YOHNATAN ELIZAROV with his skating partner AVA KEMP By MYRON LOVE Yohnatan Elizarov may well be on the threshold of a dream career. Fresh from winning...
Music Festival entrants, clockwise from top left: Yale Rayburn-Vander Hout,Hannah Schaeffer, Zoe Reider, Gregory Hyman By MYRON LOVE Regular readers of The Jewish Post & News...
Jaron Rykiss By BERNIE BELLAN Twenty-year-old Jaron Rykiss is the newly elected president of the University of Manitoba Students Union. The results of the election, which...
Posted April 10 The Simkin Centre is continuing to deal with a major outbreak of Covid cases among residents. There are now 22 positive cases reported...
Outgoing Shalom Residencesexecutive director Nancy Hughes/ incoming executive director Michael Goldberg By BERNIE BELLAN The longest-serving current executive director of any of the Jewish Federation’s beneficiary...
Alexey Grenier with his twochildren, Nelly (left) and Mark on a visit to Ukraine this past September By BERNIE BELLAN With the war in Ukraine still...
Oscar Antel By MYRON LOVE Growing up in Winnipeg, Oscar Antel recalls, Yiddish was the every day language of our community. And, while there are few...
Alan Slusky By MYRON LOVE In his practice of psychology, Dr. Alan Slusky cites his late father, Irvin Slusky, as his role model. “My father was...
screenshot taken from Avi Posen’sLimmud presentation on March 6when he discussed how much young people are wedded to social media By BERNIE BELLAN Elsewhere on this...
Winnipeg’s two largest congregations, Shaarey Zedek, and Etz Chayim, have announced that they are taking similar approaches to reopening, even though the Province of Manitoba has...
By BERNIE BELLAN The Jewish Federation has been accepting donations on behalf of Ukrainian Jews. As of Friday, March 18, the Federation had received $150,000 in...
Avi & Illana Posen,with newborn Lielle By BERNIE BELLAN In 2019 former Gray Academy educator Avi Posen, along with his wife, the former Illana Minuk, made aliyah...
clockwise from top left:Beit AmHSBA Gardens Shalom Gardens Rosh Pina Housing Co-op Three have had open and fair admission policies throughout their histories, but now there...
Naomi Ragencover of her latest novel By BERNIE BELLAN The following information is taken from Naomi Ragen’s website: “Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist, playwright and...
clockwise from top left:Abby Flackman, Ian Baruch Evelyn Orlovitz By MYRON LOVE It is a healthy sign when an organization – such as the Jewish Federation...
In recent issues of The Jewish Post & News we’ve been debating whether the Simkin Centre needs to remain a fully kosher facility. Following are a...
4 new Queen’s Counsel appointeesclockwise from top left: Brenlee Carrington Trepel, Jonathan Kroft, Leilani Kagan, Richard Buchwald Honorary Title Recognizes Exceptional Merit in Law Profession: Goertzen...
Greg Brodsky Z”L By BERNIE BELLAN The news of the passing of legendary lawyer Greg Brodsky has already been well reported in various news media.But, aside...
Haskel Greenfield By MARTIN ZEILIG Haskel Greenfield has spent a good deal of his professional life as an archeologist attempting to uncover the mysteries of the...
Gustavo Zentner By MYRON LOVE You might say that community involvement is part of Gustavo Zentner’s DNA. The new president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg...