Its concert is still five months away, but the Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble has already exceeded its corporate sponsorship goals, and donors are stepping forward in big numbers to make their...
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Grand Reopening of Rady JCC pool and Fitfest held
On Sunday February 5th, an official ceremony for the grand reopening of the Rady JCC pool was held at the Asper Campus auditorium. The major attraction is a brand new $100,000 water slide that was...
Asper Jewish Community Campus Resumes Operations After Bomb Threat
Dear Parents of Gray Academy students, In recent weeks, many Jewish communities across North America have received threats. This afternoon the RadyJCC received an email threat at...
Statement by MP Jim Carr on threat against Rady Jewish Community Centre
WINNIPEG - Jim Carr, MP for Winnipeg-South Centre, issued the following statement in response to last night's threat at the Rady Jewish Community Centre: I strongly condemn the...
MISUNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF ANTISEMITISM
(Dr. Medoff is the author or editor of 16 books on Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust.) The events of recent weeks have revealed a surprising abundance of self-proclaimed...
From the CJN: VANCOUVER JCC RECEIVES EMAILED BOMB THREAT
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Dov Spivak Corne and Micah Grubert Van Iderstine Get Major Scholarships From U of M and Queen’s And Thank Gray Academy for Helping Them to Succeed
Dov Raphael Spivak Corne, a member of the 2017 graduating class from Gray Academy of Jewish Education is the University of Manitoba 's Isabel Auld Entrance 2017/2018 Scholarship...
Intermarriage Reality was presented by Leslie Emery at Winnipeg Limmud 2017
On Sunday, March 5th at 9:00 a.m. at Winnipeg Limmud 2017, Leslie Emery described what it was like growing up in a family with multiple faiths and how she balances this in her own life. ...
From the CJN: Two Toronto JCC’s Evacuated Following Bomb Threats
http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/two-ontario-jccs-evacuated-bomb-threats
Max Roytenberg: Give and Take
Life can be tough! When young people find a partner, the one they hope to share their lives with, do they choose wisely? Is there real caring and commitment, or just the flush of youthful enthusiasm...
ROCK THE SHTETL ROCKED THE BERNEY
To kick off Limmud Winnipeg 2017, Rock the Shtetl and Friends played to an almost full house in the Berney Theatre on Saturday night, March 4th, 2017. For the first time, The Toronto...
From the Jerusalem Post: Who owns the Holy city: The Jerusalem Question?
http://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/Who-owns-the-Holy-City-484366
Boys Town Jerusalem Campaign for Passover 2017
Ori and Noam are two young boys who shared a lot in common. Both suffered a very difficult childhood, darkened by the poverty of their single parent families. Both boys faced an uphill struggle in...
Movie Review of A Tale of Love and Darkness on Netflix-Based on Amoz Oz’s Memoirs of His Childhood in Jerusalem and Establishment of the State of Israel
Anyone who has ever read a book by celebrated Israeli novelist Amos Oz, probably will be interested in the film about his childhood "A Tale of Love and Darkness" which came out...
Rivy Poupko Kletenik who spoke at Limmud: Good Out of Evil: Should the Holocaust be a teaching tool for perpetuating Jewish identity?
It was only once we were standing inside the gas chamber that I wondered if we had made a terrible mistake. We were following the itinerary. Get on bus. Drive to Auschwitz. Tour the blocks....
HARRIET BERKAL: THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT BEING A RABBI’S DAUGHTER WE’RE JUST HUMAN
Had my beloved father been a plumber, a car salesman, an insurance agent, doctor or a lawyer, my life would have been dramatically different. Why? The other professions don’t attach any...
Gwen Secter Creative Living Centre at Syd Glow Place 2017 Passover Catering Menu
Individual Entrees Roast Chicken $14.50 Accompanied by seasonal vegetables and a starch au jus Beef Brisket $14.50 Slow roasted beef brisket with homemade gravy, accompanied by seasonal...
From the Times of Israel: In long Awaited Condemnation Trump Says Horrible Anti-Semitism Must Stop
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-long-awaited-condemnation-trump-says-horrible-anti-semitism-must-stop/
From the Times of Israel: Citing Anti-semitism UK University Nixes Israel Apartheid Week
http://www.timesofisrael.com/citing-anti-semitism-uk-university-nixes-israel-apartheid-week/ ...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program features works Endre Farkas Hungarian-born Son of Holocaust Survivors
This year Winnipeg Jewish Community’s marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a program that took place on Thursday, January 26, at the Berney Theatre, sponsored by the...
LIMMUD RETURNS FOR ITS 7th YEAR! Saturday, March 4 & Sunday, March 5, 2017-See the Line Up
Asper Jewish Community Campus | 123 Doncaster | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada Limmud, or “learning” in Hebrew, is back in Winnipeg for its 7th year! We invite you to join us on the Asper...
Dennis Ross in US News : Trump,Netanyahu and the road to Middle East Peace
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-02-16/trump-netanyahu-and-the-road-to-middle-east-peace
CIJA Rejects Mosque ‘Clarification’ on Calls to Destroy Jews
Montreal, QC – On Monday, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs condemned calls for the destruction of Jews by an imam officiating in Montreal’s Islamic Centre Al-Andalus. In at...
Jaron Rykiss Jewish YouTuber in the House Limmud 2017
Jaron Rykiss shared his stories and tips about being a JewTuber at Limmud Winnipeg 2017 on Sunday March 5, 2017 at 2:45 p.m. He discussed how being Jewish influences what he creates and...
Tali Aziza Robinson Helps Diminish the Stigma of “Mental Health” at Limmud 2017
Mental health is an issue that affects about 1 in 4 Canadians making the concern both pressing and personal for all of us. Tali Aziza Robinson will present Employing Spirituality and Jewish...
Watch Trump Shout Down-Ultra-Orthodox-Reporter-Who-Asks-About-Anti-Semitism
http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-shouts-down-ultra-orthodox-reporter-who-asks-about-anti-semitism/
From the Jerusalem Post : Dershowitz:Trumps’s One State Comment A Ploy to Pressure Palestinians
http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Dershowitz-Trumps-one-state-comment-a-ploy-to-pressure-Palestinians-481850
FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: HOW A PRO-PALESTINIAN AMERICAN REPORTER CHANGED HIS VIEWS ON ISRAEL AND THE CONFLICT
http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/A-view-from-the-frontlines-480829
Solidarity Vigil Held in Wolseley In Response to Recent Anitsemitic Incident , and Other Hate Crimes including Attack on Mosque in Quebec
About 70-80 people gathered for a vigil in Wolseley February 12 in response to a recent antisemitic incident that occurred in the neighborhood, as well as hate crimes that have occurred...
Emily Rose in the Times of Israel: What We Talk About When We Talk About Gaza
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-gaza/
David Bedein: The Reality of coping with Saudia Arabia’s approach to Israel in light of Trump’s Massive Arms Deal with Saudia Arabia
By: David Bedein, Director, Center for Near East Policy Research [Editor's note: This article has been written in light of President Donald Trump's recent sale of weapons to...
Snow Swatika’s Found in Winnipeg and Montreal: Former Cabinet Minister Chris Melnick Wipes out Snow Swastika in St vital
Earlier this month Chris Melnick, a former NDP Cabinet Minister saw a large swastika drawn into the snow, along with the words "F--k Jews," in Winnipeg's St. Vital...
RECIPES FROM MARK TWAIN WHEN HE ATE IN JERUSALEM IN 1902-LAMP SOUP, BEAN CAKES, EGGS WITH YOGHURT
For the 50th anniversary of the re-unification of Jeruslaem, I thought I would publish the recipes used by Mark Twain , the famed author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom...
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE ADL’S PEACE PLAN
[Editor's note: M. Flatow, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored...
From the Wall street Journal: Mideast Rules For Jared Kushner
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mideast-rules-for-jared-kushner-1487031262
From the Jerusalem Post:When-Netanyahu-Slept-At-The-Kushners-And-Other-Media-Tales-Of-Trumps-Jewish-Confidantes
http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/When-Netanyahu-slept-at-the-Kushners-and-other-media-tales-of-Trumps-Jewish-confidantes-481486
David Asper in the Huffington Post: How 1970s Izzy Asper Meets Maxime Bernier
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-asper/izzy-asper-bernier_b_14635690.html
David Matas in Macleans: Canada Must Respond to Unsafe America
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/canada-must-respond-to-unsafe-america/
Recovering Alcoholic and Drug Addict will Discuss Addiction in Jewish Homes and Schools
Carli Rothman will present “Dirty Little Secret: Addiction in the Jewish Community” on Sunday March 5th at 4:00 p.m. at this year’s Limmud Winnipeg at the Asper Jewish Community...
Max Roytenberg: Growing Things
Things seem to be way out of control these days. So many of the things we used to take for granted in our lives now seem topsy-turvey. There used to be a right and a left, liberal, conservative,...
Rock the Shtetl and Friends Come to Limmud Winnipeg 2017
Ex- Winnipegger Allan Rosenbluth and his band join Shayla Fink and Kinzey Posen in Rock the Shtetl and Friends Concert on Saturday, March 4th at 8 p.m. at the Asper Jewish Community Campus....
On the Wrong Side of History-Boycotting Historians Denounce Blacklists Just as They Call for Blacklisting Israeli Academics
Of the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts, which, in their present form, are almost exclusively targeted at...
Jane Enkin Reviews WJT’s The Whipping Man: Exciting Driving Drama
The Whipping Man Winnipeg Jewish Theatre May 4 – 14, 2017 By Jane Enkin Jane Enkin Music and Story at janeenkinmusic.com “Home is the place where, when you have to go...
Canada’s Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) stands in solidarity with Quebec mosque shooting victims and their families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada's Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) today issued a statement of solidarity in standing with Quebec mosque shooting victims and their...
Trump’s U.N. Pick Is Friend of Israel and Vocal Opponent of B.D.S.
South Carolina Governor Nikki R. Haley, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be the new U.S. Ambassad0or to the United Nations, is not only a known and established friend of Israel. She is also...
Max Roytenberg: The Black Dot
This story is hackneyed with retelling, but I will tell it anyway. There is this story of the teacher who gave his students a test. Each one received a sheet of paper with a black dot in the middle....
Message from Adam Levene President of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg: Horrified about Attack on Muslims in Mosque in Quebec
Dear Community Members, We were horrified to learn of the idious attack on Muslims and the mosque in Quebec City. We have reached out to our contacts in the Muslim community in Winnipeg and have...
Inside the United Nations: The Full Story of the U.S. Abstention in the Security Council
In a break with all recent practice at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power Friday merely abstained on a U.N. Security Council Resolution critical of...
Balkan Backwater of Mass Murder: U.N. Exhibit Highlights Holocaust in Romania
In what has become a regular feature of its annual Holocaust commemoration, the United Nations opened the first of two exhibits on less-known aspects of the Holocaust, this one...
French-Sponsored Paris “Peace Conference”: Little Constructive Result, and No Threat to Israel
The much-vaunted (and much-feared) Conference called by the French in Paris for January 15th was—so it was rumored—a simple, anti-Israel plot. It would convene, produce and pass...













































