Ezra Glinter, former Winnipegger now living in New York, returned home to deliver a very scholarly, informative, and challenging lecture on the charismatic and controversial seventh,...
There is an upcoming Shalom Residences Community Information open house on Wed April 9 at the Asper campus in the Kroft boardroom at 7pm. The focus will be to discuss supported...
In an email sent by Shaarey Zedek Congregation on April 3,2024 President Fanny Levy announced to the congregation that “After an extensive and thoughtful search...
Palestinians in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7 2023 have been spontaneously protesting Hamas rule in Gaza. Will Ramsey Zeid, the President of the Canadian Palestinian Association of...
The Assiniboine and Red rivers flowing behind the St. Boniface Hospital, carry great historical value to our province. Inside the health care facility, life saving and urgent measures are taking...
Two IDF lone soldiers, Eli Wininger and Isaac Lutbak, recounted their experiences on the front line in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank as well as on a second battlefield in the advocacy war...
(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His book The Road to...
(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His book The Road to October 7:...
There were a number of sessions that addressed the October 7, 2023 massacre at the 15th Annual Limmud Winnipeg Festival of Jewish Life and Learning held at the Asper Jewish Community Campus...
[The following article was first published in Lifestyle 55 and is being reprinted here with permission.] Someone asked me the other day, as have many people over the years, “Why...
Mitnick's appearance in Wpg actually shows the stength of Israeli deomocracy Tal Mitnick appeared in Winnipeg as part of a cross Canada tour put on by Independent Jewish Voices., speaking at...
Manitoba Has High Rate of MS Did you know that Canada has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the world? In Manitoba, the incidence has increased steadily since 1984, with...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/ayn-rand-peikoff-inheritance-battle/682219/
ESTHER? THE POLITICS: THE BOOK EXPLORES ALL OPTIONS...BUT ONE? by Bryan Schwartz, March 22, 2024 Here in the Diasporas, Jewish identity and thriving are under attack. Some...
Omar El Akkad spoke at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg on March 9, 2025 about his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This . In November 2023, El...
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/three-ways-we-can-make-internal-trade-easier
I have just spent 3 weeks in my favourite travel destination. I travelled to Israel to volunteer and to be a tourist. The country is alive, young people are in clubs and...
I attended a book launch on Feb 14,2025 at McNally Robinson of a book written by Youcef Soufi , a researcher in Islamophobia with the Centre of Human Rights Research at the University of...
The Arab states are putting forth a plan to counter President Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and send Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt. But the crux of the matter is the question of...
A new documentary “The Justice Hunter" chronicles the life and work of David Matas, an internationally known lawyer in the field of human rights who has a...
Over 60% of students of the 514 students currently enrolled in Gray Academy of Jewish Education receive “some bursary support,” according to Lori Binder, CEO and Head of School at...
Jews love food which is why I had a gut instinct that A Taste of Limmud, exploring flavours of Jewish Cuisine held at the newly renovated Shaarey Zedek synagogue on Jan...
We should use this as an opportunity to revitalize our economy by reducing protectionism and rejuvenating the energy sector [This article below first appeared in the National Post Janaury 16,2025...
In Dec 2024 the Winnipeg Jewish Review asked questions to the UM administration after the graduate students union sponsored a one sided program at the CMHR made up only of anti-Israel...
Canada’s premier professional Jewish theatre company, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre (WJT), is seeking dedicated individuals to join its Board of Directors. Led by Artistic and Managing...
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/respecting-international-law-would-mean-disregarding-icc-warrants-against-israeli-leaders
Sandy Shindleman and Robert Shindleman of Shindico Realty Inc recently the Inaugural King Charles lll Coronation medal from MP Marty Morantz (There we’re others in the Jewish...
The Jewish Child and Family Service (JCFS) had been getting a $100,000 per year from a grant from Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), a federal government agency, but on Nov...
Israel is seeking a peace deal with Saudi Arabia. A Saudi deal would be a great accomplishment. It would help to mitigate the religious dimension of the conflict in the Middle East and throughout...
Pierre Poilievre told the Winnipeg Jewish Review in an exclusive telephone interview Dec 18, 2024 that he will not tolerate and will “defund” “all of those...
The Islamic Social services Association held the first national Muslim-Indigenous Solidarity Conference, which is occured at the Hilton Suites Airport Hotel on Jan. 25 and Jan....
As Chanukah, the festival of lights, approaches, I have been thinking about an ancient oil lamp found in the Holy land that I once saw in Tel-Aviv in Yael Dayan's...
(The article below was first published in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles - November 26, 2024...
Bridges for Peace, which fosters relations between Christians and Jews and supports Israel, held its annual Winnipeg fundraiser on Nov 19, 2024 and raised $55,000 for the...
The Justice Hunter, a powerful new documentary, tells the inspiring story of David Matas, a Winnipeg-based human rights lawyer known for his tireless work defending refugees, hunting down Nazi war...
The University of Manitoba Masters of Human Rights Students Association held an event on Dec 11,2024 at the CMHR entitled Canada’s Evolving Stand on Palestinian Statehood,...
[Editor's note: The article below will be reprinted in the Filipino Journal] The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg held a special Shabbat Dinner with members of the Filipino community...
On November 14, Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry had a very succesfui "Stand with Israel" event at the Asper Campus attended by some 100 people, during which cheques of $25,000...
Isaac was not the weakest link Abraham the founder of Judaism had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death...
On Oct 4, 2024 which was Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana), at an event sponsored by Islamic Relief Canada at the CMHR, Tarek Loubani, an emergency doctor, stated in regard to the...
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/manitoba-teachers-decry-unions-decision-to-cancel-antisemitism-education
As we fast approach Hanukah, it’s hard not to think of our brethren, barely surviving underground, day after day in Gaza. The Festival of Lights , reminds us that there is still hope in...
Following the recent events in Amsterdam where Jewish and Israeli fans of Maccabi Tel-Aviv were beaten, and knifed in the streets of Amsterdam Rabbi David Wolpe says that it is possible that Jews...
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, Prime Minister Trudeau's special adviser on antisemitism and Jewish community issues, said he said yes to Trudeau when offered the position, "because...
One of the many innovations developed by The Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa Israel is in the area of food technology, where Technion has developed hamburgers made out of meat, that...
On Yom Kippur, pro-Palestinian protesters moved their weekly protests from City Hall on Main Street to gather on Kenaston and Grant in the heart of Winnipeg’s Jewish community,...
The following members of the Jewish community received the King Charles III Coronation Medal (They are listed in alphabetical order): Gail Sheryl Asper, OC, OM, LLD As President of The Asper...
Israel is an incredibly beautiful country, rich in history and spiritual significance for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. There is no other country like it in the world. In 2016, I...
If you go online on Etsy, you can buy coffee cups that say “We shall Dance Again” to commemorate the victims at the Nova Festival on the October 7 Hamas attacks. I...
As the tragic conflict in the Middle East continues, so too does the increase of tensions here in Canada. One narrative that has grown more dominant in the past few months is that...
