Every year we wish each other a heartfelt Shona Tovah, a Happy New Year, during the High Holiday season. It is a custom that remains with us all our living days. We remember the fuss that went into...
As the High Holidays approach I would like to explore the question of whether G-d cares about the way we think? Many people will answer that what G-d is interested in is the way we act and less...
It's now seventeen years since I led my first High Holy Day services at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Seventeen years is long enough for an entire generation to have come of age.
At Sobeys Grant Park, we are pleased and proud to offer a wide selection of Kosher products to serve our local community. I have made a commitment to be personally involved with the...
Dear Community Members, Yesterday, local media reported the appearance of graffiti on Wellington Crescent promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. In specific, the offensive writings –...
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 when Jordan...
We are less than two months away from the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), and although the spirit of this Holiday starts to manifest during the month of Elul (last month of the Jewish year), this is the time when hundreds of families start planning what kind of Service they want to experience.
I have had occasion recently to taste some take out kosher food prepared by Gwen Secter Creative Living Centre, which would be great to order for Rosh Hashana (Jump down to see the...
Thank you for this award. The award, as perhaps it should, has got me thinking about the values of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi taught non-violence, the spirit of truth and tolerance of...
John Russell is V.P. of the Red River Apiarists Association and Proprietor of The John Russell Honey Company Honey is a delicious staple for many of us, and is a...
I realized something the other day. Shaarey Zedek has a long history of rabbis over the last 125 plus years, but how many of those rabbis could look out over the congregation on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and say to themselves, “I sat in those seats when I was a kid!”
(Remarks delivered to an AMIA commemoration, 18 July 2017, Winnipeg) How best to remember the 1994 AMIA bombing? One way is to provide a remedy for the surviving victims and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 11, 2017 The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba & Saskatchewan Regional Branch is pleased to announce our 2018 Negev Gala Honourees:...
A twenty year old Jewish young adult luckily escaped injury after three teenagers who appeared to have Somali accents swarmed around him on their bicycles, as one of them pulled a knife...
Shana is responsible for overseeing many of the day-to-day functions and operations of the agency including: collaborative leadership with the Management Team for program implementation, evaluation...
We cannot deny that our world is full of joyful things that illuminate our lives. Indeed, they come in so many forms that they are almost impossible to describe and enumerate. And they vary with the...
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement targeting the State of Israel, has been in existence for at least 15 years. It is a global campaign to increase economic and political pressure...
Walter Saltzberg (born Wacek Zalcberg) received "The Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers " on July 23, 2017 from Her Honour, Janice Filmon the...
Our drive up Mount Tabor in Northern Israel turned out to be quite an adventure – especially since at the top of this scenic peak I got into the wrong...
[Editor's note: The Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble's Ancient Roads concert on June 7 2017 was a resounding success. Not only was the concert enjoyable and well-received but the...
Two excellent recent articles (American Jewry is Disappearing by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg and American Jewry: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Heading? Two Views by Schick and...
This year Camp Massad approaches its 65th Anniversary (Official Senior Citizen status). Here's a few updates on what's been happening at the Camp. To begin with for the first time in...
One of the strongest instincts possessed by living things is their striving to continue living, to express their struggle for survival. Living things struggle to keep on living. The complexity and...
Antisemitism Studies – Journal of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. Dr. Catherine Chatterley, Editor-in-Chief. Published by Indiana University Press,Volume 1, Number 1...
Thank you for this award. The award, as perhaps it should, has got me thinking about the values of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi taught non-violence, the spirit of truth and tolerance of...
In 1970, during my first months in Israel, I lived with two fellows who were learning at HUC, the Hebrew Union College. They very much wanted to live in Israel. Yet they...
Dear Community Members, As we welcome July, I would like to wish you all a Happy Canada 150! We are so fortunate to live in such a diverse and accepting democracy which we celebrated this past...
There is a very good British political spy thriller television miniseries that is now on Netflix The Honourable Woman, which deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, directed and...
This year, the largest graduate class in over a 100 year history of Jewish education in Winnipeg, went on an Israel Trip. Twenty three of the 47 graduates of Gray Academy embarked on a two...
Murray Gilfix, one of the co-chairs of the BB Camp Capital Campaign is proud to announce a donation of $250,000 from Barry and Rena Shenkarow, Carrie Shenkarow and Jason Olin and Mira and Matthew...
To commemorate Canada’s 150 years Bulrushes Gallery is celebrating contemporary printmaking in Canada. Bulrushes Gallery, located in a picturesque park like setting just 3 Km west...
This year's JNF Gala Honouring Rabbi Green, with net proceeds being directed to the World Jewish Museum, was a huge success. There were over 1300 tickets sold for the event to honour Rabbi...
Prof Amnon Rubinstein: The Mistakes after the Victory [Editor's note: This article was written 10 years ago on the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War when in I I met ...
[Editor's note: The article below was written 10 years ago on the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War when I heard Shimon Peres speak when he was a member of Kadima and Ehud Olmert was...
![Center of photo: Yoram Hamizrachi [East] with his reserve Paratroopers Unit 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SIX DAY WAR: REMEMBERING YORAM EAST, A SOLDIER IN THE PARATROOPERS RESERVE BRIGADE THAT LIBERATED THE WESTERN WALL-“HAR HABAYIT BEYADEINU](https://wp.winnipegjewishreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/t_img_5477.png)
I’ve been thinking about IDF Colonel Yoram Hamizrachi (East) who passed away in October 2010 . I ’ve been thinking of the fact that fourty five years ago this month...
[Editor's note: This article was written 10 years ago on the 40th anniversary of the six day war when I heard Dalia Rabin, the daughter of the late Yitzhak Rabin, and...
[Editor's note: This article which was written ten yeas ago just before the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War on June 5, 2007 is being reprinted now as the 50th anniversary of the Six Day...
Editor's Pick: Award Winning Israeli Film Sand Storm Set in Bedouin Village on Netflix is Really Worth Seeing The 2016 Israeli Film Sand Storm, (Hebrew: ????...
The very interesting film Sarajevo that has recently been added to Netflix, an Austrian feature about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, has a Jewish angle to it, and I...
[This article is dedicated to Alvin Corne 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 train...
Margaret Trudeau addressed the largest ever Jewish Foundation of Manitoba’s Women’s Endowment Fund Luncheon on the topic of mental illness held at the RBC...
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The Devil's Mistress, the true story of a Czech actress who Hitler's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels fell madly in love with, has just been added to Netflix and is worth...
MR GAGA Germany/Israel/Netherlands/Sweden, 2015, English, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Tomer Heymann, 100 minutes Guest Speaker: Brent Lott, Artistic Director, Winnipeg’s...
Fanny’s Journey Le Voyage de Fanny France/Belgium, 2016, French with English subtitles, Director: Lola Doillon, 94 minutes Jane Enkin Music and Story at janeenkinmusic.com For schedule of...
In Search USA, 2015, English, Director: Roger Sherman, 97 minutes Guest Speaker: Director, Roger Sherman May If you are fascinated by Israeli culture and its startlingly quick...
For the 50th anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem day this year, I thought I would publish the recipes used by Mark Twain , the famed author of Huckleberry Finn and...
Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions Chezionot bilti poskim Germany/Israel, German, Hebrew with English subtitles, Director: Duki Dror, 71 minutes By Jane Enkin for the Winnipeg Jewish Review Jane...
BB Camp’s Capital Campaign, which was launched November 2016, is on its way to reaching its monetary goal. The campaign, which is set out to raise $6-8 million dollars, has surpassed over $...
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