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      janeenkinmusic.com     What if you could save the lives of fifty children? What if in saving them you put your own life at risk? What if you could save the life of one...

  A delighted audience responded with great happiness to Sid Robinovitch’s invigorating new Concerto for Percussion and Strings.  Soloist Victoria Sparks played marimba and...

Bad Jews Winnipeg Jewish Theatre May 6 – May 17, 2015 Reviewed by Jane Enkin janeenkinmusic.com “Bad Jews” offers laughs, entertaining and emotional performances, and some...

Jane Enkin: Songs Rabbi Karen Soria: Readings Dale Rogalsky: Piano   How do we memorialize a history for which the language of statistics and facts is inadequate – a history that is now...

  “Howard Kaplan is probably without peer in his grasp of the delicate and explosive relationship between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Bullets of Palestine is a terrorist thriller...

  On February 3, Jewish National Fund Manitoba/Saskatchewan hosted a presentation on Israeli cycling trails led by KKL-JNF Forest and Community Ranger Gidi Bashan.     The...

    Press releasse   Gabriola Island, BC – A small Canadian publisher has won literary recognition for a book that major publishing houses rejected. “I just thought that...

      [Editor's note: Since Iran becoming a nuclear state is  is assessed as Israel's biggest security challenge for 2015, I thought I would reprint this piece I wrote in...

          [Editor's note:The following is Jane Enkin's review of "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy" which was featured at this year's  Rady JCC...

The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith RMTC Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre December 2 – December 20, 2014 The Devil's Music is fine entertainment. The delight starts with...

                Winnipeg’s beloved “Grande Dame of Theatre”, Doreen Brownstone, returns to the stage in the dark comedy VIGIL at Prairie...

    New BA curriculum for students in 2014 This program is effective as of September 2014. It replaces the Thematic Major in Human Rights and Global Studies (HRGS). Students enrolled at...

  [Editor's note: Yemen Blues will be returning to Winnipeg for this year's Rady JCC Tarbut Festival on Sat Nov 22, 2014. Below is Jane Enkin's review of their show when they were...

    Paula Hurwitz, a lawyer born and raised in Winnipeg’s  Jewish community recently released her first novel Emiliano’s Discovery, a fictional story based on real...

Davy the Punk -- The very Jewish story of my father's life in the gambling business Written and performed by Bob Bossin July 16-27, 2014 at Prairie Theatre Exchange Bob Bossin was a young adult...

“There’s no better place to start a book tour, “ says ex-Winnipegger and author, Brenda Barrie, talking about her third novel, An Unorthodox Romance, which will be launched,...

Nazis in Palestine 1933-1948 recounts the demise of the Palästina-Deutsche   Heidemarie Wawrzyn Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948 Walter de Gruyter GmbH Berlin / Boston the Vidal Sassoon...

Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi   Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Mainstage to April 4, 2014   “What is my story? Hm? What is story of me, Mr. Kim? My whole life is this store....

At the opening of this entertaining and beautiful concert, Gayle Waxman, the Executive Director of the Rady JCC, thanked the staff of the JCC, the festival volunteers, and then the donors to the...

Accept Iran For What It Is RIGHT from the beginning, even before you open GOING TO TEHRAN you know where the authors are taking you. The subtitle tells it all:  Why the United States Must Come...

Editor's note: Below are a few poems written by Brenda Barrie at High Holy Days over the years, and published in the liturgies of various synagogues and in her book of poems *Full Speed. Full...

By complimentary pass only. No tickets for sale for the screening. Wednesday, August 14, 2013 @ 7 p.m. Empire Theatres Grant Park - 1120 Grant Ave. Winnipeg, MB The Attack, a D Films production,...

I LEFT MY HEART IN WINNIPEG AND ELSEWHERE TOO  Paintings and drawings by Winnipeg born artist Hilda Szternfeld Smith  Exhibition and Art Sale from August 2 to August 28, 2013  Artist...

  [Editor's note: I met Dror Eydar in Israel at the Shimon Peres Presidential Conference and thank him for giving the Wininpeg Jewish Review permission to reprint his work]   The...

The Los Angeles area theater world is finally about to witness the dream of husband and wife team, singer and actress Barbara  Matteson Cooper and three time Drama-Logue Award winning musical...

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The Hound of Ulster Having enjoyed the Struts and Frets Players’ performance of “Cupid and Psyche” at last year’s Fringe, I was very excited to get to see their take on Irish...

Reviews of Quilters, May and Alia do Pirates! (of Penzance) and O(h) Quilters is a beautiful production of a fascinating, lovely play. Shoestring Players is a community theatre group, with the...

The Fringe is off to a great start. In addition to ticketed shows, you can enjoy free entertainment, buskers, and an array of crafts, unusual clothing and snacks for sale. Here are reviews of the...

Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2013 July 17 -- 28, 2013 The Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2013 opens on July 17. There is lots to discover on their website. The Fringe Program is your complete guide to all of...

Former Winnipeg Allan Blye was a fantastic choice to entertain at the Winnipeg Mameloshen Festival of Yiddish Entertainment and Culture. He told a bevy of jokes about Winnipeg and encouraged the...

A.K.A. Doc Pomus Directors: Will Hechter and Peter Miller Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival The 2013 Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival featured three very different films on...

The Ballad of The Weeping Spring Director: Benny Torati Israel, 2012 Shown May 25, 2013 in the Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival  (put on by the Rady JCC and the Asper Foundation) The...

Funny and entertaining, Hava Nagila (The Movie) reveals universal themes about the importance of joy, the power of music and the resilient spirit of a people. Producer and Director Robert Grossman...

  So, we’re getting on in years.. We’ve retired from the job, or jobs, we held for many years. The wife, if she’s still with us, is busy with her gang of friends, or the...

    Angels In America: Perestroika Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Berney Theatre, Rady Centre May 1- 12   Angels In America: Perestroika is part two of Tony Kushner's grand drama about...

Acclaimed Canadian writer Carol Matas, who has examined the subject of Holocaust in ten of her books, launched her new book Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past, The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz on...

      Daddy Long Legs continues at RMTC to April 6     There's always a bit of trepidation when I return to a book I adored as a child. I read Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs...

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood RMTC in The Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre February 21-March 9   Director Tracey Flye Set and Costume Design Tamara Marie Kucheran Lighting Design Hugh Conacher...

A Review of Peter Beinart’s “The Crisis of Zionism” By Ran Ukashi   The Crisis of Zionism By Peter Beinart Times Books, 289 pages   Peter Beinart’s provocative book...

Sondheimfest continues through February 3, 2013 masterplaywrightfest.com Gallery Works Theatre's production of Sunday In the Park With George ran from January 20 to January 27, 2013, as part of...

The New Music Festival runs to February 2, 2013 newmusicfestival.ca “Pour out your tears, my eyes; for these things do I weep...” Lamentations 1:16   The Winnipeg Symphony...

From the opening sentence, “I represent a new generation of leaders who see Israel taking a different and more autonomous path....”, you know you are in for a different read on events by...

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's 22ndNew Music Festival will celebrate the work of the important American composer Steve Reich. There are many exciting features to this festival of contemporary...

Assassins Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by John Weidman Directed by Adam Brazier presented by Ontario companies Birdland Theatre and Talk Is Free Theatre at the Tom Hendry Warehouse...

Perhaps the best family musical I know of…                           ...

Enormous thanks are due to those who bring us the concerts of theTarbut Festival – Rady JCC Centre staff, music producer Karla Berbrayer, volunteers, and generous donors, now anchored by...

Title:       Little Rose Filmed:    Poland, 2010 Screenplay:   Maciej Karpinski, Jan Kidawa-Blonski Director: Jan Kidawa-Blonski English...

 Readers have been asking about the auditioning process in the Hollywood Scene. You Can have your name on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thousand Oaks is a beautiful area, less than a...

There are moments you remember all your life. There are moments you wait for and dream of all your life. This is one of those moments.   These words from Yentl convey how, in the most complete...