Features
JFM Women’s Endowment Fund Honours Exceptional Leader of our Community Marjorie Blankstein
The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba [JFM] held a beautiful event honouring exceptional community leader Marjorie Blankstein, who is almost 96 years old, and a founder of the Women’s Endowment Fund...
One Month In, JCFS 50/50 Raffle Builds Momentum for Mental Wellness in Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB – July 2025 — One month into Jewish Child and Family Service (JCFS) Winnipeg’s Second Annual JCFS Summer Sweepstakes 50/50 Raffle for Mental Wellness, support...
Editorial: The Eight State Solution
The Wall Street Journal recently published what I consider to be a very significant piece about a letter signed by five influential Hebron sheikhs, led by Sheikh Wadee’...
Shaarey Zedek celebrates the opening of the Tova Vickar and Family Childcare Centre
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue celebrated the official ribbon cutting of the Tova Vickar and Family Childcare Centre on Monday June 23, 2025 at a breakfast gathering attended by close to 100 people....
Editor’s Report re: Looking Back at Iran’s Once Close Ties with Israel, When Moshe Dayan Visited the Shah of Iran
As Israel attempts to prevent Iran from going nuclear, it's hard to believe that at one time Israel and Iran had close relations before the revolution in Iran in 1979. I learned about this...
Winnipeg Family is related to Shawna Fuld, Israeli journalist who lost her home when it was hit by an Iranian ballistic missile-Niece of Rachel Gerstein writes to WJR
A Winnipeg family is related to an Israeli American journalist Shawna Fuld whose home in Tel Aviv was destroyed by an Iranian balistic missile. Fuld moved to Israel from New York in 2018 to...
Local
Sun in Your Eyes?
Our eyes are sensitive organs, and we have to treat them with caution and kindness. Each season brings about it’s own set of challenges for ocular health. During autumn, the sun is low on the...
Canada’s Federal Court Slams Palestinian “Pay for Slay” Program in Landmark Ruling
December 17, 2020 TORONTO – Canada’s Federal Court has issued a scathing indictment of a Palestinian scheme to incentivize terrorism in a recent...
JNF Negev Gala Online Honouring Ted Lyons is a Tremendous Success
The JNF Negev Gala, which was held on May 31 online, honouring community leader and radiologist with an international reputation, Ted Lyons O.C. was a resounding success. The program...
Israeli Arab, Historian and Legal Advisor Respond to Amnesty International’s Report that Israel is an Aparthied State at CIJA Webinar – Govt of Canada Rejects Apartheid Charge
scroll down to read the article The Centre for Jewish and Israel Affairs (CIJA), the advocacy agent of Jewish Federations across Canada, held a virtual panel discussion on Amnesty...
Greg Gutfeld is Mad at Me (About Ukraine & the Holocaust)
(This essay was originally published in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, jewishhournal.com and is being reprinted with the permission of the author. Dr. Medoff is founding director of The...
Famed Truman Biographer Got it All Wrong on Zionism
(This essay was originally published in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, jewishhournal.com and is being reprinted with the permission of the author.) (Dr. Medoff is the author of more...
Plan A – The Relatively Unknown Plot by a Small Group of Jews to Poison Germany’s Water Supply in Response to the Holocaust
I watched a movie called Plan A, that can be rented on ChaiFlicks Virtual Cinema for $6.99 U.S. , which dramatizes a little known terrible plot by a small group of very traumatized...
Former Winnipeger Ariel Karabelnicoff is the National Executive Director of Canadian Friends of Haifa University- an academic leader in National Security Studies, the Environment and the Sea, Education, Health and Welfare, Social Work and Nursing
Ariel Karabelnicoff, who was born and raised in Argentina, is no stranger to Winnipeg, having lived here for 17 years, after living in Israel for many years. Karabelnicoff, who is...
Israel
Israeli journalist Shawna Fuld, who is related to a Winnipeg family lost her home when it was struck by an Iranian Ballistic Missile-Nice of Rachel Gerstein writes to WJR
A Winnipeg family is related to an Israeli American journalist Shawna Fuld whose home in Tel Aviv was destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile. Fuld moved to Israel from New York in 2018 to found...
Students Sue Concordia and its President to Enforce Anti-Hate Rules
https://www.thesuburban.com/townnews/legislation/exclusive-students-sue-concordia-and-its-president-to-enforce-anti-hate-rules/article_b230e718-66cf-11ef-be79-4bcf24563fc6.html
Judaic Studies Courses at the University of Manitoba – Fall 2022 and Winter 2023
Judaic Studies Courses at the University of Manitoba – Fall 2022 and Winter 2023 The University of Manitoba Judaic Studies Program has announced the offerings for the upcoming school...
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg from new Jersey: On the Subject of Antisemitism and the PA
My parents survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. My life has been devoted to teaching such lethal consequences of anti-Semitism Now the time has come to consider the lethal...
U.N. Program Addresses Genocide: The Holocaust and Beyond
It was a concept coined by author Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, the first one to invent its modern name: Genocide...
Inside the U.N. Security Council Resolution, Calling for Israeli Withdrawal
An Arab-sponsored resolution, imposing a compulsory timetable for total Israeli withdrawal from both the West Bank and Gaza, has been vetoed by the United States in the United Nations...
General manager of Al-Arabiya television Ends up Cheering For Israel
Editor recommends that readers check out this article by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed general manager of Al-Arabiya television and former editor-in-chief...
Israel, China and the US: Save the last dance for me
Israel's increasing defense cooperation with China has caused concern in the United States, which is the largest foreign supplier of military equipment to Israel. The United States has...
Editorial/Letters
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B'nai Israel - Southbury
Article re: Jamiaca from 2018
Good morning, I was doing a little research on my family tree and came across this article from 2018 on the Jewish cemetery in Jamaica. ...
Israel Central Elections Commission Denies Request to Disqualify Kahanist Candidates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Israel Central Elections Commission Denies Request to Disqualify Kahanist Candidates March 6, 2019 This evening, the Israel Central Elections Commission denied the...
Re: Could Israel Lose the Dead Sea Scrolls
I am a German journalist based in Israel, currently writing for the "Jüdische Allgemein" an analysis on whether with the latest UN decision, Israel might loose its right to the...
Moving embassy to Jerusalem
There is no reason for Israel to agree to cede that area, which includes the holy sites, and which would facilitate terrorism against Jewish Jerusalem residents. I wish the U.S. would...
Correction
Hi Rhonda ... Thanks, as usual, for your latest edition. Just one correction: You refer to last month's gathering in front of the Rady Jewish Community Center as an "anti-Israel...
A great column on Sayad Kashua
July 1, 2016 A great column on Kashua, one of the best I have read on the Israeli/Palestinian situation. Kashua supposedly is a moderate Palestinian, Israeli or otherwise. Imagine what the...
Jewish Community Alert: York University Faculty Association Executive Endorses Divestment
Toronto - 2.17.16: Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) is issuing a Jewish Community Alert cautioning Jewish students from choosing to attend York University,...
Obituary/In Memoriam
Listing of Funerals
Ori Wieselman, funeral July 13, graveside, Rosh Pina Memorial Park, 11 a.m. Edith Landy, Chesed Shel Emes, Shaarey Zedek Cemetery, July 4, 11: a.m. Alan Rappaport, graveside, Rosh Pina...
Aviva Cohen: A Tribute to my Father Sid Bursten z’l
I’ve never written a eulogy before, so remembering my father with a few stories that captured my impressions of him as a daughter was a new and daunting experience. I hope it painted a...
In Memoriam – Ruth (Babs) Asper
Fourteenth Yahrtzeit In loving memory...
Obituary: Dr. Morris Broder
Dr. Morris Broder, aka,“ The Great One “ passed away on October 12, 2014 surrounded by his family. He is predeceased by brother Ernie Broder, sister Blanche Young, and...
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: IN MEMORIAM:BOB KOPSTEIN Z’L
[Editor's Note: I want to take a moment to remember Robert Kopstein who contributed several articles to the Winnipeg Jewish Review, and had intended on contributing many more had...
Elliot Leven: Leona Billinkoff Remembered-The Eemah of Camp Massad
She was an original. No one who ever met Leona Billinkoff could deny that. Born Leona Wagner in 1920, she passed away on January 30, 2014. Leona was best known as “Gveret B”...
OBITUARY: Marshall Shapiro
Obituary for Marshall Frederick Shapiro -Journalist ( Marshall Shapiro ,// ) Marshall passed away peacefully on Tuesday June 25th at the Welland Hospital after a brief illness. Funeral...
GUTHRIE THEATER TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF ARTIST, EDUCATOR STEPHEN KANEE
Memorial service to be held Sunday, April 14 at 11 a.m. on the Wurtele Thrust Stage (Minneapolis/St.Paul) The Guthrie Theater today announced that a public celebration of the life and...
