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By GERRY POSNER There are walks and then there are walks. The Toronto UJA Walk for Israel on May 25, 2025 was one of a kind,...
By BERNIE BELLAN (June 3, 2025) Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has recently written a column for Haaretz in which he says the accusation that Israel...
By BERNIE BELLAN (June 2, 2025) On Friday, May 30, we received an email from an individual that immediately aroused our curiosity – and which subsequently...
By HENRY SREBRNIK (May 30, 2025) At the end of May the Jewish community here on Prince Edward Island met informally with a member of the...
The world rushes to judgement By GREGORY MASON (May 28, 2025) Israel’s re-imposition of a blockade on food and other necessities of life flowing into Gaza...
By BERNIE BELLAN We are often asked by readers why we profile so many ex-Winnipeggers.“Aren’t there enough Winnipeggers with interesting stories to tell?” is what a...
By BERNIE BELLAN In March 2023 Moe Levy retired as executive director of the Asper Foundation, after 23 1/2 years in that position. To that point...
Presented by LIONEL STEIMAN at the Lanny Remis Speakers Forum, May 8, 2025. One of the questions I wanted to answer in my course on the...
La vie se rétracte ou se dilate à proportion de notre courage. Anaïs Nin (1903 – 1977) By Dr. DAVID HOULT Israel has come of age...
By BERNIE BELLAN Many readers are undoubtedly aware of the name “Yoram Hamizrachi,” a.k.a. Yoram East. Yoram was a big man and his somewhat menacing appearance...
By MYRON LOVE The most recent (107th annual) Winnipeg Music Festival – which takes place annually in March – produced another group of Jewish musical stars...
By MYRON LOVE This year’s community commemoration of Yom Hashoah began on Erev Yom Hashoah – April 23 – with with the Megillat Hashoah interfaith reading...
By MYRON LOVE The Butterfly Effect is roughly the idea that, metaphorically, great trees grow from small seeds or, to be more specific, the theory that...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted MAY 11) In December 2023 we reported on a new fund that was being established in the name of the late Vivian...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted May 11) I’ve been called a lot of names in my lifetime, but until today I had never seen myself referred to...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted May 3, updated May 8, updated May 11) There’s a particularly ugly side that often comes with being in the public eye...
By EMILY (surname withheld by request) We received the following article from a third-year Health Sciences student at Western University, who wrote that as “a Jewish...
By MYRON LOVE It is always uplifting to read (or, from my perspective, to write) about people who have been able to reinvent themselves – and...
The Black Sea StationLong ago, there were the klezmorim, itinerant musicians who roamed the back streets of Eastern Europe, playing at parties for meals and a...
By BERNIE BELLAN In November 2023 I published a story in The Jewish Post & News about the first-ever Friday afternoon “Erev Shabbat” service at the...