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...
(Posted April 27) In a span of a little more than two weeks, BB Camp has gone from parting ways with one of its co-executive directors,...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted April 25) The following is taken from Bnai Brith Camp’s website as the camp’s mission statement:“BB Camp’s mission is to provide a...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted April 23) I’ve been asked by quite a few people why I’ve stopped writing my “Short takes” column for the Jewish Post...
By MYRON LOVE Dr. Ilana Shapera is looking forward to once again treading the boards – this time with a role that she can really sink...
BB Camp parts ways with co-director, who had held a variety of positions at BB Camp for the past 15 years By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted April...
By BERNIE BELLAN It was in the late 1990s that a group of individuals gathered at the old YMHA on Hargrave to discuss the lack of...