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By MYRON LOVE Dr. Lev Bubis, the Health Sciences Centre’s new hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgeon, says that he and his family –wife, Amy, and four-year-old daughter, Ada,...
By SHIRA NEWMAN – Festival Director I am thrilled to announce the inaugural year of ‘Put a Yid on It’ Festival of New Yiddish Culture, running...
By BERNIE BELLAN Living as Israelis are in a time of unprecedented tension and uncertainty, more than ever volunteers are needed to fill important roles in...
By BERNIE BELLAN Schmoozer’s restaurant at the Asper Campus is now under the management of the Shaarey Zedek catering department.Apparently, according to Curtis Martin, Executive Director...
By BERNIE BELLAN From time to time I lead a discussion group at the Simkin Centre with residents there. It was when I was doing that...
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 MYRON LOVE “Growing up [in River Heights], I was always a girlie girl,” recalls social influencer Shayna Wiwierski. “I loved dressing up and doing my...
By BERNIE BELLAN Are Canada’s hate speech laws at all effective in combating what has been an outpouring of anti-Semitism since the Hamas massacre of October...
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 BERNIE BELLAN As we near year’s end we are still living through what is arguably the most difficult period in Israel’s history since the War...
By VIRGINIA ALLEN (The Daily Signal) David Newman sent a text to a friend the morning of Saturday, Oct. 7. Something terrible had happened. Word quickly...
By MYRON LOVE I remember many years ago attending a presentation by Simon Wiesenthal, the world’s leading Nazi hunter, during which he made the point that...
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 Over 500 people had registered to attend the memorial for slain peace activist and former Winnipegger Vivian Silver on Thursday evening, December 14,...
By BERNIE BELLAN At its Annual General Meeting, held December 6, the Jewish Federation reported a surplus of $110,916 for the 2022-23 fiscal year (which ended...
By BERNIE BELLAN Winnipeg-born Brayden Bernstein – a graduate of both Gray Academy and the Asper School of Business, has just completed his latest project: a...
By MICHAEL POSNERCopyright @ great untold stories inc.Reprinted with permission Nov 27, 2023I’m not worried about Israel.Israel can — Israel will — look after itself. It...
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...