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This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to a Hungarian writer whose work offers bleak visions of existence, and whose father hid his Jewish ancestry...
By HENRY SREBRNIK (Oct. 23, 2025) The idea that Hamas will voluntarily disarm, that international forces will deploy in the Gaza Strip, and that the process...
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN I have to admit that, as much as I consider myself reasonably informed about the history of the Holocaust, I had never...
By Mira Fox September 27, 2025 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your...
“They can starve us, beat us, cage us – but they could never kill our spirit.“ – Joseph BauA gripping new movie, titled Bau, Artist at...
By BERNIE BELLAN It was billed as “Java with Jeff” – a chance for anyone to talk to Jewish Federation CEO Jeff Lieberman in an open...
By MYRON LOVE Many readers will no doubt remember the uproar caused 15 months ago (on May 16, 2024) when the valedictorian for the University of...
By HENRY SREBRNIK I’m not being faux humble when I say I consider Niall Ferguson more erudite and better read than I am. He has taught...
By GREGORY MASON If we define Hamas as a cancer, can we devise a strategy to, if not defeat Hamas, at least manage it? Is Hamas...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Sept. 11, 2025) There was a mood of heightened expectancy the afternoon of Wednesday, September 10, at the Gwen Secter Centre. The premier...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Sept. 11, 2025) It’s a complicated – and very confusing story – and it goes back to an earth-shaking decision issued by the...
“Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone” -from Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970) By BERNIE BELLAN...
By MYRON LOVE Over the past 35 years Gail Asper has risen to the top ranks among Canadian philanthropists and as the go-to leader for high-profile fundraising...
Ed. note: Elsewhere on this website we have a story about Rabbi Carnie Rose having recently become the senior rabbi for Shaarey Zedek Congregation. At the...
Introduction: Readers of this website may have read stories some months back about the huge controversy in which BB Camp on Town Island in Lake of...
By HENRY SREBRNIK Australia and Canada share many similarities, and so do their Jewish communities. Most Jews live in two large cities, in Australia’s case, Melbourne...
Winnipeg Friends of Israel are thrilled to welcome Dr. Ted Rosenberg on Sunday, September 14 at 7:00 PM for a presentation that promises to be powerful, timely, and...
By DAVID R. TOPPER As I recall, in the TV series, Genius – which began with a series on Albert Einstein, this one by Ron Howard...
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN Carole King (born Carol Klein in 1941) is arguably the most successful female singer-songwriter of all time. With over 75 million record...
By MYRON LOVE Seven years ago, Dr. Gerald Minuk, Canada’s first hepatologist (liver specialist), partnered with Israeli computer science student Daniel Iluz-Freundlich in founding Refuah Solutions...