Murray Palay recently completed his term as the national chair of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University. He is a trailblazer in that he is the first national chair west of Ontario in...
The Cyril “Zeke” Marantz z”l Manitoba Jewish Athletes Wall of Honour at the Rose and Max Rady Jewish Community Centre is currently accepting...
Winnipeg Jewish Review: Can you tell me how the campaign is progressing? Are you finding that there are donors who are receptive to increasing their pledges because they understand how...
in Schoolbooks Taught in UNRWA Schools in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, 2016-2017 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which serves Palestinian Arabs who were ...
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Nazi-posters-found-at-Canadian-university-514197
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/world/europe/germany-anne-frank-train.html
HANDFUL OF U.S. OFFICIALS HELPED RESCUE JEWS FROM HOLOCAUST, NEW BOOK SHOWS WASHINGTON, D.C.- A new book is shedding light on a handful of U.S. government officials who helped rescue...
I’ve been around the block a time or two, so I’ve seen some of the great cities of the world. Except China, those massive cities that they have made almost uninhabitable with...
The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel suffered a significant defeat at the University of Winnipeg (UW) student union vote that occurred on October 25....
In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from student anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott,...
Dear Community Members, I would like to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for your generosity to the Federation’s Combined Jewish Appeal. As of today, we have...
Rabbi Matthew Leibl and Rabbi Anibal Mass both received their Rabbinic S’micha at a ceremony in New York held July 1st 2017 at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute (JSLI). On Nov 3-4, they...
In the minds of many, Poland is associated with one of the darkest chapters of Jewish history. It is a country that saw nearly a millenium of Jewish civilization and history wiped away in an...
Two years ago, the fiftieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate (Latin for 'in our Time') was celebrated, and was the occasion for three weekly lectures held at Mary Mother of the Church, in Fort...
Tribes by WJT at the Berney Theatre Oct 21 thru 29 2017 Oct 26 show will be ASL interpreted Tribes is an exciting show; I was deeply moved on opening night. The play concerns Billy, a...
It was in June 2010 that Dr. Catherine Chatterley established the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) and shortly thereafter gave the CEO of The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba a...
http://nationalpost.com/opinion/by-discouraging-criticism-of-islam-m103-could-make-it-harder-to-combat-anti-semitism
Rady JCC and Canadian Magen David Adom present: ISRAEL'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE MAGEN DAVID ADOM RESPONSE TO MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS: Get a glimpse of the day to day work of...
The Women's League of Congregation Etz Chayim is having a fantastic art auction on Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:00 pm at Congregation Etz Chayim, 123 Matheson East, Winnipeg. This...
Walking down Ben-Gurion street in Haifa, it is hard to imagine that this was area was once a nerve center for the Nazi party in the 1930's, where Nazi flags could be seen flying. ...
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland To Speak in Winnipeg October 31-November 2, 2017 Rabbi Michael Schudrich, who has served as both Chief Rabbi of Poland since 2000 as well...
(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 17 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust.) The Canadian...
The Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, Manitoba Chapter has been providing free dental service for Holocaust survivors since March 2016 as part of the the Alpha Omega-Henry Schein Cares Holocaust...
I recently watched the interesting 2014 German movie Das Zeugandas, The Witness House, now on Netflix and recommend seeing it (The film is in English, with some German). It is a...
The Eichmann Show a docudrama that was part of the BBC’s Holocaust Memorial season in 2015 is now on Netflix and is worth watching. In...
http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/government-hastily-removes-holocaust-plaque-that-doesnt-mention-jewish-people
The co-chairs of the Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) addressed a group of former Manitoba MLAs (AFFMLA) at a luncheon at the Canad Inns South on Sept 13, focusing on the AJD's mission...
The first documentary retrospective of Harry Seidler’s architectural legacy, Harry Seidler: Modernist (2016) was screened at the Berney Theatre on Sept 28, as part of the Rady JCC's Morley...
This worthwhile German film with English subtitles tells the true relatively unknown story of Fritz Bauer, a German Jewish lawyer who survived the Holocaust and returned to...
Stephen Vickar President of Vickar Nissan is very pleased that Ariel Maudi, an energetic 34 year old Israeli who immigrated to Winnipeg...
Subject: Can We Talk About…Anxiety Jewish Child and Family Service will launch the next installment of the speaker series Can We Talk About…on Thursday November 2nd, 7:30pm at Shaarey...
Isadore “Nick” Yudell (1916-1943) was a young Jewish photographer from rural Manitoba who documented the world around him during the Dirty Thirties, and whose work aspires to a modern...
Despite the fact that many Muslims do not recognize Israel's right to exist, this is not the original attitude reflected in the Qur'an, which actually recognizes the Land of Israel as...
"The old City [of Jerusalem] is the most highly protected place in the whole of the Middle East," said Mickey Rosenfeld, Israeli national spokesman to the Foreign...
Lazer Grant LLP is proud to celebrate its 35th Anniversary and looks forward to many more years serving its current and future clients. Joel Lazer, Managing Partner...
This past month, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the world was witness to something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime: white supremacist anti-Semites uttered words, and...
The JNF High Holiday Rabbi’s Luncheon was held on September 12, 2017 at Bermax Caffe. The Synagogues participating in our campaign this year are: Congregation Etz...
How do you imagine “Our Canada”? That is the question that artists of the WAVE Interlake Artists’ Studio Tour have been asking themselves this year. You...
In response to an anti-Semitic incident that occurred on social media between students of Shaftesbury High School, 95 year-old Holocaust survivor Cantor Moshe Kraus from Ottawa spoke at the school...
(Winnipeg, August 28, 2017) Houston - more than 6.5 million people…the fourth largest city in the USA has been sorely tested. The devastating rain and the catastrophic flash flooding...
Why is it so hard for us to shake off the past and begin anew? Why do we feel that we have to maintain a loyalty to past errors and mistakes? Is it ego? Do we have to romanticize the past to give it...
As the High Holy Days approach, I find myself reminiscing of days gone by. Gathering with my Mom and sisters at my Grandparents home to prepare for the celebration with friends and family following Rosh Hashanah services.
Chaired by Michael Silver, JNF Manitoba & Saskatchewan Vice President, the extremely successful event drew attendees from all ages and backgrounds: young families with children and newcomers. We...
The Nathan Morantz Z"L Memorial Golf Tournament organized by the Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the proceeds of which were directed to The Negev Autism Center at the...
In Hebrew, numbers can be represented by letters, the ancient way the Hebrews communicated numbers before the Arabic script was adopted. Among many Jews the number 18 is a favorite because...
Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Nimrod Barkan, told a gathering of politicians , and professional and lay leadership of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg at a breakfast meeting that there...
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Reflections on Being Old by Simone Cohen Scott I find it so much more dignified to say I'm about to become an octogenarian, than to say I'm turning eighty. Some people...
