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By SHARON LOVE The Festival of New Yiddish Culture ‘Put A Yid On It’ is on from February 7th to the 11th, 2024. As stated in...
By GERRY POSNER There haven’t been lot of Jewish presidents of Canadian universities.To be clear, there have been some, but not as many as one might...
By MYRON LOVE Dr. Lev Bubis, the Health Sciences Centre’s new hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgeon, says that he and his family –wife, Amy, and four-year-old daughter, Ada,...
By SHIRA NEWMAN – Festival Director I am thrilled to announce the inaugural year of ‘Put a Yid on It’ Festival of New Yiddish Culture, running...
By BERNIE BELLAN Schmoozer’s restaurant at the Asper Campus is now under the management of the Shaarey Zedek catering department.Apparently, according to Curtis Martin, Executive Director...
By BERNIE BELLAN From time to time I lead a discussion group at the Simkin Centre with residents there. It was when I was doing that...
By MYRON LOVE “Growing up [in River Heights], I was always a girlie girl,” recalls social influencer Shayna Wiwierski. “I loved dressing up and doing my...
By BERNIE BELLAN Are Canada’s hate speech laws at all effective in combating what has been an outpouring of anti-Semitism since the Hamas massacre of October...
By BERNIE BELLAN As we near year’s end we are still living through what is arguably the most difficult period in Israel’s history since the War...
By BERNIE BELLAN The Covid pandemic affected all our Jewish organizations, but none more so than the Rady JCC. It’s been a steady road back though...
By BERNIE BELLAN Over 500 people had registered to attend the memorial for slain peace activist and former Winnipegger Vivian Silver on Thursday evening, December 14,...
By BERNIE BELLAN At its Annual General Meeting, held December 6, the Jewish Federation reported a surplus of $110,916 for the 2022-23 fiscal year (which ended...
By BERNIE BELLAN Winnipeg-born Brayden Bernstein – a graduate of both Gray Academy and the Asper School of Business, has just completed his latest project: a...
On Thursday, December 7, the Manitoba Legislature Rotunda was the scene for a Chanukah celebration featuring Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew lighting the shamash candle. Approximately 100...
By BERNIE BELLAN The emergence of antisemitism on university campuses on Canada since the Hamas massacre of October 7 has shocked and saddened much of the...
We were alerted to a new online store opened by Val Benevet, who has a strong background in marketing. The store, called SHALOM CUSTOM DESIGNS, is...
By MYRON LOVE On October 6, Maya Weinrich, a third-year student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Medical School for International Health (MSIH), was preparing to...
Carson Mellon, who was one of two youth ambassadors for Shalom Square this past summer, has been appointed Folklorama Ambassador General for 2024.We asked Carson to...
By MYRON LOVE On Wednesday November 15, the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFT Canada) celebrated the 25th National Philanthropy Day –...
By BERNIE BELLAN After 71 years of serving as the home for first the Rosh Pina Synagogue, then for the past 21 years as the home...