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Merger brings together leading lawyers with storied volunteer careers in community service
By MYRON LOVE
The recent merger of Wilder, Wilder and Langtrey with Pullan Frohlinger Kammerloch brings together some of our Jewish community’s most high profile legal practitioners.
With almost 70 years of experience, Gordon Pullan, QC has been practicing law longer than anyone else in Manitoba. (Only the late Harry Walsh was in practice longer.) He was honored by the Law Society of Manitoba as a senior member of the Bar with more than 50 years of practice almost 19 years ago. At 94, he is still working full time.
Over the course of his career, he has contributed his time to virtually every Jewish community organization and many more in the community at large. He has served as president ofboth the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba and the Sharon Home. He has been associated with the Sharon Home/Simkin Centre for more than 50 years.
He has also acted as Western Regional Vice President of United Israel Appeal and is – or has been – on the boards of Greater Winnipeg Community Welfare Council/ Winnipeg Jewish Community Council, the Asper Jewish Community Campus Planning Committee, the Chesed Shel Emes, the Bnay Abraham Synagogue, Ramah Hebrew School, Mount Carmel Clinic and Anne Ross Health Resources Centre Inc. and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Pullan also has a lengthy record of raising funds for the Combined Jewish Appeal and many Israel-related institutions.
Sam Wilder, QC has served as president of the Jewish Child and Family Service, the YMHA and the Manitoba Bar Association. Older brother Joe Wilder, QC has held numerous leadership roles in the Jewish and general communities, both locally and nationally.
His resumé includes leadership roles with the Canada-Israel Committee, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Football Club and the Canadian Football League.
The merger, as of January 1, was six months in the making. “After almost 60 years in practice and more than 50 years in partnership with my brother, Sam, we determined that we no longer wanted to be engaged in the management aspects of operating a law firm,” Joe Wilder notes. “We knew that Pullan Frohlinger Kammerloch has been expanding in recent years and felt that our two firms would be a good fit – a place where our clients would continue to feel comfortable.”
In a profile on Tom Frohlinger that this writer penned last year for this paper, the Pullan Frohliner Kammerloch managing partner noted that in recent years, the firm had been adding new offices both in Winnipeg and rural Manitoba – having acquired existing law practices in Selkirk, Carman, Morden and Winkler.
“We had outgrown our office space at our building on Kennedy Street (just south of Graham),” notes Frohlinger (who is also the honorary Hungarian Consul for Manitoba). “If we were continue to grow, we needed to move into a larger office.”
Thus, last April, the firm took over a floor at 444 St. Mary Avenue (about a block away from the former office). “We wanted to stay in the same area,” he says. “We appreciate the amenities of the neighbourhood and we wanted to remain near the Provincial Law Courts Building.”
“Joe and Sam wanted to be able to focus more time on their clients and other personal activities,” Frohlinger says. “We had a number of meetings with them and really liked the synergy that our two firms could produce together. Both of our firms have a long history, equal prestige and strong market share.
”We reached an agreement last September.”
Coincidentally, he points out, Gordon Pullan was the lawyer for Sam and Joe’s father (jack).
Initially, the new law practice is operating under the Pullan Frohlinger Kammerloch name but will be eventually known in future as PFK LLD.
Frohlinger adds that still another well known legal mind will soon be joining the practice in the person of Israel Ludwig, who will be coming on board as of March 1.
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Talented Winnipeg composer Sara Kreindler teams up with her mother Reena Kreindler to create new satirical show to premiere here in May
By BERNIE BELLAN It’s been many years since I’ve heard from Sara Kreindler. Sara’s name first appeared in The Jewish Post & News in 2002 when a satirical musical titled “A Touch of Class” was reviewed by the late Arnold Ross. That particular production featured songs from popular Broadway shows that touched upon themes such as “greed, poverty, oppression, and social unrest.”
When she appeared in that show, Ross noted, Kreindler had just recently returned to Winnipeg from England, where she had obtained a doctorate in Social Psychology from Oxford University.
While at Oxford, Kreindler found time to compose a satirical musical titled “Charity,” which played to rave reviews there, and was performed five times.
Continuing in the theme of writing satirical musicals, Sara has now teamed up with her mother, Reena, to write a new musical titled “A Perfect Man,” which is set to run at the Gargoyle Theatre from May 6-17.
According to a press release we received, “A Perfect Man” is “a satirical musical, set on a fictional analogue of ‘The Bachelor’.
“The story follows an anthropologist who arrives to research TV’s hottest reality-dating show — only to discover she’s been made a contestant, and the bachelor is her high school crush. Past and present collide against an exuberant pastiche score that uses vintage musical styles to highlight modern absurdities.”
“Praised as ‘a musician [who] can make biofuels funny’ (CBC), Sara is known for whip-smart satire on a panoply of topics. Her digital musical, ‘Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System, created during her former life as an academic, has garnered over 84,000 YouTube views. Naturally, she had a field day with the subject of reality dating.
“The topic just begs for campy zaniness, which I think we all need in these times — but also for a more cerebral critique of what these shows say about the culture that spawned them,” says Kreindler. And thanks to the romance context, the satire is woven into a deeper, more personal story. “It’s satire with a heart.”
Here is some more information about Sara Kreindler, taken from a 2009 article I wrote about her:
“Born in Israel, Sara’s precocious talent was nurtured by her mother, Reena, whose own particular talent is literary, not musical. According to Reena, however, Sara was singing from the time she was a baby, and she began to study piano at the age of four.
“As a young girl, Sara began writing her own songs and poems, along with the “occasional musical”, notes Reena. Yet, Sara’s rare talent put her at odds with the typical interests of other children her own age, on top of which she attended a school to which she was exposed to a fair degree of antisemtism.
“As a result, Sara says, being bullied was a common aspect of her childhood. On one occasion, when she was nine, she notes, Sara fought back against one particular bully by reciting the following little ditty:
“I write so many epigrams to you that all the people laugh.
I’m tired of writing epigrams.
I want to write your epitaph!”
“Sara went on to compose a musical titled ‘Flutesong’ while she was a student at Vincent Massey Collegiate, she says. After doing her undergraduate work at the University of Manitoba, majoring in Psychology, Sara won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University.
“Sara eventually earned a doctorate in Social Psychology and returned to Winnipeg, where she began teaching at the University of Manitoba, but she said she didn’t enjoy the “mass production” style of teaching upwards of 300 students at a time, so she switched careers and began doing health research for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.”
All the while Sara has been continuing to compose and perform her own songs, often teaming up with her mother, as she has for “A Perfect Man.”
Showtimes and ticket information for The Perfect Man are available at:
http://www.thegargoyletheatre.com/upcoming-events/the-perfect-man
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Rabbi Kliel Rose to leave Congregation Etz Chayim for new post in Ottawa
The following email from Congregation Etz Chayim Executive Director Morissa Granove was sent to members of the congregation on Friday, April 10:
“Dear Members and Friends,
“As we know, Rabbi Kliel recently spent a weekend with Kehilllat Beth Israel where he has since been offered a position. After much thought and consideration, he has made the decision to sign a contract in Ottawa. He will continue to lead our congregation through Yom Kippur.
“This news marks a significant ending for our Etz Chayim community, and at the same time with change comes opportunity. Congregation Etz Chayim will soon embark on our own Rabbinical search with excitement as we look for our perfect candidates and explore the new possibilities that will help us to continue to shape a strong future for our synagogue and members.”
Kliel Rose took up the position of rabbi at Etz Chayim in August, 2018.
In an article announcing his appointment to the position in the June 6, 2018 issue of The Jewish Post & News, Myron Love wrote:
The congregation has been without a permanent rabbi since last summer when Rabbi Larry Lander chose to retire – after ten years here – and relocate to Toronto.
Kliel Rose is already a well-seasoned rabbi. He was ordained in 2004 by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
He previously served as spiritual leader at the West End Synagogue in Nashville and Temple Enamu-El in Miami Beach. His current posting is Beth Shalom Synagogue in Edmonton.
Following the example of his parents, Kliel Rose has been active in interfaith dialogue and human rights work for which he was honoured in 2014 with the Human Rights Hero Award by Truah: The Rabbibic Call for Human Rights.
He has also participated in the Kellogg Management Education for Jewish Leaders program at Northwestern University and was most recently chosen to be among 20 rabbis from different denominations chosen to train in the Clergy leadership Incubator – a two-year program, under the leadership of Ranni Sidney Schwarz, intended to educate younger rabbis in innovative thinking, change management and institutional transformation.
In Edmonton, Rose also served as Jewish chaplain at the University of Alberta and took the lead on a program called “Faith and Inclusion”, whose mandate was to support individuals with cognitive and physical learning challenges to feel more welcome within various faith communities.