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Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) members and friends visit the Jewish Homeland on a 10-day Mission: Learn, Love, Live Israel the CHW Way!
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) is pleased to announce their upcoming Mission to Israel, April 20 to 30, 2015, that will bring CHW members and friends from Canada...
Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) 2015 Annual Campaign
Montreal,March 26, 2015 – CANADIAN HADASSAH-WIZO (CHW) is pleased to announce that the 2015 Annual Campaign, Big Needs, Caring Hearts, is underway in support of CHW...
Judges are Needed for Gary Academy Junior National Debating Championships on Friday May 8th, 2015-Gray Academy is co-hosting Annual Junior National Debating Championships
Gray Academy is co-hosting the annual Canadian Junior National Debating Championships on Friday May 8th, 2015. This event will provide an opportunity for all of our students to...
CJPAC Announces Opening of New Prairie Region Office-Faith Kaplan has been hired as Director, Prairie Region
Winnipeg – March 31, 2015 CJPAC (Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee) is pleased to announce that Faith Kaplan has been hired as Director, Prairie Region. CJPAC is a national,...
WJR PARTICIPATES IN TELECONFERENCE WITH MINISTER OF DEFENSE JASON KENNEY ON CANADA’S EXTENSION OF MISSION AGAINST ISIL- ISIL IS THREAT TO MIDDLE EAST STABILITY–TRUDEAU RESPONDS TO WJR INQUIRY RE ISIL-OPPOSES EXPANSION OF MISSION
WJR PARTICIPATES IN TELECONFERENCE WITH MINISTER OF DEFENSE JASON KENNY ON CANADA'S EXTENSION OF MISSION AGAINST ISIL- THIS...
Friends for Israel and Jewish Federation put on program about Yazidi refugees-The Invisible victims of ISIL
The Winnipeg Friends of Israel (winnipegfriendsofisrael.com)and the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg hosted an evening about Yazidi refugees on March 24, 2015. The event was well-attended...
Tim Boxer: Lincoln Championed Jews As Well As Blacks
The first instance of affirmative action in American Jewish history occurred when Abe Lincoln selected a New York Jew named Chemie Levy to a military position because, the...
JANE ENKIN’S REVIEW OF LIMMUD- SESSIONS WITH PROF IRA ROBINSON, RABBI GREEN, AVI DOLGIN, AND BEV ARONOVITCH AND MIRIAM BRONSTEIN
The atmosphere at Winnipeg's Limmud 2015 was typically warm and energetic – buzzing in the hallways, conversations at the ample snack table, consultations about...
MAX ROYTENBERG: DO THEY STILL REMEMBER YOUR NAME
I am not a psychologist, much less a psychoanalyst. But, like most of you, I cannot help speculating about the way people around me behave. Of particular interest to me are the...
NCJW WINNIPEG SECTION PUTS ON SUCESSFUL PROGRAM TO INCREASE AWARENESS RE: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMEN-NCJW YOUNG WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL GROUP FORMED
Twenty six year old Yelena Maleyev who emigrated here from Israel in 1997 when she was nine years old, is one of the new Board members of the Winnipeg section of the...
6TH ANNUAL HAROLD BUCHWALD HEART HEALTH LUNCHEON MAY 4, 2015
AN INITIATIVE OF THE ...
LIMMUD FESTIVAL OF JEWISH LEARNING RETURNS FOR ITS FIFTH YEAR
Saturday March 14 & Sunday March 15, 2015 Asper Jewish Community Campus | 123 Doncaster | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada The festival of Limmud, or “learning” in...
Politicizing Scholarship to Question Israel’s Existence
Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s quip that “some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals,” faculty at the University of Southampton in...
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM STUDENTS PUT SMILES ON FACES OF HADASSAH HOSPITAL PATIENTS
An amazing transformation came over the Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus the very minute that 50 eleventh-graders from Boys Town Jerusalem came bearing five guitars, Purim costumes and bags of holiday...
LIMMUD THROUGH THE EYES OF OUR WJR YOUTH CORRESPONDENT NATHAN KIRSHNER
This year was my first year that I went to Limmud put on by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg. Now you may ask what is Limmud? Limmud is a volunteer run festival...
Max Roytenberg: Running in the Human Race
I am still running in this race, as are all of us who struggle to stay alive. To those of us who us who are older, it seems to take much of our strength to stay in...
David Matas: Legal bases for the rights of Jewish refugees
(Remarks for a presentation at an event hosted by the Embassy of Israel 8 December, 2014, Jacob Ballas Centre, Singapore) I am going to talk about the legal basis of rights for...
Rabbi Schwarz’s Recipe for Attracting Next Generation Jews: Serious Jewish Learning, Social Activism, Kehilla and Kedusha- Fulfilling Jewish Soul (Jewish environmentalism, Food Justice)
In a thought provoking sweeping lecture which gave a broad overview of trends in the Jewish world, Rabbi Sid Schwarz opened the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg's Limmud...
From the Canadian Jewish News: Jewish groups slam Trudeau for ‘none is too many’ remarks
http://www.cjnews.com/canada/jewish-groups-slam-trudeau-none-too-many-remarks STATEMENT FROM B'NAI BRITH CANADA: March 10, 2015, TORONTO — Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's...
Kelvin High School Student Hanna Lank receives $ 100,000.00 Loran Scholarship
Hannah Lank was recently awarded the prestigious 2015 Loran Scholarship. Every year, the Loran Scholars Foundation invests in exceptional young Canadians who demonstrate character,...
EDITOR’S REPORT FROM HEBRON: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH AN ARMED JOURNALIST, AN EXILED JORDANIAN AND THE MUKTARS
In 2014, I traveled to the Hebron area twice, a place I had not visited since 1982, to meet an investigative journalist with a security background who carries a weapon legally, whom I...
Brain Matters: A Panel discussion about Brain Research Put on by CABGU March 29th 3:00 pm at Shaarey Zedek
Please join us Sunday, March 29th 3:00 pm at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue. Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University (CABGU) Presents: Brain Matters: A Panel discussion...
Israeli Attorney Nissim Sharify: The Irrelevance of International Law in the Face of the Phenomenon of Radical Islam
Over the past several years, we have been witness to a global phenomenon whereby harming peaceful and unarmed citizens has become legitimate in the eyes of states or territorial...
Passover Assistance: Ma’ot Chitim
“Let all who are hungry, come and eat….” (Passover Haggadah) Ma’ot Chitim, defined as "Wheat Money", is a mitzvah discussed in the...
Max roytenberg: The Song In the Wine
Life has such magic and mystery, my mind reels. I keep straining my neck to see over the current bump in the road just to see what the future will bring. Don’t we...
Max Roytenberg: Racing with the Moon
It is almost twenty years since I left regular job employment behind, left behind the cut and thrust of daily appearance at the jobsite. Dressing appropriately, behaving appropriately,...
‘Chickenshit’ Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg in Dramatic Reversal: Netanyahu’s Case ‘Credible’
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/03/01/chickenshit-columnist-jeffrey-goldberg-in-dramatic-reversal-netanyahus-case-credible/
David Matas: Antisemitism and anti-Zionism of the regime of the mullahs in Iran
(A submission to the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights 26 February, 2015, Ottawa) When the subject matter is international human rights violations and...
David Matas : Hatred is not blasphemy- Are we consistent when we say that Charlie Hebdo should be free to satirize Islam but that Dieudonné M’bala M’bala should be prohibited from promoting anti-Semitism ?
[This article was first published in the Canadian Jewish News under the title Hatred is Not Blasphemy.] Are we consistent when we say that Charlie Hebdo should be free to...
Message from the CEO of Jewish Federation of Winnipeg Adam Bronstone March 18, 2015
Dear Friends, This year’s annual campaign has focused on increasing donorship to the Combined Jewish Appeal (CJA). As a community, we are proud to have successfully added 274 new donors...
The Chai Anniversary of the Asper Campus: How Marjorie Blankstein, Sheldon Berney and Bob Freedman Brought The Campus to Life, How it Acquired the Asper Name, and How Lloyd Axworthy Proved to be an Instrumental Figure
Eighteen years ago, in 1997, the Asper Jewish Community Campus opened its doors, changing the landscape of Winnipeg's Jewish community. On this "Chai Anniversary" of the...
Editor’s Report: I’ll be in the Pew. Will You? One of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Most Influential Rabbis will lead Out of Box Service at Shaarey Zedek?
I intend on going to Shaarey Zedek Synagogue on Shabbat morning March 14 at 10:30 (sharp) to experience the "Out of the Box" service that will be led by Rabbi Sid...
DR. HASKEL GREENFIELD NAMED A DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR BY UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
Dr. Haskel Greenfield, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Manitoba, has just been recognized as one of the University’s “Distinguished...
Tim Boxer: Dr. Spock, Z’L: Live Long And Prosper
In 1986 Leonard Nimoy interrupted an extremely hectic day of post-production of the latest Trekkie epic, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” to welcome me to the Paramount lot in Los...
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GALA “PUTTIN ON THE GLITZ” – APRIL 23, 2015
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra invites you to attend one of the most anticipated Galas of the year – Puttin’ on the Glitz – on April 23,...
REFLECTIONS ON THE CHAI ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASPER JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS: HOW WE ALMOST ENDED UP ON WAVERLEY AND WILKES, AND WHY NO SYNAGOGUE LOCATED ON CAMPUS
This year, 2015, is the 18th "Chai" anniversary of the Asper Jewish community Campus which opened its doors in 1997 forever changing the landscape of...
The Arab Jewish Dialogue and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on The issue of Reprinting Charlie Hebdo Cartoons of Mohammed
On January 25, 2015 the Winnipeg Jewish Review asked Howard Morry and Ab Freig co-chairs of the Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) what the AJD's position was on...
Editor Recommends Reading Important Editorial From David Horowitz in Times of Israel on Netanyahu, Obama and Iran
http://www.timesofisrael.com/now-we-know-who-to-believe-on-iran/
Trudeau Tells WJR He’s “Cautiously Optimistic” About Iran Deal While Kenney Says Harper Govt’s View is “One of Pessimism More Than Optimism
Penny Jones Square: Repairing the World: A Reflection on Limmud’s Festival of Jewish Learning-Sessions with Benji Aziza, David Greaves, Avi Dolgin and Rabbi Sid Shwarz
Repairing the World: A Reflection on Limmud Winnipeg’s 2015 Festival of Jewish Learning We live by the conviction that acts of...
TRUDEAU SAYS LIBERALS WOULD VOTE AGAINST UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE AT UN AS HAS HARPER GOVT- BATEMAN RESPONSE- EMAIL FOLLOW UP QUESTION TO TRUDEAU PRESS SECRETARY RE: PALESTINIANS JOINING ICC AND TREATIES UNANSWERED
Under the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper Canada voted at the UN against the unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood recognition along with Israel, the United...
DR. CATHERINE CHATTERLEY–THE TRUTH ABOUT AUSCHWITZ
Reprinted from The Huffington Post The Antisemitism Institute I direct in Canada received several inquiries about the accuracy of an article published under the provocative...
Solidarity Mission – Come Home to Israel with JNF
The Jewish National Fund is excited to announce a “Solidarity Mission to Israel,” taking place from Tuesday, May 12 – Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Bringing together people from...
Corey Shefman: To protect free expression, Strengthen Hate Speech Legislation
You might want to think twice before swearing that “you’ll defend to the death” a person’s right to say something you disagree with. That saying, a...
CJA’s Women’s Philanthropy Is Hot and Getting Hotter: Narvey and Jacobsohn tell WJR they have Exceeded Their Goal
Mira Narvey and Daniela Jacobsohn, this year's Co-chairs for the Combined Jewish Appeal's Women's Philanthropy are excited that at this point they have raised $1,447,407.00...
Richard Cravatts: Academic Progressivism Descends into Moral Madness
In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the...
Why Something Instead of Nothing?
Today was a gorgeously sunny day in Arizona. I spent some of it sunning myself in my chair in front of our unit. The feel of the sun's rays on my face and arms, absolutely...
ANNUAL JNF TU BI’SHEVAT TELETHON RAISES OVER $18,000
Jewish National Fund Manitoba/Saskatchewan held its annual Tu Bi’Shevat Telethon on Sunday, February 8, and had raised over $18,000 as of press time. Two dozen...
Max Roytenberg: Time for Life as a Party
I don't know about you, but I'm happy to be alive. That's not a surprising statement for most people. It's not remarkable. Why bother saying it? I am a...
