My mom was a wash and set type of gal. Sometimes she would throw in the odd perm, to make her life easier. She stayed with same stylist forever. She was loyal to a “T”. So, in later...
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New BGU COVID-19 Test Identifies Asymptomatic Carriers
Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed an algorithm-based test that can speed COVID-19 testing eightfold and help identify asymptomatic carriers. The testing system is based on the method...
Dr. Chatterley Delivers A Sweeping Overview of the State of Antisemitism in 2020
Dr. Catherine Chatterley, founding director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, delivered this year's Shindleman Lecture online by giving a sweeping overview of the state of...
2020 Rady JCC Summer Day Camps Officially Sold out
[Editor's note: Below is a press release issued by the Rady JCC about its Summer Day Camps being sold out , and below the press release is an article about Rady JCC Summer Day Camps that was...
Gray Academy Has Been Exceptional During the Pandemic at teaching online with Gray Away- Gray Is Postponing Convocation Ceremony for Grade 12 Grads
[Editor's note: This article will focus on the High school and the Graduating class of Gray Academy] When the Province of Manitoba announced that, effective March 23, all schools in...
Pastor Rudy Fidel of Faith Temple Has a Huge Heart for Israel and is Passionate About the Need for Holocaust Education
Pastor Rudy Fidel of Faith Temple is a Winnipegger with a huge heart for Israel who has led tours there and been there 22 times. Rudy recalls that his very first trip to Israel was in...
CAROLINE GLICK GIVES INSIGHTFUL LECTURE ON IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON ISRAEL AND THE WIDER REGION
American Israeli Journalist Caroline Glick, who spoke live via zoom on June 7, as part of the Adas Yeshurun Herzlia Distinguished Lecture series, outlined how Covid-19 has impacted...
CAMP MASSAD OVERNIGHT CAMP IS CANCELLED THIS SUMMER DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
[Editor's note: This was posted on Camp Massad's facebook page on June 4, 2020] Shalom Camp Massad Chanichim and Parents, As the spring begins to turn into summer, all of us at Camp...
RENOWNED ECONOMIST BENJAMIN TAL GIVES INSIGHTFUL BRIEFING ON CANADA’S ECONOMY IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 AT ISRAEL BONDS AGM
Renowned economist, Benjamin Tal shared his insights about Canada‘s economy in light of the coronavirus pandemic at the Israel Bonds General Annual Meeting held via zoom on May 27,2020, which...
JOEL LAZER, PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF WINNIPEG: MY VIEW FROM THE INSIDE DURING COVID-19
Dear Community, Gray Academy, Rady JCC and Jewish Child and Family Service (JCFS) are the three most well-known organizations in our community and are run by Lori Binder, Rob Berkowits and Al...
The History of Winnipeg Beach-Harry Silverberg used to own the Pavillion and Amusement Attractions including the Roller Coaster in the 60’s
[This article is dedicated to Alvin Corne z"l and Marty Corne. Alvin told me about how he and his brother Marty had their first job hauling luggage from the passengers who got off the CPR...
LARRY SARBIT IN THE FINANCIAL POST: INVESTORS TRY THIS STRATEGY TO SURVIVE FINANCIALLY AND PROTECT YOUR CAPITAL AMID ALL THIS CHANGE
https://business.financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/investors-try-this-strategy-to-survive-financially-and-protect-your-capital-amid-all-this-change
Federation’s ‘Immediate Needs Goal’ for its Emergency Covid 19 Community Relief Fund is $750,000
The Winnipeg Jewish Review has obtained a copy of a document sent out by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg that indicates that the “immediate needs goal” of the Covid 19 Community Relief...
Rabbi Yosef Benarroch: What Jerusalem Means to Me
In one word, EVERYTHING. Let me explain. I was born in the city of Tangiers in Spanish Morocco, which makes me a Sephardic Jew. Sephardic Jews trace their ancestry to Spain and were expelled from...
BB Camp is cancelled for this summer due to the Coronavirus
[Editor’s note: This message below was posted on. B.B. Camp’s Faceboook page recently.] It is with heavy hearts that we announce the cancellation of our Summer 2020 season. ...
Counselling during a Pandemic: Welcome to my virtual office. Please, take a seat.
Here I sit, in my newly configured makeshift home office, with an iPad propped up on a table easel next to my computer, a coffee in hand and in the company of my dog and 2 cats. Not having to...
Richlu Manufacturing is Making Fabric Face Masks that are being distributed Across Canada and the U.S.-Even for use by The City of Chicago, Public Works
Richlu Manufacturing has been making fabric face masks to fight against the spread of the coronavirus, and their masks are now being distributed all across Canada and the United States. "We...
Jewish Federation Staff Leads Car Parade at Simkin Centre
On the morning of morning May 20, 2020 the staff of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg led a car parade at the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre, located at 1 Falcon Ridge Dr. Adam...
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue- Cemetery Perpetual Care Update // COVID19
[Editor's note: Below is a message sent out by Shaarey Zedek synagogue to its members advising that flowers will not be planted on graves this year given the unique situation of the coronavirus]...
BGU Develops 1 Minute Covid-19 Test
BGU's Prof. Gabby Sarusi (pictured at left) has developed and is now validating a test that identifies carriers of the COVID-19 virus in less than a minute with greater than 90%...
Chesed Shel Emes Update
[Editor's note: This email was sent out by the Chesed Shel Emes on May 12 ] Dear Friends, One year after announcing our Capital Campaign and building project, we are very excited...
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue Update // COVID 19
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Shaarey Zedek Synagogue's update dated May 4, 2020 signed by Frank Hechter, President and Ian Staniloff, Executive Director of...
Efraim Halevy , Former Director of the Mossad at a CFHU webinar gives overview of COVID-19’s impact on Israel’s homefront and on its relationship with its neighbours
Efraim Halevy, former Director of the Mossad, gave a perceptive overview of COVID-19’s impact on Israel’s domestic reality and on its relationship with its Middle East neighbours and...
Rosé Soirée presents SoirIN: A Gala, fine dining and musical event, at home in support of St. Boniface Hospital on May 28-Lesley Wolman and her brother Eric Corne will both be performing
Will it be black ties and ball gowns, or sweatpants and slippers? On Thursday, May 28, the choice is yours while you savour cuisine and enjoy all-Canadian entertainment from the comfort of your...
Mezzo Homes’s Granny Suites Are Very Attractive for Seniors or As Self Isolation Units In light of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Mezzo Homes has designed a Garden Suite (known as a Granny Suite) that can act as a unit for seniors or a self isolation unit, which many will find very attractive especially in light of...
Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Distributes Almost $300,000 in Emergency Relief Funding to 26 Manitoba Based Jewish Organizations and Four of Wpg’s Front Line Charities
Over the past few weeks, the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba (JFM) has distributed almost $300,000 in emergency relief funding due to the coronavirus pandemic to 26 Manitoba based Jewish Organizations...
Editor’s Report: Will Trump Allow Israel to Annex large parts of the West Bank before the U.S. November Election?
The unity government agreement signed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz will allow Israel to initiate legislation to annex about 30% of...
Harriet Berkal: Turning A Blind’s Eye
My mom was born in the US in 1917. She moved from Grand Forks to Winnipeg in 1954, pregnant with her third child. Sara Berkal retained her US citizenship until her death in 2009. She never naturalized to become a Canadian. She was a proud American. It surprised me that she never became a citizen of Canada.
David Bedein: 15 Policy Challenges for the New Head of UNRWA
The appointment of Swiss diplomat Phillpe Lazzarini as the new head of UNRWA is a window of opportunity for UNRWA donor nations, which oversee UNRWA policy, to demand a reform of UNRWA. This is...
MB Chapter of The Alpha Omega Dental Society, which began as a Jewish Fraternity, Delivers Lunches and Dinners to Front Line Care Workers in Hospitals Battling The Coronavirus
The Manitoba Chapter of the Alpha Omega Dental Society (Fraternity), which began as a Jewish Fraternity but today is non-denominational (with both Jewish and non-Jewish members) has made a $5000.00...
53rd Anniversary of the Six Day War:Did the Soviets along with Egypt and Syria deliberately provoke the Six Day War with the aim of launching an airstrike on Dimona, to prevent Israel from becoming a Nuclear power?
Anticipation of 1967 war spurs Israel to produce nuclear bomb One fascinating theory of the Six Day War is that it was deliberately provoked by the Soviets in co-operation with Egypt and Syria...
Prominent Economist David Rosenberg at Israel Bonds Webinar Gives Insightful Economic Analysis to over 300 people
David Rosenberg, who has been referred to as Canada's most famous economist gave an insightful economic briefing at a webinar hosted by State of Israel Bonds on April 27, 2020. Over...
53rd Anniversary of the Six Day War: My Visit to A Rather Unknown Palace in East Jerusalem- the Hill of Beans
There is a "Hill of Beans " in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, and on it lies an unfinished palace that Jordan's King Hussein began to build...
Israeli Medical Student Who Receives $100,000 From Philip &Ellie Kives and Family Fund Develops Software To Accelerate Completion of Covid19 Research Trials
[Editor's note:The student referred to in this article received $100,000 from the Philip and Ellie Kives and Family Fund at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ]...
Interview with Joel Lazer President of the Jewish Federation about the Covid 19 Community Relief Fund
The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg recently started a Covid 19 Community Relief Fund campaign and the Winnipeg Jewish Review has had the opportunity to ask Federation President Joel Lazer a...
Editor’s Report: A Taxi Ride to a Palestinian Refugee Camp
Several years ago, I was asked by an Israeli journalist to go to the UNWRA Palestinian Refuge camp of Deheishe in Bethlehem (under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority) to snap some photos...
Larry Sarbit: For more than a decade, cash was trash for investors — then it became king
[This article was first published in the Financial Post on] For almost 11 years, from the bottom of the market in 2009, to a few weeks ago, cash had come to be regarded as a burden to equity...
David Bedein: In March and April 2020 Palestinian official media Blames Israel for the Coronavirus and says Israel Itself is a Virus
[ David Bedein is the Director, Israel Resource News Agency at The Center for Near East Policy Research] Israel is actively involved in helping the Palestinian Authority deal with COVID-19....
Reesa Cohen Stone: Israel Celebrates 72 years of Independence In the Year of Corona – So Much to be Proud of
Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes. Mary Anne Radmacher This year, on the fifth of the month of Iyar, 5780, the year of Corona, Israel is...
Harriet Berkal: Pondering a Pandemic…The Nasal Swab Was a Piece of Cake
If someone would have told me in December 2019, just 4 months ago, that I’d be wearing a mask in front of a bank teller to retrieve funds, I’d have looked at them and wondered if they...
RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG FROM NEW JERSEY: THOUGHTS ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE
I was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany of Polish parents. I came to America as a refugee. I pray that the Holocaust and the memory of those who perished will be kept alive by our...
From the Jerusalem Post: Germanys Largest Paper to Chinas President-Your’e Endangering-The-World
https://www.jpost.com/international/germanys-largest-paper-to-chinas-president-youre-endangering-the-world-625074
From the President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg: Announcing the COVID-19 Community Relief Fund
It’s hard to wrap our heads around how different the world looks today compared to just a month ago, and we continue to do our best to be there for those in need, ensuring that no one gets...
From the Forward: Your Guide to Every Single Israeli TV Show and Movie You Can Stream Right Now
https://forward.com/culture/434533/your-guide-to-every-single-israeli-tv-show-and-movie-you-can-stream-right/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday%20Newsletter%20RSS&ut...
DR. RAFAEL MEDOFF: WHY THOSE SYRIAN ATROCITIES STILL MATTER
(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of more than 20 books, and several hundred essays, about the Holocaust and Jewish history.) At...
Why is it Important to Translate into German the Contents of Palestinian Authority Textbooks Used in UNRWA Schools?
The German instigation of the mass murder of Jews began in the classroom. Germany, now a democratic power in Europe with peace-oriented policy worldwide, is now the leading donor state...
Bridges For Peace’s Message to the Community
Greetings to our Jewish friends from Bridges for Peace Canada! As you may know, we are “Christians supporting Israel and building relationships between Christians and Jews, in Israel...
From the Globe and Mail: Former Liberal Justice Minister [Irwin Cotler] Urges Sanctions Against Chinese who covered up Early Covid 19 outbreak
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-former-liberal-justice-minister-urges-sanctions-against-chinese/
David Bedein: De facto Annexation in Israel: Because of Reality on the Ground. Not because one side of the Political Spectrum Won Their Case.
Too often, discussions of annexation of territory to Israel are lost in an ideological dispute that will never be resolved. Such debates avoid discussion of reality on the ground where no dispute...
Humour with Reesa Cohen Stone: Art in the Time of Corona
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. ? Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance After a week of being home...
