by Cindy Leszczynski | May 29, 2024 | Local
On Sunday May 19, 2024 at 9:30 p.m. in the evening Ron East led a group of some 30 people made up of pro-Israel members of the Jewish and non-Jewish community in an innovative initiative in front of the University of Winnipeg pro-Palestinian...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 29, 2024 | Local
This film is fascinating, tender, and moving. From the dream-like opening shot of an old-world Jew, walking a path through an overgrown graveyard, we are led into the experiences of Gimpel the Fool and of Howard Rypp, director, actor and creator of the film....
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 29, 2024 | Local
The Goldman Case Monday, June 10 | 7:00 p.m. | Centre Cultural Franco-Manitobain – 340 Provencher Blvd. In Person Only Winnipeg Jewish Film Festival 2024 Watching the absorbing courtroom docudrama The Goldman Case, I felt invited to assess the guilt...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 29, 2024 | Local
In Poland’s Jewish communities in the late 1800s, “everyone knew” that Argentina was a dangerous place, with organized crime dealing in “white slavery”, international sex trafficking. Yet Polish Jewish women continued to arrive in...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 14, 2024 | Local
On June 20 Moe Levy is being honoured by the Jewish National Fund at its Negev Dinner at the RBC Convention Centre with proceeds going toward the construction of the Ethiopian Women's Empowerment Centre in Beit Shemesh as well...
