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Virtual Kanee lecture: Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy urges Israeli policy makers to “think outside the box”

former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy
June 6 screenshot

By BERNIE BELLAN (Note: This article was written prior to the change of government in Israel. As usual, with the swift flow of events there, much of what is presented here is already outmoded.) This year the Jewish Heritage Centre has been presenting a series of three Kanee lectures online, rather than the traditional annual in-person Kanee lecture. The most recent of these online lectures was delivered by Efraim Halevy on June 6.

Read more: Virtual Kanee lecture: Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy urges Israeli policy makers to “think...

Jewish Federation to increase allocations to beneficiary agencies by considerable amount

Jewish Federation logoBy BERNIE BELLAN The Allocations Committee of the Jewish Federation has submitted its report to the Federation. The committee is recommending a total of $3,523,098 in allocations to the 12 beneficiary agencies of the Federation for the 2021/22 fiscal year, which begins Sept. 1, 2021.

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Jewish Foundation distributed over $5,000,000 in 2020

Left: outgoing JFM Chair Richard Yaffe
Right: Incoming JFM Chair Bonnie Cham

JFM AGM screenshots

 

By BERNIE BELLAN The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba held its Annual General Meeting online on Wednesday, June 16. This marks the second year now that the Foundation AGM has been held online – and the second year that outgoing Foundation Chair Richard Yaffe has presided over the meeting online.

Read more: Jewish Foundation distributed over $5,000,000 in 2020

Zev Faintuch: Winnipeg’s only certified global intelligence analyst

Zev Faintuch

By MYRON LOVE Like many people, Zev Faintuch has hit a Covid detour in his career path. The native Winnipegger and former Israel Defense Forces soldier returned home in 2019 after a year-long internship in Washington D.C. with an international security firm called Global Guardian.

Read more: Zev Faintuch: Winnipeg’s only certified global intelligence analyst

Interview with Daniel Levin - author of international best seller “Proof of Life”, the sensational true story of the hunt for a young man gone missing in Syria in 2012

Daniel Levin - his recently
released best selling book

By BERNIE BELLAN A couple of months back I had the opportunity to read and review an advance copy of a terrific new book titled “Proof of Life”, by Daniel Levin.
In it Levin tells the true story of a task he was given to try and find out what happened to a young man who disappeared in Syria during the early stages of what turned out to be a protracted struggle between the regime of Bashar Assad and the many different groups that emerged determined to fight him.

Read more: Interview with Daniel Levin - author of international best seller “Proof of Life”, the sensational...

Changing the rhetoric: What Canada can learn from Jewish-Arab co-education

Jamie Michaels

By JAMIE MICHAELS The current discourse on Israel-Palestine is killing our ability to think. The pattern is a depressingly familiar one. Tensions escalate. Hamas rockets rain down on Israel and Israeli airstrikes pummel Gaza. While civilians on both sides race for cover, pundits and commentators race for Twitter.

 

Read more: Changing the rhetoric: What Canada can learn from Jewish-Arab co-education

After long hiatus, Melton program is back in Winnipeg

Patti Cohen: taught a recent
Melton Program class
1st class offered in 10 years

By MYRON LOVE After an absence of more than ten years, the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning is once more being offered in Winnipeg under the auspices of Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

Read more: After long hiatus, Melton program is back in Winnipeg

New book tells riveting tale of World War II experience for Jewish family living in British Mandate Palestine – but oh my gosh, I’ve never read more mistakes in a book

author Isaac Kal/
book cover

“The Long Way Home from Crete”
By Isaac Kal
Self-published, 2021
Available on Amazon
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN

I don’t think I’ve ever had quite the experience reading a book that I had reading one that was recently sent to me by the author of “The Long Way Home from Crete”.

Read more: New book tells riveting tale of World War II experience for Jewish family living in British...

New group established ‘in the spirit’ of Canadian Jewish Congress

CJCF edited 1By RON CSILAG May 27, 2021 (CJN) Remember the Canadian Jewish Congress? Enough of its former senior leaders do, and fondly- to the point that they have founded a new organization “in the spirit” of CJC.

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Jewish National Fund holds successful online Negev Gala

Negev Gala honouree Ted Lyons
with Harriet Lyons

By BERNIE BELLAN
It was more than two years in the making, but after the most prolonged break in the history of Negev Galas (and Dinners – which preceded the more recent Negev Galas), the Jewish National Fund was finally able to pull off what turned out to be a very successful event on Monday, May 31, albeit one that was held online.

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Former Winnipegger Dr. Meir Kryger takes an impressive turn to fiction with “The Man Who Couldn’t Stay Awake”

Meir Kryger edited 1
Dr. Meir Kryger
"The Man Who Couldn't Stay Awake"

By BERNIE BELLAN In the mid-1980s a young Dr. Meir Kryger was beginning to establish his reputation as one of the pre-eminent experts in the area of sleep disorders. Having moved to Winnipeg to take up a position at St. Boniface Hospital (where he was to establish Canada’s first sleep lab devoted entirely to researching sleep disorders and was the first doctor to describe a case of sleep apnea in Canada) Kryger also somehow found the time to begin working on a novel – which, for various reasons, he just couldn’t complete.

Read more: Former Winnipegger Dr. Meir Kryger takes an impressive turn to fiction with “The Man Who Couldn’t...

Doctors Manitoba recognizes humanitarian pediatrician

Dr. Murray Kesselman

By MYRON LOVE Dr. Murray Kesselman pronounces himself “honoured” to have been recognized by Doctors Manitoba (formerly known as the Manitoba Medical Association) as this year’s recipient of the organization’s Distinguished Service Award.

Read more: Doctors Manitoba recognizes humanitarian pediatrician

Why Benjamin Netanyahu treated the Jewish media with contempt

NetanyahuBy GARY ROSENBLATT June 11, 2021 (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Whether this week marks the last of Benjamin Netanyahu’s record-setting tenure as prime minister or is just a prelude to another never-count-him-out comeback, it seems a fitting moment to try to understand why he has consistently treated diaspora Jewish media with disdain.

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What coalition building in Israel is accidentally teaching us

An uneasy alliance l-r: Yair Lapid,
Naftali Bennett, Mansour Abbas

By JAMIE MICHAELS The signatures are on paper. The ink is drying. The reign of King Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minster, may be at an end. The only guarantee in Israeli politics is that there are no guarantees—der mentsh trakht un Got lakht.

Read more: What coalition building in Israel is accidentally teaching us

Former Winnipegger Rabbi Shawn Zell writes new siddur for house of mourning

Rabbi shawn Zell

By MYRON LOVE Rabbi Shawn Zell has penned a new siddur which, he hopes, will make for easier reading as well as refreshing the ritual with some inspirational readings which he has composed for those in mourning.

Read more: Former Winnipegger Rabbi Shawn Zell writes new siddur for house of mourning

Dr. Keith Meloff: a remarkable medical career

Dr. Keith Meloff

By GERRY POSNER I’ve been writing a lot about Jewish psychiatrists of late (you can call me out for that), but the Jews of Winnipeg have also been a force in Neurology. It is just that not many people know it. One such luminary is Winnipeg born and bred neurologist, Dr. Keith Meloff, now of Toronto.

Read more: Dr. Keith Meloff: a remarkable medical career

Community leader Jordan Farber launches new venture in real estate consulting

Jordan Farber

By MYRON LOVE With over 20 years experience working in real estate, Jordan Farber has gained a wealth of experience in all aspects of real estate development - expertise that he is now in a position to share widely.

Read more: Community leader Jordan Farber launches new venture in real estate consulting

The lynching of Saeed Mousa: Radical listening and the battle for the soul of Israel

Jamie Michaels/Saeed Moussa

By JAMIE MICHAELS (Ed. note: Jamie’s submission arrived one day before the  ceasefire between Gaza and Israel took effect.)

I begin by expressing my deep sorrow for the Jews and Arabs who have been killed in the last few weeks of escalating violence.

Read more: The lynching of Saeed Mousa: Radical listening and the battle for the soul of Israel

Gaza war not only led to confrontations here between pro and anti Israel factions - it led to rift within Winnipeg Jewish community

pro-Israel rally organizer Ron East
(in shorts) being accosted by
pro-Palestinian at a pro-
Palestinian rally held May 15
in front of Manitoba Legislature

By BERNIE BELLAN
Now that a ceasefire has been put into effect between Israel and Hamas, we can take stock of the tumultuous 11 days that began with rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel beginning on Monday, May 10, until a ceasefire was declared May 21.
The repercussions of the often hateful divisions that came to the surface between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups around the world will undoubtedly be felt for a very long time. In Canada rallies of pro-Palestinian groups were often met with counter rallies by pro-Israel groups.

Read more: Gaza war not only led to confrontations here between pro and anti Israel factions - it led to...

Talented young singers, pianist, violinist among 2021 online Winnipeg Music Festival winners

Clockwise from top left: Gregory
Hyman, Hannah Schaeffer, Juliet Eskin,
Noah Kravetsky, Alexandra Schaeffer,
Yale Rayburn-Vander Hout

By MYRON LOVE It was an exceptionally good Winnipeg Music Festival this year for Winnipeg voice teacher Kelly Robinson (of the Jewish Robinsons). Not only did many of her students stand out – as usual - but also her 11-year-old daughter, Juliet Eskin, had a successful debut in her first appearance in the annual competition.

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