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“Rhyming Life & Death” by Amos Oz, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, N.Y., translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange, 2009, 117 pages   Rhyming Life & Death,...

“And This Is the Light” by Lea Goldberg, The Toby Press, New Milford, CT & London, England, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav, with an Introduction and Afterword by Nili...

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A Blond pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly. She says, "So What's the story?" He replies,...

With my youngest child having just turned five, I find myself reflecting on my time of early parenthood, and specifically on the challenge of choosing baby names. Most parents-to-be enjoy the naming...

During his annual visit to a school in Tel Aviv, the inspector from the ministry of Education asked a student “Who broke the Tablets of the covenant?” The student quickly replied...

My husband now wants to eat healthy and asked me to buy ORGANIC vegetables from the market. I went and looked around and couldn't find any. So I grabbed an old, tired looking employee and said,...

Can I Break the Yom Kippur Fast? Shapiro's son, Greg, walked up to his father's rabbi during the break between the Musaf and Mincha services on Yom Kippur. "Rabbi Pollak, you must help me...I...

An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy, a rather rare occurance in Israel, to say the least. After examining it, he called the curator...

There are many challenges that present themselves in life. One of mine is going to visit my mother at the nursing home where she now lives.   My mother, Hilda Stern, is a resident at the Simkin...

[Editor's note: Aviva Cohen in addition to being a fine writer is also the Editor's neighbor, and after her review of the  new cookbook "Kosher Elegance" she majically appeared at our...

  This is my favorite honey cake recipe.  I make it every year because it is not only a little healthier than a normal white flour cake but it is easy to make and even those who don't like...

  [This article first appeared in the  Ottawa Jewish Bulletin]   On a recent family trip to London, my husband and I took our kids to see their first big-budget, West End musical....

The Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth and one of Israel's most popular tourist sites, is one of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature, an international online competition to grade the...

Israel's Selah Adom Band  which took its audience on an exciting and nostalgic musical journey from the creation of the state of Israel unitll  today, wowed the diverse ...

This piece was first published in  New English Review Last month the sun came out in New York City. As its rays bounced off the two marble lions that flank the neo classical entrance to the New...

Two hundred supporters of the Winnipeg Jewish theatre (WJT) came out to the Berney Theatre on June 1, 2011 to honour Kayla Gordon. The WJT fundraiser celebrated the many theatrical achievements...

On all other holidays we celebrate eight days. On Shavuot we celebrate only two days. On most other holidays we eat chicken soup, chopped liver and roasts, but on Shavuot festival we eat blintzes...

As I do every year as summer approaches, I have begun putting aside books to shlep out to the cottage for my reading pleasure in July and August. So far, this stack of summer reading is mostly made...

We are now an NHL City. Yes!   Well the transaction has been made though contingent on the NHL board of directors voting positively on the Atlantic Thrasher moving here. Mr. Gary Bettman at the...

The parsha in a chapter from the book of Leviticus narrates part of the instructions given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. The chapter deals with a number of sexual activities considered 'unclean'...

The Holocaust Commemoration office of the United Nations recently held a showing—very close to Yom Hashaoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)—of a new film on the difficult efforts of those...

Miral, the recently-released film by artist/director Julian Schnabel, seems a strange and almost disquieting project: a film made by a Jewish director, with the support and participation of many...

Sven Alkalaj is a Jew from Sarajevo, descended from ancestors who came there in (at the latest) the early 19th century. His community is at least two centuries older. And he has served—for...

When I was 20 I drove with my friend Trish from Calgary to Toronto where we were both attending university.  We crammed all our belongings into my little second hand blue Mazda GLC and set out for a four- day road trip adventure that included a stop in Moose Jaw to have dinner with my Grandma Bea. 

The Museum of Modern Arts in Salzburg, Austria, has decide to return a Klimt painting in their possession to the rightful owner, after it had been seized by Nazis during World War II.

We turn the earth, add fertilizer rake the surface smooth, dig holes for small plants. The first week everything was fine  -  the lettuce grew so fast we could almost see it...

David Matas and I did an independent report on what is still happening to the Falun Gong community across China and the importance of raising public awareness about it worldwide in the months prior to the Beijing Olympics in August, 2008.

Four women getting together for dinner to celebrate one of the four’s 50th birthday doesn’t really sound all that extraordinary. Well, in the case of my friend Elaine’s 50th...

 Cottage  Cheese  Muffins  1-12 ounce box of dry cottage cheese 3 tablespoons of sugar 14 cup margarine  or butter 2 eggs Pinch of salt 1 cup of flour 2 teaspoons  of...

With Passover around the corner, my thoughts are turning to how to make the story of

I attended the Limmud conference, where Faye Rosenberg Cohen led a conversation about what our community would look like in the future. Faye Rosenberg Cohen posed questions like, "what will our...

Around the long oval table we wait in anticipation. Our whole family is here, plus friends and even strangers – No Jew should be alone tonight! At last the youngest child, the shy little boy...

The Wrong War Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan By Bing West Reviewed by David Bedein More than 20 years ago, a veteran Moscow reporter who had covered the Russian defeat at the hands of...

Have you ever spent an uncomfortable weekend at the cottage with your family? Multiply that experience by 100 and you approach Michael Nathanson’s premise for his new comedy, One of Ours. The...

Ben Sures launches signature album to celebrate 20 years of recording on April 8, 2011, 7 to 9 p.m. at Times Changed High and Lonesome Club, 234 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

President Obama is right: We can take the U.S. off oil. But he omitted to mention the fine print: Doing so will be slow, will be expensive, and will involve huge dislocations in American lifestyles and business.

  An Article by  Robert Sibley, Ottawa Citizen March 30, 2011  in the Ottawa Citizen is worth a read. It begins: Carleton University administrators were forced Tuesday to abandon a...

One of the under-reported aspects of the  recent  Limmud Conference in Winnipeg

As a writer, I sometimes feel that I am like a photographer, taking a picture of a person’s soul.

It has been reported that popular protests against Syria’s 48 years of emergency law entered its third day this past Sunday. Authorities sought to appease the movement by promising to free...

Purim, the holiday we just celebrated, is a holiday of disguise and inversion. As we celebrate having dodged another historical attempt at Jewish extinction, we are told to imbibe “until we don’t know the difference between cursed is Haman and blessed is Mordechai.” We also don costumes, changing our physical appearance for a day.

  Hwere is a  little human interest item ifor Winnipeggers who are interested.  This is a picture of 4 men, two still living in Winnipeg, and two not--  who recently...

Do you, or someone you know, have a substance abuse or dependency issue? Does it affect professional, personal or emotional lives? Substance abuse occurs when we self-medicate. Self-medication is out of control.

[Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles the Winnipeg Jewish Review is publishing about  various sessions that took place at  the first Limmud in Winnipeg, an...

I have come to the Hobbesian notion that as human beings we are the worst of the lot on the planet. In Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya we hear of people struggling

Rand Heidinger is 46 year old professional Winnipeg Jewish artist whose work resides in many private and public collections around the world. Rand Heidinger’s art is uniquely dynamic,...

    Purim is a Jewish holiday that falls before Passover. To celebrate this holiday, we eat triangle-shaped cookies filled with prunes or poppy seed to remind us of the evil man Haman, who...

It’s more like Obama is deeply concerned about realizing his own vision for Israel’s future.

Imagine the historical legacy Obama would create for himself, if he was instrumental in realizing  the “holy grail”  2 state Israel-Palestinian peace solution that has eluded his predecessors and all  world leaders.  Don’t think that thought has not crossed Obama’s mind.