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By BERNIE BELLAN Quite often I’m asked by individuals who the audience for our paper is? I try to be as honest as possible in describing...
Shireen Abu Akleh By ZEV COHEN The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran, well-known and popular journalist working for Al-Jazeera while covering an IDF operation...
By BERNIE BELLAN After over five weeks of constantly turning to CBC Radio news and checking my iPhone or iPad for regular updates on the war...
By BERNIE BELLAN At the time of writing we are now in the fourth week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.As we all recoil from the...
Dr. Philip Berger By Dr. PHILIP BERGER Special to The Jewish Post & News Some organizations and persons holding themselves out to be progressive have grown...
Dr. Phillip Berger By Dr. Phillip Berger Special to The Jewish Post & News When I was ten years old in Winnipeg, a classmate asked me,...
Shea Ritchie, owner of Chaise Lounge (on Provencher & Corydon) – posted a Facebook video that compared anti- vaxxers to Holocaust victims By BERNIE BELLAN To...
By BERNIE BELLAN Every few years within the past few years it seems, a Jewish organization in Winnipeg terminates the employment of some senior executive within...
Rabbi Matthew Leibl By BERNIE BELLAN Two ongoing stories have certainly led to a fair bit of conjecture within Winnipeg’s Jewish community as to whether there’s...
Bernie Bellan By BERNIE BELLAN In 2009 the total value of all endowment funds held at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba represented just a little more...
Jamie Michaels By JAMIE MICHAELS The current discourse on Israel-Palestine is killing our ability to think. The pattern is a depressingly familiar one. Tensions escalate. Hamas...
By GARY ROSENBLATT June 11, 2021 (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Whether this week marks the last of Benjamin Netanyahu’s record-setting tenure as prime...
An uneasy alliance l-r: Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett, Mansour Abbas By JAMIE MICHAELS The signatures are on paper. The ink is drying. The reign of King...
Jamie Michaels/Saeed Moussa By JAMIE MICHAELS (Ed. note: Jamie’s submission arrived one day before the ceasefire between Gaza and Israel took effect.) I begin by expressing my...
Phil Spevack By PHIL SPEVACK Back GroundIn 1948, one day after Britain gave up its mandate for Palestine and allowed the UN partition the Jewish State...
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...
Bernie Bellan/”Chris Sky” By BERNIE BELLAN The Covid pandemic has often led to the convergence of several wacky conspiracy theories into one larger massive conspiracy theory,...
By BERNIE BELLAN As if there weren’t more important issues in the world to consider, debating the merits of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has now...
Charlie Angus/Leah Gazan Introduction: Earlier this month two NDP Members of Parliament, Charlie Angus and Leah Gazan, raised the hackles of many individuals by suggesting that...
By BERNIE BELLAN The Simkin Centre has certainly been on the minds of many readers of this paper over the past few weeks – in both...