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By HARRIS GULKOThe coronavirus causing COVID-19 was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 27, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan,...
Donner family circa 1094 By GERRY POSNER Many of us who have roots in Canada can trace our origins to Eastern Europe. It does not matter...
Laurence Wall CBC Radio newscaster Laurence Wall is the honoree of the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) 2020 Spring Tea in Ottawa. The tea, which was originally scheduled...
By GERRY POSNER I belong to a large and getting larger group of former Winnipeggers living in Toronto.
Gregory Hyman By BERNIE BELLANAt the beginning of May I posted to Facebook that anyone who had an interesting story about how someone was coping during...
Nancy Sinkoff’s “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History”, is the intellectual biography of one of the most interesting...
The late Tillie Goren By MYRON LOVE This story originally appeared in the March 25, 1992 issue of the JP&N. It recounts the incredible ability that...
Harry Haft – Holocaust survivor…& fighter! By MARTIN ZEILIG Harry Haft Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft is the firsthand testimony...
Mel Brooks By MARC BRODSKY (JTA) — Social distancing and staying inside is hard. Thankfully, accessing good things to watch during this time is not.
Prof. Deborah Lipstadt Reviewed by JOSEPH LEVEN Deborah Lipstadt is Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She has written five previous...
Harry Altman Elsewhere on this website you can read a story about the children of Jewish mobsters (https://jewishpostandnews.ca/20-features/3169-these-children-of-jewish-mobsters-were-kept-well-shielded-from-their-fathers-affairs).
Jewish nonprofits down $650 million By BEN SALES NEW YORK (JTA) — In the weeks after it became clear that the coronavirus pandemic would spark a...