Category: Features

Jewish nonprofits are struggling. How should donors try to rescue them?

By BEN SALES NEW YORK (JTA) — In the weeks after it became clear that the coronavirus pandemic would spark a lasting...

Life-cycle events for a rabbi during COVID-19

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: He serves the stars

By GERRY POSNER Winnipeg has turned out men and women who have achieved fame in all sort of areas, especially the world of...

Looking back at the life of the late Rabbi Peretz Weitzman

This story originally appeared in our paper in 2010:  Lodz-born rabbi celebrating 90th birthdayBy PAUL LUNGEN  TORONTO – When Rabbi Peretz Weizman used...

Yiddish column

The Dybbuk is one of the most famous Yiddish plays and films. Written by S. Anski before World War One, the Dybbuk is a...

Daniel Raiskin, music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, discusses his life – from his boyhood in Soviet Russia to his coming to Winnipeg...

By BERNIE BELLAN Daniel Raiskin has been the music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra since 2018. This paper has been remiss not...
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