Clockwise from top left: Gregory Hyman, Hannah Schaeffer, Juliet Eskin, Noah Kravetsky, Alexandra Schaeffer, Yale Rayburn-Vander Hout By MYRON LOVE It was an exceptionally good Winnipeg...
Michael Eskin/Ava Kobrinsky By MYRON LOVE Somewhere in the back of my mind, I dimly recall the maxim that it is preferable to be one who...
pro-Israel rally organizer Ron East(in shorts) being accosted by pro-Palestinian at a pro- Palestinian rally held May 15in front of Manitoba Legislature By BERNIE BELLANNow that...
“The Better Brain”co-author Bonnie Kaplan By IRENA KARSHENBAUM What people have known for centuries – that good nutrition is positively correlated to good mental health has,...
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Tania Dolovich (née Fridell) four months shy of her 90th birthday. She is survived by...
The Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israel Film Archive recently launched an innovative website featuring Israeli cinema through its generations. The new website provides a unique opportunity to...
Phil Spevack By PHIL SPEVACK Back GroundIn 1948, one day after Britain gave up its mandate for Palestine and allowed the UN partition the Jewish State...
1984 Provincial A Champions(photo from a 1984 Jewish Post) We received the following release from The Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame: The Manitoba Basketball Hall of...
Norman Stein in a 1965 yearbook photo/recent photo of Norman By BERNIE BELLAN For hundreds of Winnipeg Jews – both current and former, the name Norman...
Eira Shochet By REBECA KUROPATWA Ukraine-born, Israeli-raised Eira Shoichet is working to shed light on body care products, and help explain that mainstream body care products...
The Little Synagogue on the Prairie trekking down an Alberta highway to Calgary, November 2008. Photo credit: Shel Bercovich By IRENA KARSHENBAUM Looking back, I can’t...
Itamar Ben Gvir/Tehila Friedman By JAMIE MICHAELS Ed. note: This article was sent to us before the latest round of coalition-forming attempts. In the pulsating balagan...
Morgan (Micay) & Levi VanDam We received the following email from Morgan VanDam: My name is Morgan Van Dam (formerly Micay), I’m living in Calgary, AB...
The following is taken from B’nai Brith Canada’s most recent audit of antisemitic incidents in Canada, which was released April 26:On average, more than seven antisemitic...
Melanie Martin By MYRON LOVE In 1993, then University of Manitoba physics student Melanie Schachter had the honour of being one of just two Canadian students...
By BERNIE BELLAN In what must have come as a shock, not only for members of Shaarey Zedek Congregation, but for most of Winnipeg’s Jewish community...