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Art and Scroll Studio featured guest on Wednesday January 18, 2023 – via Zoom By SHELLEY WERNER Laurie Wohl does the opposite of what you would...
Beginning with this column, we introduce to readers a new columnist, but someone whose name is likely familiar to many readers: Beatty Cohan (née Sair). Betty...
By Simone Cohen ScottBack in September, during the High Holy Days, the JP&N ran a short story by David R. Topper, senior scholar at the University...
People say that the Chinese came up with gambling around 2300 B.C. The game was straightforward and was played with tiles. Later, around 1931, the first...
Bitcoin is experiencing tremendous adoption in Canada lately. Most people are buying crypto for investment reasons. But some of them also want to use their coins...
By BERNIE BELLAN When it comes to Winnipeg Jews who were well known for selling watches and other time pieces a few names come to mind...
By MYRON LOVE Dr. Yoav Keynan is a man who wears many hats. The Israeli-born clinical scientist who specializes as the scientific director of the National...
By GERRY POSNER Thanks to former Winnipegger Murray Blank-stein, I was fortunate enough recently to obtain, read and savour a book just released on the life...
By Bernie Bellan The esports industry has seen significant growth in the last decade. There are tons of major esports tournaments held across the world. Some...
By Gerry Posner Ah yes, the Micay Family. Quite a bunch they were and are. For readers over 50, many will have vivid memories of Athlete’s...
By Myron Love For the past eight years, Fay and Avrom Charach have been opening their home to Jewish children in our community who are in...
By Martin Zeilig Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the team behind Mriya Report has been broadcasting live, 24/7,...
“A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness” – Jewish Proverb By Shelley Werner Art and Scroll Studio was created in 2020 to...
The Early Days of Las Vegas May 1905 marked the founding of Las Vegas. Las Vegas was not a typical city for 40 years; for most...
By MYRON LOVE At the age of 69, Haskel Greenfield, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Manitoba and co-director (with his wife, Professor Tina...
By GERRY POSNER I just had a first. My wife and I attended the first ever SASKATCHEWAN JEWISH ARTS FESTIVAL, held in Saskatoon from October 19- 23,...
By MARTIN ZEILIG Marsha Lederman was five years old when a straightforward question led, as she notes in her recently published book, “Kiss the Red Stairs…The Hol-ocaust...
By BRIAN PAULS Do you remember where you were when you heard the legendary Foster Hewitt utter those words, on September 28, 1972? I do. My...
By MYRON LOVE Thirty-five years ago, Meeka Walsh and her life partner, Robert Enright, took charge of a struggling arts magazine. Under their leadership, the duo transformed...
By BERNIE BELLAN In formulating ideas for writing this particular article I spent a considerable amount of time reading materials pertaining to Christian Zionism. I admit that I...