The Jewish Post
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The Jewish Post of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, was Western Canada's first "Anglo-Jewish newspaper", so named 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 purchased by The Jewish Post during the 1980s, resulting in the paper's current name of The Jewish Post & News.
As of 2006, 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 Fund scandal).
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