Winnipeg writer Méira Cook’s ‘The Full Catastrophe’ is a novel about embracing who you are
Méira Cook’s most recent novel is a love story. But it’s not the kind you may think. The Full Catastrophe is the story of an aging Holocaust survivor, his optimistic grandson and learning to embrace who you are. The book, which Cook considers to be a crossover story for teenagers and adults, focuses on Charlie […]
Holocaust survivor and Canadian soldier Hans Wolpe is being remembered by Winnipeg’s Jewish community
Hans Wolpe’s life was the stuff of a Hollywood movie—German Jew in hiding during the Second World War, Holocaust survivor, soldier, new Canadian and university professor. His life and accomplishments will be recognized by the Winnipeg Jewish community this week during its annual Kristallnacht commemoration. Wolpe, who went into hiding when the Nazis invaded Belgium […]
Winnipeg congregation Etz Chayim, led by Rabbi Kliel Rose, is moving from the city’s north end to be closer to its members
After decades of discussion, Congregation Etz Chayim—the largest synagogue in Winnipeg’s north end—is finally moving. “Eighty percent of our members live in the south part of the city,” said Avrom Charach, president of Etz Chayim. “The number of members who live close to the synagogue is dropping every year.” The Conservative synagogue, which has about 375 member […]
Anita Neville: Manitoba’s next lieutenant-governor is also the first Jew to serve in the post
Anita Neville, a former Member of Parliament and a prominent member of the Winnipeg Jewish community has been named Manitoba’s next lieutenant-governor. Neville’s appointment was announced Aug. 15 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In announcing the appointment, Trudeau said Neville has long been a champion for the people of her community, province and country. “As […]
A journalist in Winnipeg investigates how that city’s rye bread became the best in North America
What makes the Manitoba formula so special?
Winnipeg police are investigating why 70 headstones were toppled in the Shaarey Zedek cemetery
Officials don’t think it was antisemitism specifically, but maintain it was a desecration of a holy site.
Four Winnipeg siblings who survived the Holocaust together in a slave labour camp in Siberia are recording their stories for the future
They may well be the oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings—and they live in Canada. The four Fink siblings—Sally Singer, 100, Anne Novak, 99, Sol Fink, 97 and Ruth Zimmer, 95—live in Winnipeg, where they are in the process of having their stories added to the Last Chance Testimony Collection, part of the University of Southern California […]
Snowstorms in Winnipeg—not to mention COVID everywhere else—threaten to disrupt Canadians’ seder plans for the third year in a row
Happy Pandemic Passover from The CJN!
How Winnipeg’s Jewish community welcomed this Ukrainian refugee after her escape from the Russian invasion
After surviving Russian bombs and a 1,000-kilometre journey to safety, a widowed Ukrainian refugee with ties to the Jewish community has arrived safely in Winnipeg. Valentyna Agapova reached Canada on March 8, where her worried family lives. They had been frantically begging her to leave Ukraine once the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24. “We […]
The effort to solve a century-old Winnipeg murder mystery is a personal one for American author Wayne Hoffman
It’s a mystery nearly 110 years in in the making: Who murdered Winnipegger Sarah Feinstein? Finding an answer to that question occupied over a decade of Wayne Hoffman’s life. Hoffman, the executive editor of Tablet and a resident of New York City, is the great-great-grandson of Feinstein, who was murdered in 1913. The killer was never found. […]
