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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...
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...