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Rabbi Lyle Fishman By RABBI LYLE FISHMAN (JNS) Countless times I have officiated at funeral and burial services since August 1984, when I came to Ohr...
David Zitzerman By GERRY POSNER Winnipeg has turned out men and women who have achieved fame in all sort of areas, especially the world of entertainment....
Rabbi Peretz Weitzman, z’l This story originally appeared in our paper in 2010: Lodz-born rabbi celebrating 90th birthdayBy PAUL LUNGEN TORONTO – When Rabbi Peretz Weizman...
The Dybbuk is one of the most famous Yiddish plays and films. Written by S. Anski before World War One, the Dybbuk is a spirit of...
Daniel Raiskin By BERNIE BELLAN Daniel Raiskin has been the music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra since 2018. This paper has been remiss not to...
Alexander Laak (supplied)/Soviet file photo By BERNIE BELLAN The story of an alleged Nazi war criminal by the name of Alexander Laak, who was found hanging...
Lisa Novick Greenberg/John Novick By BERNIE BELLANWhat’s it like growing up the child of a mobster – and a Jewish mobster to boot?The idea of stringing...
By BEN HARRIS April 3, 2020 (JTA) — As the coronavirus pandemic forces Jews around the world to contemplate a Passover holiday in which large family...
Jonas Chernick By BERNIE BELLANElsewhere on this website we have an article about a new movie, titled “JAMES VS. HIS FUTURE SELF”, which was slated to...
Rabbi Seth Winberg March 25, 2020 WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) — Like so many others, I am feeling the spiritual loss and pain of our current inability...
By Rabbi YOSEF BENARROCH, Adas-Yeshurun Herzlia Congregation These have been trying times. The coronavirus has changed our lives in a way we never imagined. But there...
Jonas Chernick (left) & Daniel Stern in a scene from “JAMES VS. HIS FUTURE SELF” By BERNIE BELLANWhen I was contacted recently by ex-Winnipegger Jonas Chernick,...