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Jewish synagogues react to rapid spread of Omicron variant – most put temporary end to in-person services

Synagogue logos montageBy BERNIE BELLAN With the rapid spread of the Omicron variant it comes as no surprise that many local synagogues have taken a proactive approach to dealing with the pandemic. For the time being, however, the Rady JCC is maintaining its existing schedule, although that may change quickly depending on possible new restrictions that may be issued by the provincial government.

Read more: Jewish synagogues react to rapid spread of Omicron variant – most put temporary end to in-person...

Harvey Secter, Robert Silver appointed to Order of Canada

Harvey Secter/Robert Silver

Two well-known members of Winnipeg’s Jewish community were among 135 Canadians to be appointed to the Order of Canada last week.

Read more: Harvey Secter, Robert Silver appointed to Order of Canada

Pembina Valley golf tournament raises money for bomb shelter in Israel

Taylor Polstra, organizer of the Covenant
Cup golf tournament, held this past
August; right, at the entrance to the tournament

By BERNIE BELLAN Taylor Polstra is a young woman now living in southern Manitoba who originally comes from the southern US.
In 2010 Taylor was working for an organization known as the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

Read more: Pembina Valley golf tournament raises money for bomb shelter in Israel

“Operation Lifeshield” (known as “Project Life Initiatives” in Canada) builds bomb shelters in Israel in areas not within seven kilometres of either the Gaza or Lebanon borders

Rabbi Shmuel Bowman (right), director of
"Operation Lifeshield", with the head of security
for Maalot-Tarshiha, which is where a new
bomb shelter for nursery school children
was just opened this past week.

By BERNIE BELLAN As noted in our article about the Covenant Cup golf tournament elsewhere on this website, money raised by a group in southern Manitoba was used to build a bomb shelter in a community in Israel. The name of the community is Maalot-Tarshiha, situated in the northern Galil, only 15 kilometres from the Lebanese border.

Read more: “Operation Lifeshield” (known as “Project Life Initiatives” in Canada) builds bomb shelters in...

Progressive Movements, Israel, and Anti-Semitism

Dr. Philip Berger

By Dr. PHILIP BERGER Special to The Jewish Post & News Some organizations and persons holding themselves out to be progressive have grown increasingly hostile to Zionism and to Israel ever since the 1967 Arab Israeli war. Their claims that Israel is a colonialist and racist state sometimes equate with the denial of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. They have thrown virtually every imaginable slander at Israel, with the intent of delegitimizing and eliminating the only Jewish state.

Read more: Progressive Movements, Israel, and Anti-Semitism

How Harvey Cogan became acquainted with members of his old family... and relatives he had never met - at the same time

Harvey Cogan's boba, her nieces &
her daughter - pre WWII
l-r: Rachel, D'vorah, Raizel & Sheva Cogan

By GERRY POSNER Picture this. It is 1950 and you are about to have your Bar Mitzvah at the shul in Fort William, Ontario ( as it was then known. With the twin city then, Port Arthur, it is now known as Thunder Bay).

Read more: How Harvey Cogan became acquainted with members of his old family... and relatives he had never...

15-year-old Mitchell Brown’s Holocaust poem

15-year-old Mitchell Brown

Introduction: We received a call from subscriber Joe Brown in Toronto, who was very proud of his 15-year-old grandson Mitchell, for having composed a Holocaust-themed poem. Joe sent us the poem and, although I said to him that I wasn’t sure we had enough space to print it in its entirety in the newspaper, I assured Joe we would post it to our website.
But, I told Joe I wanted to know more about Mitchell, so he contacted Mitchell and asked him to get in touch with me.

Read more: 15-year-old Mitchell Brown’s Holocaust poem

For Adam Rubin, success was secondary to maintaining roots in Canada - and reconnecting with old friends during Covid

Adam Rubin

By GERRY POSNER Could you predict an Adam Rubin? Not likely. If you asked him, he would have said not at all. But Adam, the youngest child of Chuck and Naida Rubin (neither of whom is exactly unknown to many readers of the JP&N) has carved out a path which is truly remarkable in many ways.

Read more: For Adam Rubin, success was secondary to maintaining roots in Canada - and reconnecting with old...

Harriet Zaidman’s latest book focuses on a bygone era that also incorporates some well-known Winnipeggers in the story

Harriet Zaidman/book cover

By MARTIN ZEILIG In her latest novel for young adults, Winnipeg author Harriet Zaidman reinforces the role of ice hockey as being, in her words, “synonymous with Canada.”
No doubt about it: Hockey is, indeed, a defining cultural entity within our country.

Read more: Harriet Zaidman’s latest book focuses on a bygone era that also incorporates some well-known...

Winnipeg Jewish hockey players of yesteryear

Max/Lou Labovitch

The following article is taken from the February 13, 1986 issue of The Jewish Post and was written by the late Leible Hershfield, the Jewish Athlete of the Half Century. In our Dec. 22 issue we ran two memoriams for Labovitch brothers, Irvin and Max. The Labovitch brothers, of whom there were four, were all terrific athletes. Leible’s article mentions two of them: Max and Lou.

Read more: Winnipeg Jewish hockey players of yesteryear

Letters from readers responding to the list of Manitoba synagogues

The Hebrew Friends Temple,
still standing at 229 Pritchard Ave.
(Read more about this building
following the letters we have
responding to our list of synagogues)

By BERNIE BELLAN Elsewhere on this website (http://jewishpostandnews.ca/8-features/987-a-list-of-all-winnipeg-synagogues-that-ever-existed) you can see the list of synagogues that may have existed at one time or another in Manitoba. That article led to quite a few responses from readers, some of whom offered recollections of their own of synagogues from a bygone era. In addition, we were made aware of one synagogue, known as the "Pavlitcher" synagogue, located at the corner of Dufferin & Aikins, that was not included in the list of synagogues. Click on "Read more" to see the letters we received, also a story about a building that still stands on Pritchard, known as the Hebrew Friends Temple, about which we knew nothing.

Read more: Letters from readers responding to the list of Manitoba synagogues

JCFS works to meet the needs of Holocaust survivors

Adeena Lungen
Jewish Child & Family Service
Holocaust Support Services

By BERNIE BELLAN In 1933 the Jewish population of Europe was 9.5 million. Following the war it was 3.5 million. Two thirds of European Jewry perished in the Holocaust. Prior to the war Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe: over 3 million. Following the war, it was reduced to about 45,000.

Read more: JCFS works to meet the needs of Holocaust survivors

Community leader Heather Leonoff receives prestigious Law Society award

Richard Scott
and Heather Leonoff

By MYRON LOVE Heather Leonoff is this year’s recipient of the Law Society of Manitoba’s Richard J. Scott award.
“I am honoured,” says the Director of the Manitoba Department of Justice’s Constitutional Law Branch of the award that was presented to her on November 26. “I am very pleased to be recognized by my peers.”

 

Read more: Community leader Heather Leonoff receives prestigious Law Society award

Jewish Federation AGM: Record year both for revenues and expenditures - fuelled by one-time contributions in aid of Covid relief

Jewish Fed logoBy BERNIE BELLAN For the second year in a row the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg held its Annual General Meeting online. This year’s meeting, which took place Wednesday evening, December 8, was relatively brief, lasting only 45 minutes, but while the meeting may have been relatively short in length, it certainly delivered some uplifting news.

Read more: Jewish Federation AGM: Record year both for revenues and expenditures - fuelled by one-time...

A chat with the son who wrote the viral obituary for his ‘plus-sized Jewish lady redneck’ mother

The late Renay Mandel Corren
with her son, Andy
Andy's obituary for his mother
went viral following
its publication on Dec. 15.

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) —  When Andy Corren’s mother, Renay Mandel Corren, died on Saturday in El Paso, Texas, at age 84, he did what many bereaved children with a creative bent would do: He wrote an obituary. 
“A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX was not to be found,” Corren wrote in the obituary that was published Wednesday in the Fayetteville Observer, the newspaper of the North Carolina city where Mandel Corren lived for many years.

Read more: A chat with the son who wrote the viral obituary for his ‘plus-sized Jewish lady redneck’ mother

Barb Winestock’s cheerfully irreverent attitude toward her fight with cancer

left: Barb's radiation mask
right: Barb with table she
built while teaching at Gray Academy

By BERNIE BELLAN In July 2019 Barb Winestock was diagnosed with a form of cancer known as Glioblastoma.
Here is a description of Glioblastoma: “Glioblastoma is an aggressive type of cancer that can occur in the brain or spinal cord. Glioblastoma forms from cells called astrocytes that support nerve cells.

Read more: Barb Winestock’s cheerfully irreverent attitude toward her fight with cancer

New JCFS office manager Mara Pellettieri has strong ties to our Jewish community

Mara Pellettieri

By MYRON LOVE For Mara Pellettieri, the Jewish Child and Family Service’s new office manager, community has always been of prime importance. One of eight children of Leslie and the late Les Nepon, she has truly been immersed in our Jewish community from birth.

Read more: New JCFS office manager Mara Pellettieri has strong ties to our Jewish community

Heather Perlov of “Heather’s Pretty Parties” one of 14 finalists for Manitoba Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Heather Perlov

By BERNIE BELLAN Ten years ago Heather Perlov (who was Heather Oliphant at the time) was asked by a friend who knew how much Heather loved to wear costumes whether she could come to a children’s party dressed as a princess and entertain the children there.

Read more: Heather Perlov of “Heather’s Pretty Parties” one of 14 finalists for Manitoba Woman Entrepreneur...

Pogroms in Poland and Ukraine in 1920-21 presaged what was to follow 20 years later

author Jeffrey Veidlinger/
book cover

Review by MARTIN ZEILIG Pogrom is a Russian word meaning ‘‘to wreak havoc, to demolish violently,” says the online Holocaust Encyclopedia on the United States Holocaust Museum website.
“Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries. The first such incident to be labeled a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in Odessa in 1821.

Read more: Pogroms in Poland and Ukraine in 1920-21 presaged what was to follow 20 years later

Isaac Colish and the Jews of West Kildonan

Jacob Chochinov & milk wagon
(source: Manitoba Historical Society)
right: Isaac Colish
(source: Jewish Heritage Centre)

Introduction: Further to the list of Manitoba synagogues which you can find elsewhere on this website (http://jewishpostandnews.ca/8-features/987-a-list-of-all-winnipeg-synagogues-that-ever-existed), we were intrigued by a listing of a “Kildonan Talmud Torah”. There was no street given for the location of that particular Talmud Torah so, as we have done so many times in the past, we contacted Stan Carbone of the Jewish Heritage Centre to see whether he could provide some further information about the Kildonan Talmud Torah.

Read more: Isaac Colish and the Jews of West Kildonan

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