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      If you have read any of the latest issues of the Globe and Mail, watched the national news on TV or heard any recent press releases from CMHC (the federally regulated mortgage...

  As the Jewish year comes to a close, I want to take the opportunity to wish all of you and very happy and healthy New Year. May you all be inscribed in the Book of Good Life.    ...

    I remember as a small child always being fascinated with the story of Jonah and the whale. It has just about everything to stir a child’s imagination. A man by the name of Jonah...

    A little girl pleaded with her mother to light Shabbos candles as she had learned in her Hebrew school class. The mother promised but somehow never got around to it. In desperation,...

  Note from Editor of Winnipeg Jewish Review: [IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER AS A CIVILIAN WORKER FOR 2-3 WEEKS ON AN ISRAELI ARMY SUPPLY BASE< CONTACT SAREL CANADA. Free...

     StandWithUs Canada is profoundly saddened and disappointed by the announcement by the ?United Church of Canada (? UCC ?)? ?encouraging divestment from ?selected companies doing...

1. The Project Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun Synagogue (H-AY) invites artists to submit designs for mehitzah panels for its sanctuary. Established as a school/shule in 1955, H-AY is located in Winnipeg,...

http://www.cjnews.com/canada/ndp-candidates-under-fire-comments-about-israel    

In a recent article in the Vancouver Jewish Independent,Jason Kenney, Canada’s minister of national defence and minister for multiculturalism, says Canada should prioritize...

            Sometimes when I think about our lives, the mysterious and the mundane, it makes my head spin. There are seasons in our lives, but we are impacted, at the...

    Editor's Note: Below is the speech delivered by Prof Bryan Schwartz at the Winnipeg Friends of Israel Rally on the Iran Nuclear Agreement at the Manitoba Legislative Assembly...

Jewish Child and Family Service (JCFS) Announces the Addition of Three New Faces to its Team of Dedicated Professionals.   Winnipeg, July 22, 2015, JCFS is proud to announce the addition of two...

    (Dr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and coeditor of the Online Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust....

    Camp Massad of Manitoba, North American’s only Hebrew immersion residential summer camp, is thrilled to announce that it has reached its one million dollar capital campaign...

    About 30 people attended Chabad's Learning Centre for a very interesting and worthwhile discussion of the book by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, The Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of...

http://www.cjnews.com/canada/calgary-liberal-candidate-withdraws-over-offensive-tweets

http://www.cjnews.com/canada/winnipeggers-rally-oppose-iran-nuclear-deal    

    (Mr. Korn, the former executive editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent and the Miami Jewish Tribune, is chairman of the Philadelphia Religious Zionists.)   Four hundred and...

  As the eyes of the world focus on the dysfunctional US-Iranian accord, yet another dysfunctional accord with the US government has escaped public scrutiny: The new accord reached between the...

  My name is Zac Zenith. I am 43 years old and I need a kidney.    I am happily married and the father of two young daughters, Sloane who is 5 years old and Zelda who is 2...

Remarks prepared for a rally at the Legislature by the Winnipeg Friends of Israel, Winnipeg, Mb. 29 July, 2015     The Iran nuclear agreement, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan...

July 30, 2015 – Winnipeg, Manitoba – Western Economic Diversification Canada   Today, Joyce Bateman, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre, on behalf of the Honourable...

Dr. Michael Boroditsky, is an obstetrician/gynecologist working in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba. He had just been speaking with a colleague who had returned from a Canadian Red Cross...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4098351,00.html

  A few weeks ago I attended a funeral. The decedant had reached the age of eighty-five. His had been an active life, with children, grandchildren, community involvement and business success....

  An improved radar system for the Canadian Army will use cutting edge technology that is part of the successful Israeli Defence Force Iron Dome Air Defence system to defend against incoming...

  President Obama’s fallback defense for the Iran deal is that if the deal fails - be it in a week or in decades – the United States will always have the same military...

  The religious tradition, which I enthusiastically embrace, Judaism, is replete with strict and unwavering dicta governing every aspect of human existence. My Bride and I live in Vancouver,...

http://www.jewishjournal.com/rosnersdomain/item/jew_vs._jew_vs._jew_on_the_iran_deal

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=27071

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/07/israel-isaac-herzog-iran-nuclear-deal/398705/

The movie WORLD TO COME by Daniel Eskin and Trevor Mowchun will be shown at Cinematheque in Winnipeg, May 12 - 15, 2016. The movie was shortlisted at the Sundance Film Festival...

REMEMBERING THE BOMBING OF THE AMIA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE IN BUENOS AIRES   WINNIPEG- Saturday, July 18th, 2015 marks the 21st anniversary of the AMIA Bombing - a terrorist attack of the...

On August 23, 2015, the Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Region (JNF) will be serving up a traditional Kibbutz Style Israeli Breakfast in Winnipeg Beach at Camp Massad...

  Winnipeg Studio Theatre, the company that produced the Fringe Festival hits Altar Boys, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Hersteria are thrilled to be producing the Canadian...

  Annette Roman:"My father is a Jewish Holocaust survivor and my mother is a Lutheran Protestant who was in the Hitler Youth. My performance dramatizes my parents' war experiences,...

    I have never seen the Asper Campus look as magnificent as it did for the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba's 5oth Anniversary Garden party which began with a ceremony to welcome the...

Over 200 people attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Chadar Ochel (Dining Hall) and dedication ceremony for the Richard Tapper Memorial Cabin on June 28, 2015, at...

    Winnipeg Beach's exciting new pop-up gallery, Art*Scape Fine Art/Fine Craft is back by popular demand for a second season this summer! It is bursting...

      They say we all die alone, the human fate. I see it differently. The most fortunate will see it differently.   When I was a youngster, surveying the world around me, the...

Reprinted from the Huffington Post, June 18, 2015 The human rights-interfaith dialogue rhetoric employed by U.S. President Barack Obama on May 22, 2015 at the Adas Israel Synagogue in...

      The Jewish National Fund's Negev Gala in honour of Bob Freedman was a very enjoyable and humourous evening, which left audience members smiling, especially after...

  http://www.cjnews.com/canada/liberal-party-defends-trudeau-statements-iran

http://www.jewishindependent.ca/human-rights-at-fore/  

http://www.timesofisrael.com/berlins-new-jewish-conductor-faces-anti-semitic-german-press/

Reprinted from the Huffington Post, June 17, 2015 Comparing the suffering of human beings is a fruitless enterprise that breeds resentment, hostility, and competition. An old professor of mine at...

For Immediate Release June 26, 2015 Federation Interim CEO The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg is pleased to announce the appointment of Elaine Goldstine to the position of interim CEO of the Jewish...

    I had been a vocal skeptic and critic of Michael Oren.  who most was elected to the Israeli Knesset Parliament. I did not view Michael Oren as a man of principle.    ...

        [Editor's note: Below is the full eulogy delivered by Linda Blankstein at her father Morely's funeral at Shaarey Zedek synagogue on June 19.If desired,...

  At the JCFS Annual meeting on June 8 in the Berney Theatre of the Asper Campus, JCFS President Jeffrey Gilbert emphasized in his report the continued importance of JCFS in providing a wide...