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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...
Dr. Earl Hershfield (left)/Edward Nibgoarsi, father of Earl’s patient, Bobby Suluk By SUSAN TURNERIn March 1971, 15-year-old Bobbie Suluk was medevaced from his home in Eskimo...
Gerry Posner/62-year-old Toppers jacket belonging to Dr. Irv Tessler Editor’s introduction: Elsewhere on this website we have a story about Elliot Rodin. During the course of...
Jaron Rykiss (left) with a monk visiting Kivunim in Jersualem By BERNIE BELLANIn 2019 Winnipegger Jaron Rykiss embarked on what, for almost any recent high school graduate,...
Jack London Reviewed by BERNIE BELLANWhen Jack London set out to write his memoir, he told a Zoom audience Wednesday, October 15, he went through 27...
Richard & Lucy (Mausovich) Lipari with “The Genghis Code” By MYRON LOVEFormer Winnipegger Lucy Manusovich Lipari, educator and construction company executive, has now added author to...
Seth Klein & cover of his book about climate change Review/Interview by MARTIN ZEILIGThere are parallels between our wartime experience and the climate current crisis, maintains...
Allan Levine & cover of his latest book By BERNIE BELLANWinnipeg’s own Allan Levine has established himself as an award-winning author of non-fiction history – with...
Neal Karlen (right) and cover of his book about Prince By STEPHEN SILVER (JTA) — In the late 1960s, when Neal Karlen was not even 10...
clockwise from top left: Shelley Werner, Michele Doctoroff & Caron Glickman By MAXINE FISCHBEIN(AJNews) – For many of us, three silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Nola Lazar By MYRON LOVEThese are challenging times that we live in – but Nola Lazar, the current president of JNF Manitoba/Saskatchewan has proven over the...