By BERNIE BELLANWith schools in Manitoba set to reopen on September 8, it goes without saying that there is an enormous amount of apprehension among both...
Blair Kaplan Venables We received this email from Blair Kaplan Venables, about whom we wrote in our June 26, 2019 issue when Blair was the guest...
By MYRON LOVE The 13th annual Cancercare Manitoba Foundation Challenge for Life 20KM walk (or 200-minute workout) has a new look this year – as a...
1 of the 44 images on display at The Forks By MYRON LOVEThe Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ current outdoor exhibit – “ARTiculate Our Rights” –...
Kroft family l-r: Steve, Nathan, Lisa & Alex By MYRON LOVESteven Kroft is an individual who believes in leading by example. Thus, the newly-anointed Chair of...
AVi Posen By BERNIE BELLANElsewhere on this website we have a story about an interesting new partner-school program developed by an organization called OpenDor Media. The...
U of M Yiddish instructor Itay Zutra We received a note from the University of Manitoba’s Judaic Studies coordinator, Haskel Greenfield, asking whether we would help...
Sharon Graham By MARTIN ZEILIGThe Winnipeg Jewish Orphanage housed children from 1917 until 1948, and for a long portion of its existence it was served by...
Kamala Harris & husband Doug Emhoff By BERNIE BELLAN The announcement that Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate immediately set off a...
Stand-up vegetable stand at Campus 2019 Last year, Yazidi newcomers to Manitoba operated a very successful pop-up vegetable stand outside the Asper Campus. Every Thursday, for...
Nora Kobrinsky: “Birth of Vexation” By SUSAN TURNERARTA coordinator, participant, designer ROUNDNESS, an ARTA project, is an on-line exhibition of work by 24 artists in response...
Philip Berger – whimsical… & serious By GERRY POSNERRecently the book “Healing Lives, a Century of Manitoba Jewish Physicians” was published and in it are the...
Avi Posen in Israel Gray Academy to participate, along with five other schools in CanadaBy BERNIE BELLAN Two weeks ago we received some interesting information from...
a plot before weeding and one after By BERNIE BELLANIn previous issues we reported on changes the Shaarey Zedek had made to the maintenance of its...
By BERNIE BELLANImagine my surprise when, despite being told that the Jewish Foundation would not disclose how much funding specific organizations have received from the Foundation...
Shalom Residences’ Micah Kraut & Rabbi Yitzchok Charytan Ed. note: As part of our continuing effort to report on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has...