Casinos have a rich and fascinating history that dates back centuries, evolving from humble beginnings to the modern, glamorous establishments we know today. In this exploration...
By MARTIN ZEILIGU.S. filmmaker Ben Goldhagen has made a moving and daring documentary about the horrific and destructive war that is currently taking place in Ukraine....
By GABRIEL EMMANUEL In 1964 the Beatles were banned from performing in Israel (to the Jewish state’s everlasting shame and embarrassment). Nearly 60 years later a...
By HENRY SREBRNIK We are now three months past the horrific Hamas attack on Israel, and things get worse, not better, as antisemitic activities have grown...
By GERRY POSNER The Guslits name in Winnipeg is widely known. Just scratch a little and you will strike a Guslits descendent. One such Gusilts is...
By IRENA KARSHENBAUM In early November, just prior to arriving in Canada from her home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Ladino singer and songwriter, Nani Vazana, evokes...
On Saturday, December 16, Pnina Simkin, the daughter of Sam and Rachel Simkin, and sister to Jonah and Vered Simkin, celebrated her bat mitzvah at IKAR...
Bill Maher cuts to the chase like no one else. Here’s a link to a segment from the most recent episode of “Real Time with Bill...
By HENRY SREBRNIK Two things are essential for an anti-democratic political movement to succeed: ideological justification by academics and intellectuals, and control of the streets by...
By BERNIE BELLAN On Sunday, November 19, the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, in cooperation with the Jewish Federation, Westwood Collegiate, and an organization called...
By GERRY POSNER If you want to talk about the North End of Winnipeg – and the many successful products of that area, none “shines” brighter than...
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Centuryby Matthias B. LehmannStanford University Press, 400 pp., $49Reviewed by IRENA KARSHENBAUM In reading Matthias B. Lehmann’s...