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  JCFS has established a new speaker series called "Can We Talk About...." As part of the important mandate of JCFS in supporting individuals and families who are dealing with...

ADULT LEARNING FOR WONDERING JEWS Can a 4,000 year-old text speak to a 21st century world? Why do I have more questions than answers? If people are working so hard to repair the world, why is it...

(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, www.WymanInstitute.org)     Much has been written about America's failure to bomb...

    It wasn’t pure chance that former Israeli President Shimon Peres was seated next to Google chairman Eric Schmidt. There they were, at an ADL dinner where national chairman...

Call for Research Participants in Winnipeg, MB: “Family Caregiver Navigation through Organizational Systems and Policies”   Are you currently providing care to a family member who...

  Gray Academy was featured both locally and nationally on radio (CJOB), television (CTV  & Sun TV Toronto), in the newspaper (Winnipeg Free Press) and on-line (Huffington Post) as a...

Taz Stuart’s Top Priorities for your River Heights – Fort Garry Ward include: To represent and proudly make the daily services that the City of Winnipeg residents expect to receive for...

  Sunday October 19, 2014, 3 p.m. Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, 561 Wellington Cres, Wpg MB   The Winnipeg Singers has long been regarded as one of Canada's finest choral...

    [Editor's note: Priel Lisak, is a Grant Park High School student and participant of the Asper Foundation Human Rights & Holocaust Program, 2013-2014]     Being a...

SARAH SOMMER CHAI FOLK ENSEMBLE   DANCE. MUSIC.  LIFE.   AUDITIONS   On Sunday, October 5, 2014   Seeking Dancers, Singers, and Musicians   (guitar, bass, keys, melody...

      Under the shadow of the recent Operation Protective Edge conflict, Boys Town Jerusalem high school students visited the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in preparation for the...

THE HISTORY OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS IN CANADA INSPIRES       WORLD PREMIERE AT CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET       The Indian Residential School system...

                Michel Aziza, who co-chaired  with Mel Lazareck the recent Jewish Federation of Winnipeg's Solidarity Mission to Israel  between...

        The Torah explains that on Yom Kippur the High Priest would set aside two goats. One would be sacrificed to G-d while the other, after the High priest confessed all the...

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/09/15/nathan-jacobson-businessman-with-conservative-ties-succeeds-in-withdrawing-guilty-plea/  

      Can you see through all the static/chaff clouding the view of your life to get a clear picture of where you are, where you have been, and most important, where you want to go?...

      PROCEEDS FROM THIS YEAR’S HIGH HOLIDAY APPEAL WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARDS       BUILDING BOMB SHELTERS FOR COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL     KKL-JNF...

        Ticket sales approach 90% of target       On Monday, October 27, over 800 people will gather at the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg to celebrate the 50th...

                Joe Oliver, Canada's finance Minister was interviewed by the Winnipeg Jewish Review at Folklorama's Shalom Square Israel Pavilion,...

All Grade 9 Jewish students NOT enrolled in the Gray Academy of Jewish Education, together with their parents, are invited to attend a General Information Meeting on The Asper Foundation Human...

    Sean Penn, the actor acclaimed by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach as a hero for providing 60,000 people with housing after the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010, was honored by the rabbi for...

      Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is pleased to announce the interim team of Kayla Gordon, artistic director, Karla Berbrayer, marketing and development, and Tracy Goltsman, production...

  It is cloudy and cooler today in our “promised land” western outpost at ocean’s edge. It has actually rained. Not only that; it rained during the day, almost the whole day....

  Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s wry observation that some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could have thought of them, an open letter by “teaching assistants,...

    This past June in order to comply with Canada's new anti-spam law,  the Winnipeg Jewish Review sent out e-blasts asking subscribers to provide written consent to continue...

      Winnipeg business person and community philanthropist, Marty Morantz, has announced that he will seek election in the Charleswood-Tuxedo seat for Winnipeg City Council.  ...

      Ah the BRAIN- such a broad terrain and tricky to navigate through. So much so, in fact, that Dystonia often doesn’t even show up on its map. Getting to the dystonia...

                On August 18th this summer I went to B'nai Brith Camp to see the Advanced Camp [AC] Homecoming ceremony.       My son Dov,...

[Delivered May 21, 2014]   Rabbis, Kavod award recipients and friends,   I want to thank the community and the Jewish Federation for this honor.  The Sol Kanee award is a major...

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    Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making...

High Holy Days 5775  Congregation Etz Chayim 123 Matheson Avenue East     Schedule of Rosh Hashanah and   Yom Kippur Services   Selichot Service,  Saturday,...

    Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi recently died in Boulder, CO, at the age of 89. He spent the last half of his life in the U.S. as a revered scholar, teacher and spiritual...

               Lauren Bacall, a leading lady of Hollywood’s golden age died on August 12 at 89 in her home in New York. Although she...

    Winnipeg. August 18, 2014.  A varied group of 19 from all walks of life has come together to demonstrate solidarity for Israel at this time of great stress during what we hope...

  [Editor's note: Below are statements by Joyce Bateman, Conservative Member of Parliament in Winnipeg South -Centre and by Jim Carr, Liberal Candidate in that riding.]...

  I arrived in Israel on Sunday. With about an hour to go in the Air Canada flight to Tel Aviv, the stewardess announced over the public address system that we would be entering Israeli air...

{Editor's note: I agree with David Horowitz's editorial below entirely]       http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-livid-with-israel-hamas-cant-believe-its-luck/

        Even as he entered his hundredth year, Irwin Corey remains an irreconcilable opponent of a Jewish state. Furthermore he doesn’t want you to call him a Jew. He says...

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CISA Online Academy CISA has launched its new online academy with a course on The Holocaust, 1933-1945. The course examines the Holocaust within the context of modern German history and as a...

Remarks delivered at a commemorative ceremony, 18 July, 2014, Asper Jewish Community Centre,...

      How can we put an end to the deaths and injuries of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza?  Outsiders may think that there is not much to be done, that those on the...

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  In between dashing in and out of my protected room in my apartment this past month, I have had time to reflect on how  inspiring it is  to see how this country really comes...

  Without a doubt, the most powerful moment on Rosh Hashanah (maybe even the entire year) is the sounding of the Shofar. After the blasting of the Shofar we recite the “Hayom Harat...

      Dear Members of Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD),   We are very concerned, as we know you are, with the continuation of the war between Israel and Hamas, which has resulted in...

I have been thinking a lot about my friend Danny while I have been in Israel during Operation Protective Edge. Danny lives in a small town in New Jersey but his heart is here in Israel. He remembers...

As a long term volunteer, almost full-time since 2009, with the Bridges for Peace Food Distribution Centre, the current conflict with Gaza is not the first time we have had to...