Before he died, Alex Trebek had taped a series of “Jeopardy” shows. On Nov. 30 that day’s episodefeatured a number of Yiddish expressions By LIOR ZALTZMANThis...
Frank Rosenthal/Robert De Niro The character of Sam Rothstein in the movie “Casino”was based on Rosenthal By STEPHEN SILVER(JTA) — “Casino,” Martin Scorsese’s examination of the...
Gail Singer By GERRY POSNERI have often written in this paper about the huge contribution that Winnipeg Jews have made to the arts. To tackle this...
Celia Rabinovitchcover of “Duchamp’s Pipe” By SIMONE COHEN SCOTTI first began to write this piece as a review of Celia Rabinovitch’s recently launched book “Duchamp’s Pipe,...
Eternal lights (top l-r): Chesed Shel Emes, Shaarey Zedek, Rosh Pina 1893 Bottom (l-r): Chavurat Tefilah,Temple Shalom, Simkin Centre By SUSAN TURNERIn November, we left Daylight...
Sandy Shefrin Rabin/book cover By BERNIE BELLANOne of the great joys of being in the position of editor of a Jewish newspaper is being on the...
By BRAD CHENKIS My father, Boris Chenkis, is owner of After Five Fashions in Vancouver. He has always been fascinated by retail news from other countries....
Jonathon (left) & Peter Leipsic By REBECA KUROPATWA Father and son, Peter Leipsic and Jonathon Leipsic, are chairing the Jewish Federation annual campaigns in their respective...
Jerry Rubin at the International Gallery in Puerto Vallarta, where he is the “artist-in-residence” By MYRON LOVEJerry Rubin has reinvented himself many times during the course...
Ari Glikman at a MagenDavid Adom training course By REBECA KUROPATWA When Ari Glikman (22) decided to take some time off his studies at the University...
author Ted Barris/book cover “Rush To Danger: Medics In The Line of Fire”By Ted Barris(HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 406 pg. $32.99)Reviewed by MARTIN ZEILIG During the Second...
Mira Sucharov/book cover Reviewed by BERNIE BELLANThere’s something strangely compelling about reading the memoir of a talented individual who has decided to lay it all out...