The University of Manitoba Students Union (UMSU) has become the first in North America to vote to ban Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) on campus and strip the group Students Against Israel Apartheid...
Well known realtor David Thompson, who served in the Israel Defense Forces from October 1980 to October 1983 was the Master of Ceremonies for the Yom Hazikaron Memorial Service held in the Berney...
As Israel prepared to celebrate its 60th anniversary, I joined a handful of Jewish friends living for a year in East Jerusalem on Sala-a-Din Street. On the streets in downtown East Jerusalem,...
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Winnipeg Mission to Israel October 21 - 31, 2013 Chairs: Faye and Joel Lazer Guide: Avi Ben Hur Hostess: Tali Bernstein Draft (subject to changes) per Jan 6 Monday October 21...
[This article was first published on the website of Middle East Matrix http://mideastmatrix.wordpress.com/author/saspress/. Former Winnipeger, Brent E. Sasley is Assistant...
Get ready to shower your mother with love on Sunday May, 12, 2013. Often celebrated with brunch, greeting cards and flowers, Mother's Day in North America is traditionally meant to give moms the day...
Almost a week after Pesach has finished, I find that I’m still exhausted. I find that I’m still upset at the fact that most of the holiday was spent in the kitchen. I find that I’m...
Remembering Through Song and Story: Tales and Melodies of the Holocaust Saturday, April 13 7:30 pm Temple Shalom Jane Enkin tells stories and sings heartbreaking, seldom-heard...
Eli Herscovitch Remembers A Man Who Inspired Him - The story of Solomon Ary From Bialystock, Poland, Whose Entire Family Was Burned in a Synagogue by the Nazis During...
Steven Schipper never had the chance to experience the absolute joy and magic of being a camper or counsellor at Camp Massad of Manitoba. But his daughter Susan did, spending many incomparable and...
This responds to the Editor's inviting comments regarding David B. Harris’ article Justin Trudeau's Islamist Revival and Elliot Leven’s response, Trudeau was right to speak at...
I sat through the annual “UNTO EVERY PERSON THERE IS A NAME” Holocaust Remembrance program put on by B’nai Brith’s League For Human Rights at the Manitoba Legislative...
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/national/Canada+concerned+about+Saudi+Arabia+nuclear+intentions/7884387/story.html
See the video of high-profile lawyer Robert Tapper talking aobut the fact that he is a boxing judge. He is being interviewed by Ron Pollock, the brother of Natalie Pollock....
Ten women were arrested recently at the Kotel, the Western Wall. These Jewish women were arrested because they were praying as a group. Many outside Israel might not be aware that not only is the...
Recently Charlotte van den Berg, a 23-year-old university student discovered documents bundled with an elastic band in the archive section of one of the city of Amsterdam's departments while...
http://www.qassam.ps/news-6861-amas_refuses_settlement_of_Palestinian_refugees_in_Canada.html Al Qassam website - Hamas movement renewed its affirmation that the right of return for Palestinian...
Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt (who will be giving CISA's 2013 Shindleman Lecture in Winnipeg on April 22) was one of a group of influential American Jews who signed a letter to Benjamin...
Frank Dimant, CEO of B'nai Brith Canada, Publisher of The Jewish Tribune, and Chair of Modern Israel studies at Canada Christian College has written a blog in the...
We Remember our Past. We Trust in the Future. Winnipeg. April 4, 2013. Almost 70 years have passed since the horrific human toll of the Holocaust was discovered. Winnipeg’s Holocaust Awareness...
[Editor's note: Readers may remember that Winnipeg's Marshall Carroll and three other Canadians vied for the title of Canada’s Smartest Person on a two hour special that aired on...
The Winnipeg Jewish Review has learned that on Wednesday April 4, 2013 the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg's Board voted unanimously to provide in principal the financial funding...
[This article was written by Joel Lazer, CA, CIRP of Lazer Grant LLP Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, www.http://www.lazergrant.ca/index.cfm . Joel will be leading a...
The Camp Massad Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that Danial Sprintz, Camp Massad of Manitoba’s Executive Director, has been selected to participate in the Foundation for Jewish...
http://www.shalomlife.com/news/19041/reports-indicate-that-obama-had-fling-with-miss-israel/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/canadian-exhibit-recalls-jewish-refugees-imprisoned-with-nazis/
Immigration has been a focus of the media, politicians and voters in recent years, in Europe, in the recent elections in the United States, but also here in Canada. I’ve always been interested...
Thank you to Winnipeg for donating an ambulance that will read “Dedicated to the People of Israel from your Canadian Friends in Winnipeg, Manitoba.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/emotions-run-high-over-canadian-bid-for-israeli-company/
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/03/23/obama-compares-israeli-palestinian-relations-to-canada-us
Jewish, Arab and Druze children and two coaches from Israel came to Winnipeg from March 12-19, 2013 to break down barriers by being immersed in Canadian hockey. For the seventeen students, ranging...
Daniel Pipes wrote an article in the Washington Times, which outlined the most important thing that Obama said in his trip to Israel--which is that Palestinians must recognize that...
Deborah Lipstadt will be delivering CISA's 2013 Shindleman Family Lecture on Monday, April 22, 2013 at 7:30 pm in the Provencher Ballroom at the Hotel Fort Garry. Admission is by donation and...
You are invited to attend "The Heart of the Matter" (no charge) on Wednesday April 10, Fort Garry Hotel , Concert Hall 222 ...
Jerusalem - March 21, 2013 - 1.2 million people are killed each year in car accidents around the world' and 20-50 million sustain heavy injuries. In America alone 33,000 people die each year...
B’nai Brith on Campus – Winnipeg sponsors Middle East Week Event by Rhonda J. Prepes B'nai Brith on Campus – Winnipeg sponsored a presentation by Dr. Catherine Chatterley, founding...
Funds raised by the Jewish National Fund of Canada Manitoba/Saskatchewan Region’s (JNF) annual fundraiser, the Negev Gala,...
Gayle Waxman, Executive Director of the Rady Jewish Community Centre is pleased to announce that Tamar Barr has been promoted to Assistant Executive Director at the Rady JCC. Tamar has been employed...
On March 10, 2013, Three Jewish women - Miriam Bronstein, Sandi Malamud, and Harriet Zimmer launched Winnipeg Soup Sisters in support of Osborne House. Nearly 300 servings of delicious soup were...
The following is an email the Editor received on February 23, 2013 from the email address Gordon Warren < bringkatztojustice@gmail.com. The email was entitled "The Katz...
Editor's note: This first appeared in on the Middle East Matrix website http://mideastmatrix.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/israels-new-defense-minister-aint-ehud-barak/] With the...
WINNIPEG: As the first Canadian city to host this international meeting, Winnipeg welcomes the world at the 21st World Conference of GLBT Jews, July 5 – 7, 2013, at the Winnipeg...
Bernstein’s Deli is pleased to announce to our valued customers and to the public that there is a new addition to our management team. It is with great excitement that owner Marla...
Ivan berkowitz recently received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from NDP MP Pat Martin Berkowitz was born and educated in Winnipeg, where he and his ex-wife Sheri...
Tzafi Weinberg, an Israeli who moved to Winnipeg years ago, gave a session at Limmud on art therapy. Art therapy for children is a way of approaching the inner world of a child, and combines art and...
[ Editor's note:Rabbi Ellis wrote this article below after learning of the comments of Rabbi Avrohom Altein's of chabad-Lubavitch as reported in the Canadian Press, which are...
I had an unusual experience this past trip to Israel. I met a Palestinian Arab who is an Israeli who asked me if I or anyone I knew would be interested in buying photos taken in the...
Winnipeg, MB– John Orlikow, Councillor for River Heights - Fort Garry is throwing his support behind Winnipeg’s bid to host the 2017 Canada Games,...
