*This article first appeared in the Jerusalem Post and Yisrael Hayom The American presidential elections have created an unprecedented climate of political chaos. Both candidates are reviled...
Are you tired of the Cold Weather... Are you feeling that Cabin Fever... Do you need a Break... CURE: Come to the Grant and Wilton Coffee House 2014 Season...
Following the death of my father in 1976, my mother spent her winters in Los Angeles at which time she volunteered at the Skirball Jewish Museum. Having an Orthodox background, fluency in...
The Jewish National Fund is known for planting trees. Even though the scope of the environmental work the organization does is so broad, Tu Bi'Shevat is a time where the JNF returns to its roots...
The Rady Jewish Community Centre honoured its annual Ken H. Kronson Kehilla Award winners at its Annual General Meeting on December 16, 2013. Rady JCC’s Ken H. Kronson Kehilla Awards...
I am reporting on the results to date of the 2013 Combined Jewish Appeal campaign and steps still to be taken in order to reach our goal. The relative success of the campaign should be of interest...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-comedienne-faces-grandpas-nazi-past/
Six days after its membership voted to implement an academic boycott against Israeli universities, the American Studies Association’s Caucus on Academic and Community...
The Simkin Centre, under the leadership of the current chair Dr. Ted Lyons, is now a beneficiary of the Jewish Federation, David Gisser, Chair of the Federation’s Planning...
Alan Dershowitz has said that Israel should ignore international law when deciding how to deal with Iran. (Readers can see him say this in the video below). International law is “a...
The Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem completed in 1904 is 420 meters away from the David Citadel hotel , where Prime Minister Harper's delegation stayed during his hitoric...
[Editor's note: On April 15 2009 this piece I wrote on Honourable Justice Rosalie Abella was first published as a feature story in the Jerusalem...
I rubbed my eyes in disbelief this week when I read an article prominently featured on Haaretz website entitled “The Warsaw Ghetto Myth”. The story asserts that the Warsaw Ghetto...
I am going to set forth a proposal for a comprehensive study to be done by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg with the financial support of the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba for a strategic plan for...
The Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) has just completed its first community course entitled The History of Antisemitism. Thirty-two students participated over nine classes and...
Mohammad Reza Pourshajari (53) also known as Siamak Mehr is an Iranian blogger and political prisoner who is currently serving a 4 year prison sentence for “political crimes” including...
Former ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has asked the US Congress to consider withholding government funding for academic institutions that participate in the Boycott, Divestment...
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/A-Fresh-Perspective-Harper-and-Israel-335538
[Editor's note: Thank you to Rosalie Lazar for her information about my great grandfather David Spivak. I had never known he had immigrated to Johannesburg, and neither did my father...
[Originally published in Ha'aretz Dec 17, 2013] The American Studies Association has just issued its first ever call for an academic boycott. No, it wasn’t...
[Editor's note: This was just recently published on the Ynet website] I often hear my grandfather, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, say that we are currently living in the greatest time...
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Canada-calls-for-dismissal-of-Richard-Falk-for-accusing-Israel-of-genocidal-intentions-335446
Editor's note: The video is very informative for those interested in thiis subject. Recommended
"Islam is everything or it is nothing" Ayatollah Khomeini, 1943 2015 Israel election: united Arab parties third largest in Knesset. Note the contrast. Israel is...
Through donations from family, friends, and colleagues, an endowment fund has been established at the University of Manitoba in memory of Rabbi Dr. Moshe Stern. The Manitoba Scholarship and Bursary...
I came to the Saturday night Tarbut concert not as a Barbra Streisand fan, but a Heitha Forsyth fan. All my expectations were met – Forsyth put on a beautiful show. The concert featured a...
We are getting a little long in the tooth, and I am not talking about receding gums embellishing my brilliant smile. I am writing about the rushing winds of time about my ears, the unravelling...
Rabbi Michael Goldstein’s Assimilation: Fight it? Accept it? rebutting Gabriel Roth’s piece, American Jews Are Secular, Intermarried, and Assimilated is found on the...
Vintage cars and a Jewish community that figured out a way to preserve its synagogues I have been looking back at photos I took while in Cuba in 2009, when I would get up early at...
Ottawa– In response to the United Church of Canada’s boycott of Israeli companies, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) has launched a campaign as part of its ongoing...
Perhaps this question is better put by asking is Conservative Judaism that our parents and grandparents knew vanishing, is that to be celebrated or mourned and if the latter, can and...
Ron Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), called upon Hillary Clinton to present the organization’s second annual Theodor Herzl Award to Marion and Elie Wiesel last month at...
Corne Jews were made to become grain speculators in Germany and blamed for rising food prices. The Antisemitic Corne Jew medal was first issued in Germany in 1694 and issued the last time in 1923...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that Israel will always be able to count on Canada for support, announcing plans to visit the Jewish state at the beginning of next year....
A new student group at Gray Academy has won a major human rights award. The Academy’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) will be presented with the Sybil Shack Human Rights Youth Award on December...
This November, southern Israel marks one year since the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense in the Gaza Strip. It has been the quietest year in quite awhile, with “only” 79 rockets...
I started my photography career in the photojournalism industry working my way up from the University of Manitoba’s student newspaper, The Manitoban, to being published in numerous...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-best-way-to-hook-a-jewish-family-is-through-its-tots/ <div class="pG"...
Most of the years I’ve known Patti Cohen (we’re not related), she has been traveling back and forth to the Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago, racking up...
[from http://www.imra.org.il] It is not clear to me why the White House and State Department websites have yet to post the actual 1,498 word English language text of the "Joint Action...
On Monday, November 18th, I attended the Rady JCC's Tarbut Festival to see the showing of the Israeli film "Matchmaker," which I found to be interesting, thoughtful and enjoyable....
The PEW report has commentators around the world sounding alarm bells. Some of the most learned and prestigious leaders and thinkers in the Jewish world are foretelling the waning of non-Orthodox...
This past, June I attended Shimon Peres's President's Conference in Jerusalem, which took place at Binyanei Hauma--the international conference centre in Jerusalem, located near the entrance...
David Hirsch knows how to begin a speech. He quoted a great statesman who once said, “I was asked to speak, and you are stuck in the audience. Hopefully we will finish at the same...
(Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of 16 books about Jewish history.) Melania Trump, the...
After 13 years of exemplary service as the Director of Spiritual Care at The Saul & Claribel Simkin Centre, Rabbi Dr. Neal Rose has announced his retirement. His last official day at the Centre...
http://www.jpost.com/International/iNew-York-Timesi-apologizes-for-poor-choice-on-Atias-photo-332495
As they wrap up the final pieces of the High Holiday Campaign and work on various arrangements for next year's Negev Gala honouring Joseph Wilder, Q.C., the JNF Manitoba/Saskatchewan staff is...
Hirsch By Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson November 28 - December 14 2013 Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre “Gut-wrenching and emotionally charged… a tour-de-force” – Beat...
