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By GERRY POSNER Add yet another name to the list of Winnipeg Jews who became psychiatrists and who have achieved fame elsewhere. I speak of none...
(Nov. 27, 2024) By Joel Ceausu (Canadian Jewish News) François Legault wants Valérie Plante to get her house in order. Speaking to reporters in Quebec City...
By GERRY POSNER When you talk medicine and family connections to medicine, one of the families you have to think of almost immediately is the Berbrayer-...
By MYRON LOVE Almost everyone has a story to tell. And, for the past 25-plus years, the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba – through its ongoing Endowment...
By MYRON LOVE Congregational leaders in our community are, for the most part, quite pleased with Tom Tov attendance this past Yom Tov.“We sold out our...
By SIMONE COHEN SCOTT Last summer at the JNF Breakfast for Israel at Camp Massad, I met the camp’s executive director, Danial Sprintz. We had a...
By BERNIE BELLAN David Matas has achieved world-wide recognition for his life-long work advocating on behalf of repressed minorities throughout the world. Yet, as the same...
The latest stamp from Canada Post features a 19th-century hanukkiyah now housed in Montréal museum MONTRÉAL – Canada Post is unveiling its latest stamp, which commemorates the...
By ELLEN BESSNER (Canadian Jewish News) November 10, 2024 Jewish National Fund of Canada has lost its first major legal battle to stop the tax department’s...
By MYRON LOVE On May 2, 2023, the Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF), the Vickar Automotive Group and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev signed a Donor Pledge...
By MYRON LOVE I have to admit that it has been years – even decades – sine I last took a bus. In my younger days,...
By MYRON LOVE After a year’s effort, the former Dickie Dee building turned Chai Folk Ensemble rehearsal space at 531 Notre Dame Avenue has been transformed...
By MYRON LOVE Every year, as part of Homecoming Week celebrations, the University of Manitoba recognizes a group of alumni who have distinguished themselves in their...
On November 3rd, JNF Canada sent an urgent appeal to supporters to contact their Members of Parliament to ask for their intervention in an effort to...
By BERNIE BELLAN Shai Davidai has established a reputation as a university professor who isn’t afraid to challenge what he perceives as unmitigated antisemitism – whether...
By MYRON LOVE Lindsay Kerr, the newly-appointed Hillel Winnipeg director says that – after having experienced Jewish life on both the east and west coasts –...
By MYRON LOVE Ed Calnitsky has recently added a notable entry to his resumé. At an age when most individuals—myself excluded—are contemplating retirement, the accomplished architect...
By MYRON LOVE Ophthalmologist Dr. Lorne Bellan, Winnipeg’s first oculoplastic surgeon has retired. He stepped down at the end of June after a career spanning almost...
(Oct. 12, 2024 / JNS) A “firearm discharge” from a car targeted Bais Chaya Mushka Girls Elementary School in Toronto at 4:05 a.m. on Yom Kippur,...
By MYRON LOVE Although she has only been in Winnipeg for five years, young Israeli-born artist Mishelle Aminov Kosonovsky has already drawn much positive attention in...