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Marla Aronovitch has joined the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba as its Grants & Distributions Officer. Marla has extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector, including the Jewish community....

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Congregation Etz Chayim invites you to an educational weekend with special guest Marina Nemat Friday, November 1st & Saturday, November 2nd Marina is the author of Prisoner of Tehran and After...

Sarah Morry, registered dietician, talked about organic eating and basic tips for healthy eating at a joint program between National Council of Jewish Women of Canada Winnipeg Section and Rady JCC...

I went to the Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence’s first annual Harvest Dinner and Pie Auction on Wednesday, September 25, where a delicious assortment of pies was up...

Given the positive response to CISA's first community course on the History of Antisemitism, the Institute will be offering a winter course for the community on the Holocaust that will run for...

Editor's note: I will have more to say about the Pew Study and what I think it will mean for Winnipeg's Jewish community in future editorials. For those who have not already read about the...

The Manshield Construction Heart Health Luncheon was an initiative of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences in collaboration with Myles Robinson Memorial Heart Trust and the St....

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Today my Bride got a new frypan. She was as excited as if I had just bought her a beautiful new necklace, a beautiful jewel for her finger, some highly prized article of designer clothing or...

Community leader Earl Barish was recently presented with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in February 2013 at a ceremony in Toronto. Barish was recommended for the Medal by B'nai...

ADS COUNTER RECENT ANTI-ISRAEL POSTERS (Vancouver, Canada, October 9, 2013)—StandWithUs [SWU] is placing posters in ten TransLink stations to counter the misinformation of anti-Israel posters...

The Winnipeg Jewish Review received the following statement from Etz Chayim re: possible merger with Shaarey Zedek: Due to the aging demographic issues that are becoming more significant and common...

[Editor's note: We are doing a series of articles examining the state of synagogues and synagogue life in our community in order to look at issues of community strategic planning and to try to...

Dear Friends,   As many of you may have heard by now the Islamic Regime has opened up a new Iranian consulate office in Montreal.  The office has operating since September 21st, in an...

National Council of Jewish Women of Canada held its Triennial Convention at the Hotel Fort Garry this past weekend October 4-6.  The Winnipeg Section of NCJWC hosted delegates from Toronto,...

Growing up in Winnipeg, I do not recall ever taking much interest in my appearance. I wore anything that came to hand. My history is replete with stories of myself in a state of apparent disrepair,...

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      THIS EDITORIAL is being written in light of Rabbi Green's Yom Kippur Sermon to Integrate the Gray Academy Judaics Program with synagogue life. Let me start from the...

Toys are a universal language. Young or old, all over the world, everyone likes to engage in play. So when Twyla Motkaluk’s daughter was little and came home wanting a dreidel, she wanted to...

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        Patti Cohen Shares Her Experiences From Two Melton Israel Tours 125th Anniversary Israel Melton Tour Monday, January 13 to Thursday, January 23, 2014 Chaired by Ruth...

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[Rabbi Ellis is responding to Rhonda Spivak's Editorial re Rabbi Green's Sermon, Gray Academy and Jewish Holidays which can be found...

The Cyril “Zeke” Marantz “Z’L” Manitoba Jewish Athletes Wall of Honour is currently accepting applications. Pick up your form at the Rady JCC Membership Desk or call...

Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives (Studies in Antisemitism). Edited by Alvin Rosenfeld. Published by Indiana University Press, 2013. pp.576   (Review reprinted courtesy of the Jewish...

The Most Extensive Campaign Ever For Hebrew Literacy  Winnipeg, MB, October 2, 2013 – This fall, members of Winnipeg’s Jewish community will gather to participate in the only...

On Jewish holidays (such as Yom Tovim for Sukkot, Shminei Atzeret, Simchat Torah and Shavuot), Gray Academy is closed.   In his sermon on Yom Kippur, and in a conversation I have...

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[Editor's note: By the end of this column I promise I will tell readers what a " Shiterein" is.)   Over this past summer, when speaking to Marsha Cowan I asked...

One might have hoped that Obama’s calamitous mishandling of recent Middle East crises, climaxing with his disastrous response to the Syrian use of chemical weapons, would have taught him a few...

  In an exclusive sizzling interview with the Winnipeg Jewish Review (which took place during intermission at the Asper Jazz Series concert M'otzei Shabbat), a warm Dr. Earl...

In 1965, my family began to learn the hard way that heart diseases were BAD.  We lost my uncle who had collapsed in his doctor’s office. The next year my mother was immobilized in...

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One of the many nice things about living in Israel is that you get to celebrate two birthdays; one according to the Jewish calendar (aka the ‘religious’/Jewish/Hebrew birthday), and one...

This article first appeared in Il Nuovo Sole, Manitoba’s Italian Community Newspaper.   The ‘therapy’ factor in what is currently being termed ‘Aromatherapy’ comes...

Canadian commentator Rex Murphy delivered a very intelligent, sweeping, witty, and humourous address in which he intertwined biblical and modern Jewish history to formally launch...

As Toronto attorney and documentary producer David Matlow prepared to visit Chicago for the U.S. premiere of his and director Eli Tal-El's film, My Herzl, at the Chicago Festival of Israeli...

[Editor's note: I fundamentally agree with Rabbi Green about the need to inegrate the Gray academy program with the synagogues, and I have done an interview with head of school Rory Paul in this...

Are you thinking of going South for the winter? Many Jewish Winnipeggers like to travel to Mexico (usually on a non-stop junket), but twenty-five year old Winnipegger Jamie Michaels got...

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In his Yom Kippur Day sermon, for which I was present, Rabbi Green of Shaarey Zedek synagogue indicated that, in his view, in order to revive synagogue attendance, the curriculum at...

President Obama’s abysmal failure to provide leadership during the Syrian crisis represents a turning point in the Middle East and has paved the way for President Putin’s Russia to...

“I have always been active donating my time to the world of politics and to causes that I thought were worthwhile,” Sharfe said modestly when interviewed on August 13, 2013.  ...

Rabbi Green, Chazzan Mass, fellow congregants, I would like to take this opportunity tonight to bring you all up to date on the progress of discussions that our Board has been having with the...

[Editor's note: I recently sat down woth MP Joyce Bateman to talk about her recent visit to Israel, which she summarizes in the article below. As Bateman said of her trip, "I was WOWed by...

US servicemen are being photographed holding signs to hide their faces. This new form of Anonymous protest is addressed to their president. “I didn’t join the navy to fight for al-Qaida...