BY REBECA KUROPATWA A unique class on Jewish Mindfulness, which just started this week at the Rady JCC, offers everything from self-care on a physical and emotional level, skills to choose to respond wisely (as opposed to reacting), and inspiring wisdom from Jewish sources.
By RHONDA PREPES Carli Rothman will present “Dirty Little Secret: Addiction in the Jewish Community” on Sunday March 5th at 4:00 p.m. at this year’s Limmud Winnipeg at the Asper Jewish Community Campus.
By MYRON LOVE Winnipeg has been experiencing a renaissance in recent years, as exemplified by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and many major projects underway downtown, Harvey Secter notes.
By BERNIE BELLAN Becky Chisick has been in her job as the new executive director of Gwen Secter Centre at Syd Glow Place for a little over a month.
The following story is being updated on a regular basis as new information comes to light about what led to the Chief Medical Officer of St. Boniface Hospital being fired on January 20.
By MYRON LOVE Kayla Gordon is best known in our community for her lifelong work in theatre.
By BERNIE BELLAN
An incident happened in a Winnipeg neighbourhood on New Year’s Eve. A rock with anti-Semitic writing was left inside a gift bag and left on a homeowner’s step.
Ed. note: We had posted a story about an event organized by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada back in December about the period in the life of the late Rabbi Zalman Schachter when he lived in Winnipeg. That story can be read elsewhere on this website at http://jewishpostandnews.ca/local/2224-the-late-rabbi-zalman-schachter-s-time-in-winnipeg-recalled-at-lively-evening-hosted-by-jewish-heritage-centre. That particular story elicited a response from the family of the late Rabbi Schachter:
By BERNIE BELLAN
(Originally posted Jan. 5; updated Jan. 29) It started with three former schoolmates who attended Talmud Torah (Winnipeg Hebrew School) and Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate deciding to form a Facebook group back in July of this year known as “1950s Winnipeg Talmud Torah and Peretz School students (and others)”.
By BERNIE BELLAN We’ve been reporting on the slide in enrolment at the Gray Academy over the past four years: from 625 in 2012 to 486 this past September (a 22% drop).
On Thursday, November 24 in the Berney Theatre, the Jewish Heritage Centre, Parks Canada and the Manitoba Historical Society unveiled a plaque designating Abraham Albert Heaps as a person of national historic significance. Heaps, a labour activist and politician at the local and national level played a prominent role in lobbying for major public programs such as the old age pension and unemployment insurance.
