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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Two scions of a prominent Winnipeg rabbinic family are now helming the city’s biggest shuls
Description: For more than half a century, the Rose family—headed by Rabbi Neal Rose and his wife, Carol—have been prominent leaders in Winnipeg’s Jewish community. He has taught Judaic studies at university, they’ve led religious services and offered family programming, and mental health counselling. The Roses’ famous alternative High Holiday services launched in the basement of the Etz Chayim synagogue attracted hundreds of congregants over the years.
But after their four sons grew up and became rabbis far away from Winnipeg—and their daughter, who is married to a rabbi, also left—eventually the elder Roses left Canada, t...