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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...
Megan Kravetsky (bottom row,centre) and her team at Blake’s Restaurant & Bar in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico By MYRON LOVE Talking to Megan Kravetsky last week reminded...
Lyle Smordin By MYRON LOVE As Lyle Smordin tells it, when he was eight or nine years old, his mother Ida decided that he should learn...
The 5 Jewish memmbers ofthe GrydPark team, left-right: Josh Donen, Zach Corne, Noah Gall, Josh Glow, Brett Koffman By BERNIE BELLAN Three years ago I wrote...
overhead view of Bredin Drive By GERRY POSNER There I was sitting in a restaurant, my first time in one in over a year. It was...
Haley K Turner We received a note from someone by the name of Haley Turner, who has a Winnipeg connection and wanted to let us know...
left-right: Robert, David & Manuel Matas By GERRY POSNER With all of the families in Winnipeg that have produced remarkable children in a variety of ways,...
Lloyd Friedman/Max Sucharov By MYRON LOVE With Remembrance Day just a couple of weeks away, it would seem to be appropriate to pause once again and...
l-r: Anne Novak, Sally Singer,Sol Fink, Ruth Zimmer By CAROL SEVITT (This article first appeared in The Globe & Mail. Reprinted with permission.) My mother and her...
Author Roxanne Van Iperencover of “The Sisters of Auschwitz” Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN In early August we received an email from a publicist for HarperCollins by...
David & Joan Genser By GERRY POSNER I am betting that many readers will remember the big furniture store on Portage Avenue – Genser’s. That store...
Ian and Rochelle Laing By MYRON LOVE When Rochelle Klasser first met Ian Laing in the early 1970s, she had just begun her career as a...
Lesley Hughescover of “The Dead Candidate’s Report” By BERNIE BELLAN How many times are we going to revisit a story that has already received more than...