- The Jewish Post & News
"The Jewish Post & News" of
Winnipeg, Manitoba ,Canada , isWestern Canada 's only Jewish newspaper.The "Jewish Post" was the West's first "Anglo-Jewish newspaper", so described because its language was English though its concerns were those of the
Jewish community.Founded in 1925, it fought a heated battle with the Winnipeg-based "Western Jewish News", another English-language weekly begun a few weeks after "The Post" in 1925, and "Der Yiddishe Vorte (The Israelite Press)", a Yiddish-language weekly started in 1911 that for many years was published as a daily. All three served Jewish communities from Northern Ontario to the
Rocky Mountains with both news and advertising."The Israelite Press" reverted to a weekly half-English, half-
Yiddish weekly in the early post-Second World War years, finally ceasing publication in 1976."The Western Jewish News" was founded in 1926 by Sam Berg and enganged in a fierce fight for advertising with the Post for the next six decades until it was purchased by "The Jewish Post" in 1986, resulting in the paper's current name of "The Jewish Post & News."
As of 2007, "The Jewish Post & News" is owned by its editor, Matt Bellan, and his brother, Bernie Bellan (also known as the person who discovered the
Crocus Investment Fund scandal).In August 2007, the newspaper changed its publication schedule from weekly to bi-weekly.
External links
* [http://www.jewishpostandnews.com/mainpage.html Jewish Post & News website]
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