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cover-“Details are Unprintable”/Allan Levine By BERNIE BELLAN With everything else that’s been affected by COVID-19, launching a new book does present a new type of challenge...
Phil Klein of Bagelsmith By MYRON LOVE Budding entrepreneur Phil Klein goes full bagel within the next few weeks. The founder of Bagelsmith is optimistic as...
Laurie Cerqueti By BERNIE BELLAN As part of our continued commitment to reporting on how various agencies within the Jewish community are functioning during these exceptionally...
By MYRON LOVEIt has been said that a picture paints a thousand words and that is certainly true of the new wall mural on the south...
Dvora, Rabbi Mendel Altein & Chaya By MYRON LOVEThe Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Learning Centre is reaching out to Israelis living in Winnipeg with programming to be delivered...
Danielle Tabacznik By BERNIE BELLANWhen we last checked in with Danielle Tabacznik, she had just recently moved to Winnipeg in late 2016 to begin working as...
By BERNIE BELLANEarl Barish is a man who seems to thrive on taking on challenges – whether it’s resurrecting a troubled business or finding a way...
By BERNIE BELLANWith schools in Manitoba set to reopen on September 8, it goes without saying that there is an enormous amount of apprehension among both...
By MYRON LOVE The 13th annual Cancercare Manitoba Foundation Challenge for Life 20KM walk (or 200-minute workout) has a new look this year – as a...
Kroft family l-r: Steve, Nathan, Lisa & Alex By MYRON LOVESteven Kroft is an individual who believes in leading by example. Thus, the newly-anointed Chair of...
U of M Yiddish instructor Itay Zutra We received a note from the University of Manitoba’s Judaic Studies coordinator, Haskel Greenfield, asking whether we would help...
Sharon Graham By MARTIN ZEILIGThe Winnipeg Jewish Orphanage housed children from 1917 until 1948, and for a long portion of its existence it was served by...
Stand-up vegetable stand at Campus 2019 Last year, Yazidi newcomers to Manitoba operated a very successful pop-up vegetable stand outside the Asper Campus. Every Thursday, for...
a plot before weeding and one after By BERNIE BELLANIn previous issues we reported on changes the Shaarey Zedek had made to the maintenance of its...
By BERNIE BELLANImagine my surprise when, despite being told that the Jewish Foundation would not disclose how much funding specific organizations have received from the Foundation...
Shalom Residences’ Micah Kraut & Rabbi Yitzchok Charytan Ed. note: As part of our continuing effort to report on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has...
32-year-old Ari Hanson By MYRON LOVESeventeen years ago, a Gray Academy high school student by the name of Ari Hanson began doing volunteer work for the...
Abe Simkin in 2012 – age 90 With the death of Abe Simkin last month in California, the last surviving member of his generation of the...
Outdoor Kabbalat Shabbat service at Etz Chayim By MYRON LOVEIt is most definitely an understatement to say that this will be a yom tov like no...
residents of Simkin Centre early July By BERNIE BELLANEven though the Province of Manitoba has eased the rules governing personal care homes and how visitors...