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Wow! I never thought to make this connection. We are living in a world where everybody can be connected, but with public services, can survive disconnected. But, in our highly organized society we...

The Federation is still seeking community members to complete our age friendly survey. This email is directed to individuals who may be related to a senior in the Jewish community and to...

      Donald Trump took a number of positions on Israel that many of us may not have paid much attention to, since the mainstream media in the United States had virtually crowned...

      What an amazing Family Camp Day at Camp Massad on July 1st, 2016. Over 230 people, young and old, came to partake in all the festivities and activities on this sunny day.  ...

Memory was the most vital element of Elie Wiesel’s life. That’s why such institutions as Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and Israel’s Yad Vashem were so dear to him. Especially Yad Vashem.

  This year's JNF Negev Gala was a major success, the honouree Peter Leipsic gave a  generous leadership gift to the JNF, and in so  doing he has served as a role model for others...

I've had quite some time to reflect on  novelist  Sayed Kashua's lecture at the University of Winnipeg who spoke here  as part of 2016 Middle East Peace Week and wanted to...

Part of the Family – Christadelphians, the Kindertransport, and Rescue from the Holocaust is a new book about the interaction between Christadelphians and Jewish children during the time of the Second World War. As part of the Kindertransport movement in 1938 and 1939, over 250 Jewish children were brought into Christadelphian homes and hostels––many of their stories being previously undocumented. This book records the experiences of 10 of these individuals.

  My Bride and I have returned to Canada after being away for almost ten years. We are happy residents in Vancouver for the first time. We were raised in Winnipeg and appreciate the milder...

I identify as a Jew, despite not having entered a synagogue in the last decade. At a dinner this past week, I was asked how I could consider myself Jewish, given that my mother is not Jewish by...

The first privately sponsored Yazidi refugee family will be arriving in Winnipeg on June 29, 2016. The family, sponsored by the Operation Ezra coalition of Winnipeg, will be arriving from the Midyat...

"JAzZ... & aLL tHaTJaZz"   GABRIELA OCEJO | LINDSAY WOOLGAR ELI HERSCOVITCH  | JANE ENKIN | GARY BRENNER | JEREMY RUSU KELLY BADO | TERRY YOUMANS    "LiFe iS A...

Sidney Halpern was recently honoured on May 12 at a Members’ Recognition Dinner of CPA Manitoba at the Canadian human rights Museum  with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement...

Theodore Bikel and Sholom Aleichem – two Jewish cultural treasures, whose creatives lives bridged the old world and the new. Theodore Bikel begins this lovely documentary/performance film by...

Fever at Dawn opens in Jerusalem, as an aging woman, played by radiant Israeli actor Gila Almagor, shops in busy markets, relaxes in outdoor cafes, and walks through streets buzzing with people of...

Two films in the 2016 Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival had a similar starting point:  a young woman is uncomfortable with her life in an Orthodox community and longs for...

This year's Jewish Foundation's Women’s Endowment Fund Luncheon which occurred at the newly expanded RBC Convention Centre on May 11 was the largest ever  with 400...

This year, for the first time ever the Gray Academy of Jewish Education held its grade twelve graduation dinner and dance at a the Manitoba Club, a private club that was founded in 1874 and that did...

On May 27, the McGill Daily student newspaper produced a news articlewhich gave a platform to the incendiary allegation that Israel intentionally tests weapons products on presumably innocent...

 Some of the major grocery stores in the North End have recently decided to stop carrying kosher meat and other Kosher Products, but these meats and poultry  are still readily available at...

My head is spinning with the pace of change!. I’m an old guy, so I can remember when we had horses being used to deliver stuff to our houses every day. Today horses are a romantic memory in...

      [Editor's note: Readers of this publication may remember that in 2013 I traveled to Nuremberg Germany and went inside the Frauenkirche church in Nuremberg which was built on...

Location: 801 Kernstead Road, 3 K west of Hwy 9 and Winnipeg Beach   Hours:: Noon to 5:00 P.M., Thursday through Sunday   www.bulrushesgallery.ca   bulrushes@mymts.net  ...

With all the talk of a possible third party candidate in this year's presidential race, it's instructive to look back at a presidential election in which a significant number of American...

    [First published in Israel Hayom]   The recent shenanigans that preceded the expansion of the government sickened even those reconciled to the reality that, since the Menahem...

  By: Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center Director www.sderotmedia.com Israeli advocacy is dealing with a propaganda machine there that would make the Third Reich proud.  And parts of the...

      News that Hezbollah terror chief Mustafa Badreddine had been killed in Syria spurred considerable news coverage, both domestically here in Canada and abroad.    ...

  [Reprinted from http://www.danielpipes.org   http://www.danielpipes.org/16823/why-i-rooted-for-the-turkish-coup-attempt]   . Every major government condemned the coup attempt in...

  THE STORY THE AGE OF LOVE follows the humorous and poignant adventures of thirty seniors in Rochester, NY who sign up for a first of it’s kind speed dating event exclusively for 70...

          A full to capacity crowd witnessed the unveiling of a new outdoor sign by Freda Glow and Molly Rosenblat on Sunday May 15, 2016.   Following this, a...

For Release: Thursday, May 19th, 2016 The Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education Congratulates JWC’s Class of 1991 on their upcoming 25th High School Reunion! Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 19th, 2016 -...

  Israeli reconnaissance has documented thousands of missiles that have been planted & ready to fire from the cover of schools & medical clinics, strategically planted throughout...

        [Editor's note: To reach Jill Atnikov, Chief Cookie Girl, call 204 894 8556 or email her at: jillatnikov@hotmail.ca]     For 17...

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This Friday, May 13, 2016, Christie's New York auctions an extraordinary discovery made by Celia Rabinovitch, a Winnipeg artist, historian, and professor, who uncovered a new work by Marcel...

Glamour, says Katharine Briggs in A Dictionary of Fairies, “generally signified a mesmerism or enchantment cast over the senses, so that things were perceived or not perceived as the enchanter...

      I recently watched a program broadcast from the UK that told of a new initiative, the bringing together of six individuals who were all facing the verdict of terminal illness....

The Jewish community of Canada stands in solidarity with the victims of this unprecedented natural disaster in Canada   The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, Jewish Federations across Canada and...

    [First published in the Times of Israel]   Today as I participated in my local Holocaust Remembrance day service, with the honour of reading names of whole families that...

  (Dr. Medoff, a Holocaust scholar, and Mr. Yoe, a cartoon historian, are the co-authors of the new book, Cartoonists Against the Holocaust.)     In a rare coincidence of the...

    Last month Haider Abu Gosh spoke at the Sturgeon Creek United Church at a talk before some 70 people, about what he believes was an injustice that occurred in the immediate aftermath...

  Presented by the Asper Foundation Performances and the Rady JCC May 24 – June 7, 2016     Apples from the Desert   (Tapoukhim min ha’midbar) Tuesday, May...

          Editor's note: If you start trying out this recipe now, you'll have it perfected in time for Rosh Hashana 2016! 1 lb white fish 1lb pickerel 2 tbsp oil 2...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/28/alan-dershowitz-john-kerrys-meaningless-speech-and-tragic-missed-opportunity.html            

  As community organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for Jewish students on campus, and advocating for the Jewish community, we read your recent statements in the Canadian...

        [Jimmy Bitton is Head of the Jewish History Department at the Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, Kimel Family Education Centre and Vice...

        The CBC documentary channel will premier My Home, on May 10th, at 8 pm.: http://en.cijnews.com/?p=35467