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  [Editor's note: On a personal note I want to tell readers that after interviewing Ian for a lengthy amount of time, I found him to be a real wealth of information on the topic of fighting...

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middle-east/2013/02/10/rabbi-david-hartman-dies/R1jOLAwGYZojubCA0GFDPJ/story.html People who encountered Rabbi David Hartman  often came away with a seminal...

About 60 students attended the second annual Western Canada Hillel Conference entitled "Shabbat Shabang" held in Winnipeg on January 25-27, 2013 at the Asper Jewish Community...

Why Is Obama Going to Israel? Posted on February 6, 2013 by Brent Sasley 1 Yesterday I tweeted that I was pre-empting speculation and that no, Obama’s coming trip to Israel wasn’t about...

Co-chairs Bryan Klein, Murray Palay and Dr. Brian Postl are pleased to announce that the Winnipeg Chapter of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University will be honouring long-time volunteer Dr....

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/11/ali-zentner-weight-loss_n_2456922.html

I’ve always dibbled and dabbled in Shabbat. As a kid I remember barreling through my grandparents’  apartment door and arriving just in time to see my Grandma toss a sheer navy blue...

Winnipeg, MB – February is Heart Health month and the Rady Jewish Community Centre is bringing awareness to the importance of heart health.  According to the Heart and...

  [*Editor's note:  Hart Piekoff passed away recently at the age of 69 and to honour his memory the  Winnipeg Jewish Review is re-running this article he wrote]  The Jewish...

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The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s Leave More Than Memories endowment fund at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba was created to enable donors to support the Combined Jewish Appeal annual...

UN Watch issued the following comment on the UN Human Rights Council’s latest report on alleged Israeli violations:   UN Watch is astonished by the commission’s failure to...

Entrepreneur Matthew Ostrove is the new President of the recently established Jewish chapter of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. A Jewish chapter was attempted once before in October 2008 by Aaron...

The Rady JCC is implementing a Jewish ethics program at the Kaufman Child Care Centre with sponsorship from Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The Sheva program: An Ethical Start, was...

Sondheimfest continues through February 3, 2013 masterplaywrightfest.com Winnipeg Jewish Theatre presents Angels In America: Perestroika May 1-12, 2013 wjt.ca The National Theatre of the World...

The Rady JCC is pleased to announce that the Israel Pavilion-Shalom Square will be participating in Winnipeg’s multi-cultural celebration Folklorama from Sunday, August 11 to Saturday, August...

So, my next birthday takes me to seventy-nine. Almost eighty. To me that is astounding. My Dad died peacefully (I hope) in his sleep at the age of sixty-seven. That’s all that I expected,...

Some Twitter users in France have recently been posting vile anti-Semitic comments, but it will not be easy to stop them. For those of you who do not know what Twitter is, this is the most shallow...

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2013, an event called “Flickers of Light” was held to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Freeman...

We all know about how the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. But do we actually know what sank the Titanic? In April of 2008, the New York Times...

This afternoon, after more than a year of strategic social media planning, a number of Gray Academy of Jewish Education’s high school students and staff will come together at 12:45pm in the...

The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will present Living with Integrity: Navigating Everyday Ethical Dilemmas, the institute’s new six-session Winter 2013 course, beginning January 29, 2013....

  The Canadian Associates of Ben – GurionUniversity of the Negev (CABGU) is proud to welcome Samantha Loxton as its Executive Director for the Manitoba Regional office.   Samantha...

Winnipegger Wendy Erlanger's book “More Than Soup” has exceeded expectations. Erlanger wrote the book filled with soup recipes with the purpose of donating the proceeds to Cancer Care...

What Happens When Hockey and Philanthropy Collide? When Danny Spodek, a self-confessed hockey fiend and die hard Leafs fan, made aliyah with his family, where they would live was a serious...

  The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s Leave More Than Memories endowment fund at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba was created for the sole purpose of enabling donors to continue...

Director Jonathan Gruber enlightened the audience following the Winnipeg premiere of his movie “Follow Me - the Yoni Netanyahu Story” on January 13th, 2013 presented by the Canadian...

  [Editor's note: Rabbi Pinsker's recommendations  re: Shabbat and the Campus are near the end of this article] If you could pray for only one thing, let it be for an idea....

One Student’s Illiteracy-Fighting Charity to Benefit from Today’s Fundraising Initiative at Gray Academy Winnipeg, MB – Today, 150 high school students from Gray Academy of Jewish...

[Editor's note: Given that the University of Manitoba now has a President that has openly supported Israel Apartheid Week, our Hillel group and community leadership ought to be aware...

Israel is certainly different from Canada. Last week, in Jerusalem, I attended the Women in Green Conference entitled ‘Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria’. In...

The Rady JCC is pleased to announce a new initiative especially designed for students in grades 7 and 8. bbyo Connect will offer teens a variety of experiences to help bridge the gap between...

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/arts-and-culture/2013/01/15/festival-celebrates-15th-anniversary

  [Editor's note:  Elliot Leven's piece below is a response to David Matas's article "Settlements and Peace." Matas's article is reprinted in full at the end of Leven's...

For the first time ever the University of Manitoba is offering a unique course “Holodomor and Holocaust in Ukrainian Literature and Culture” – one that is not offered at any other...

At the annual Jewish Foundation luncheon on Nov 22,  Lloyd Axworthy, President of the University of Winnipeg spoke about his vision of the University as part of a down town of the city that is...

Leon Leyson, the younget  Holocaust survivor on Schindler's List  dies in Los Angeles home aged 83. Leyson spoke in Winnipeg in 2010 and the Winnipeg Jewish Review is reprinting his story...

Tu B'Shevat For Teens in partnership with Congregation Etz Chayim with "Poor Boy" performing live at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory on Saturday, January 19th, from 8pm-11pm (Admission...

B’nai Brith Canada has alerted police to a protest planned tonight in Vaughan, Ontario. The Jewish human rights organization has warned that the inflammatory rhetoric on the promotional flyer...

In light of the opposition generated when former Senator Chuck Hagel’s candidacy for Defense Secretary was initially mooted, most analysts predicted - mistakenly - that President Obama would...

Alarmed at the high numbers of young Jews who had never been to Israel, and the implications for the future of North American Jewry, a group of philanthropists decided to create a unique first time...

[Editor's note: Regarding the  Satement fo the  Westminister Church which can be found below, Shelley Faintuch, Community Relations Director of the  Jewish Federation of Winnipeg...

The Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) is pleased to announce that Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory...

It is astounding to me to read in this publication, and in so many others, a continuing flow of serious presentations by apparently rational people, talking about “peace with the...

Two Iranian men Zaneyar and Loghman Moradi are facing imminent execution after being arrested without charge and having been subjected to brutal torture which forced them into making...

The Levy Report, published on July 9th, 2012, concludes, among other things, that: “According to international law, Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria and that...

The Winnipeg Jewish Review is scheduled to be reporting from Jerusalem at the David Citadel Hotel, and the Beit Agron Press Building down the street throughout PM Stephen Harper's first trip to...

  http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/05/david-frum-where-is-the-palestinian-state-in-embryo/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hair-burning-attack-not-anti-semitic-canadian-judge-rules/