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Heather Perlov By BERNIE BELLAN Ten years ago Heather Perlov (who was Heather Oliphant at the time) was asked by a friend who knew how much...
author Jeffrey Veidlinger/book cover Review by MARTIN ZEILIG Pogrom is a Russian word meaning ‘‘to wreak havoc, to demolish violently,” says the online Holocaust Encyclopedia on...
Jacob Chochinov & milk wagon(source: Manitoba Historical Society)right: Isaac Colish (source: Jewish Heritage Centre) Introduction: Further to the list of Manitoba synagogues which you can find...
The Hebrew Friends Temple,still standing at 229 Pritchard Ave. (Read more about this building following the letters we haveresponding to our list of synagogues) By BERNIE...
Adeena LungenJewish Child & Family Service Holocaust Support Services By BERNIE BELLAN In 1933 the Jewish population of Europe was 9.5 million. Following the war it was...
Oy, Caramba! Edited by Ilan Stavans. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2016Reviewed by CARL ROSENBERG The world of Jewish communities in Latin America has only become widely...
Montage of Winnipeg synagoguesthat existed circa 1925 Further to our story about the Ashkenazie Synagogue proposing to repurpose itself, which you can read elsewhere on this...
Rabbi Matthew at the keyboard Asper Campus, Dec. 10, 2019 By BERNIE BELLAN This article first appeared in the Dec. 23, 2019 issue of The Jewish...
Irena Karshenbaum“Winnipeg Stories” published in 1974 By IRENA KARSHENBAUM We take for granted that books will always be available to buy, but in fact, many books...
Capt. Barry Leipsic By BERNIE BELLAN Over the years we’ve had many stories in this newspaper chronicling the stories of brave Jewish men and women who...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt By DAVID and MILTON AMMEL Special to The Jewish Post & News Attacks on Jews have seen a sharp upsurge in...
Jason Klapman By GERRY POSNER It started in Winnipeg on August 17, 1934 when a young 23-year-old man named Meyer Klapman married a young 22-year-old woman...