Jack and Lena Lexier of Winnipeg. Born sickly, baby Lexier received a blood transfusion...
It is with great sadness that the family of Larry Tabachnick announces his passing on January 13, 2020 at the age of 82. He was predeceased...
Former White Supremacist Elisa Hategan in a 2018 photo (left); and as a White Supremacist at a meeting of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front in June 1992...
Rabbi Allan Finkel By MYRON LOVEAccording to Rabbi Allan Finkel, there has been a long-standing pattern of denying the existence of addiction within the established Jewish...
Scarlett Johansson – nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Actress, “Marriage Story”; Best Supporting Actress, “Jojo Rabbit” By GABE FRIEDMAN(JTA) – The 2020 Oscar nominations are...