By BERNIE BELLAN Becky Chisick has been in her job as the new executive director of Gwen Secter Centre at Syd Glow Place for a little over a month.
The following story is being updated on a regular basis as new information comes to light about what led to the Chief Medical Officer of St. Boniface Hospital being fired on January 20.
By MYRON LOVE Kayla Gordon is best known in our community for her lifelong work in theatre.
Ed. note: We had posted a story about an event organized by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada back in December about the period in the life of the late Rabbi Zalman Schachter when he lived in Winnipeg. That story can be read elsewhere on this website at http://jewishpostandnews.ca/local/2224-the-late-rabbi-zalman-schachter-s-time-in-winnipeg-recalled-at-lively-evening-hosted-by-jewish-heritage-centre. That particular story elicited a response from the family of the late Rabbi Schachter:
By BERNIE BELLAN We’ve been reporting on the slide in enrolment at the Gray Academy over the past four years: from 625 in 2012 to 486 this past September (a 22% drop).
By BERNIE BELLAN
An incident happened in a Winnipeg neighbourhood on New Year’s Eve. A rock with anti-Semitic writing was left inside a gift bag and left on a homeowner’s step.
By REBECA KUROPATWA The Zita and Mark Bernstein Family Foundation became the first in Winnipeg to donate a complete ambulance and scooter to Magen David Adom on Mark’s 90th birthday, December 1st.
By BERNIE BELLAN
(Originally posted Jan. 5; updated Jan. 29) It started with three former schoolmates who attended Talmud Torah (Winnipeg Hebrew School) and Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate deciding to form a Facebook group back in July of this year known as “1950s Winnipeg Talmud Torah and Peretz School students (and others)”.
After some fits and starts, the Gwen Secter Centre finally has a new executive director ready to take over from retiring executive director Marilyn Regiec.
On Thursday, November 24 in the Berney Theatre, the Jewish Heritage Centre, Parks Canada and the Manitoba Historical Society unveiled a plaque designating Abraham Albert Heaps as a person of national historic significance. Heaps, a labour activist and politician at the local and national level played a prominent role in lobbying for major public programs such as the old age pension and unemployment insurance.
By BERNIE BELLAN
It was billed as an evening that would be devoted to “Rabbi Zalman Schachter and the Winnipeg origins of the Jewish Renewal Movement”.
Like just about everything else associated with the late Rabbi Schachter (who died in 2014 at the age of 90), it was an evening not without controversy.
