Wendy Schneider, long-time editor of the Hamilton Jewish News, and Ben Shragge, contributor and one of the few Jewish young adults who has chosen to stay in Hamilton, recently sat down at the Mulberry Street coffee house on James Street North to discuss the changes affecting the city and…
By Julia Kollek, Special to the Hamilton Jewish News
Margaret and Arthur Weisz may have arrived in Hamilton with a toddler and a small suitcase, but they built a successful dynasty and created a remarkable legacy.
During the Second World War Margaret and her family were taken to a ghett…
In a career that spanned 35 years, Sam Brownstone's impact on a generation of Jewish Hamiltonians can scarcely be measured.
For Brownstone, Jewish communal work was nothing less than a calling, and 50 years down the road, those who were on the receiving end of his attention and devotion,…
On Thursday July 4, 2013 our father, Benjamin B. Shekter passed away one month short of his 98th birthday. It was the end of a generation of Shekters who were all born and raised in their beloved city of Hamilton.
Ben, a first generation Hamiltonian, the third child of James and Lilli…
Joseph Baronislaw Singer was born in Kracow, Poland on March 5, 1924. His relatively genteel family life was overturned in the fall of 1939 when Poland was invaded from the west by Nazi Germany and from the east by the Soviet Union. As an officer in the Polish army, Joseph's father, Caro…
