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Ian Rabb Recognized For His Community Work Fighting Battle Addictions -Receives Queen’s Diamond Jubilee- Sits on Task Force of JCFS Against Addictions
[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...
David Bedein: The Legacy of Rabbi David Hartman: Popularity is not important. Integrity is.
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...
Successful Hillel Conference Held in Winnipeg
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...
Brent Sasley: Why is Obama going to Israel?
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...
Schacter Tribute to Fund Ongoing FASD Research
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....
Former Winnipegger Dr. Ali Zentner shares 175-Pound Weight Loss Story and Weight Loss Tips In New Book
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/11/ali-zentner-weight-loss_n_2456922.html
DANITA AZIZA: SHABBAT OFFERS ME MAXIMUM RETURN ON INVESTMENT
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...
Rady JCC Takes February To Heart
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...
IN MEMORIAM : HART PIEKOFF -ALCOHOLISM IS A PROBLEM IN OUR COMMUNITY
[*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...
New Holocaust Memorial:-A Trench Runs Through It
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/12/opinion/a-trench-runs-through-it.html
Leave More Than Memories – Endow Your Annual CJA Gift Today!
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-ONE SIDED UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT CALLS FOR FORCED EVICTION OF JEWS FROM JERUSALEM’S OLD CITY
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...
Winnipeg Entrepreneur Matthew Ostrove Establishes Jewish Chapter in the Chamber of Commerce
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...
Jewish Ethics Program Launched at Rady JCC’s Kaufman Child Care Centre
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...
Jane Enkin’s Review of The National Theatre of the World presented by Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and Sondheimfest
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...
Israel Pavilion-Shalom Square Invites Applicants for Youth & Adult Ambassador Positions
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...
Max Roytenberg: Seventy Nine Years old and Counting My Blessings
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,...
Elliot Leven: Anti-Semitism on Twitter just the tip of the iceberg
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...
Memorial Event wih Dr. James Christie held to commemorate the 68th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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...
Rabbi Ari Ellis: Rivets, Shabbat, and the Future of our Community
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...
Gray Academy Joins the 21st Century at Gray’s Social Launch
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...
Are You an Ethical Person? New Course to be Offered at the Jewish Learning Centre
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....
CANADIAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN – GURION UNIVERSITY HIRES A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SAMANTHA LOXTON
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...
WENDY ERLANGER: BOOK SALES OF “MORE THAN SOUP” FEED CANCER CARE PROGRAM
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...
The Spodek family: What Happens When Hockey and Philanthropy Collide?
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...
Leave More Than Memories – Endow Your Annual CJA Gift Today!
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 GRUBER OFFERS INSIGHT AT PREMIERE OF FOLLOW ME-INSPIRING LIFE STORY OF YONI NETANYAHU-CFHU EVENT
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...
Rabbi Pinsker: The Business of Jewish Life: Reflections on New Hours for the Rady Jewish Community Centre- Read Pinsker’s Recommendations
[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....
High School Students Devote Full Day to Raising Awareness about Human Rights Issues on Raoul Wallenberg Day
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...
University of Toronto Grad Student Union Passes BDS motion against Israel– Will Grad Student Union at U of M be Next?
[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...
Simone Cohen Scott : Examining the Possibility of Israeli Annexation of Judea and Samaria
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...
Rady JCC Announces bbyo Connect – New Program for Jewish Teens in Grades Seven & Eight
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...
Music N Mavens Celebrates 15th Anniversary
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/arts-and-culture/2013/01/15/festival-celebrates-15th-anniversary
ELLIOT LEVEN ON JEWISH SETTLEMENTS: MATAS CORRECT IN PRINCIPLE BUT HIS ARGUMENTS ARE ACADEMIC, UNREALISTIC
[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...
Unique Holodomor and Holocaust course offered at University of Manitoba
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...
AXWORTHY AT JEWISH FOUNDATION LUNCHEON: COMMUNITY IS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE PREVAIL
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 YOUNGEST HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ON SCHINDLERS LIST DIES AT AGE 83-REMEMBERING HIS STORY
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...
LISTING OF JNF TU BISHVAT PROGRAMS (PARTNERING WITH SYNAGOGUES) AND JNF TU BISHVAT TELETHON-VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
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...
Blood Libel Hits Toronto
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...
Isi Liebler: Hagel Nomination Conveys Chilling Message
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...
Birthright The trip lasts ten days, but the memories last a lifetime
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...
A Winnipeg United Church Refuses to Support United Church of Canada’s Boycott on Israeli Settlement Products
[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...
Deborah Lipstadt to Speak for CISA on April 22 “’Hard-and Soft-Core’ Holocaust Denial in the 21st Century”
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...
Max Roytenberg: Peace, the Palestinians and Platitudes
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...
Sayeh Hassan: Stop the Execution of two Iranian Political Prisoners – Loghman and Zaneyar Moradi!
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...
Olivor Javanpour: Dispelling Occupation Myth & Reaffirming Israel’s Legal Rights to Judea and Samaria
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...
Editor’s Report: Re: PM Harper’s Upcoming Trip to Israel
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...
David Frum in the National Post asks where the Palestinian state in embryo is?
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/05/david-frum-where-is-the-palestinian-state-in-embryo/
Hair-burning attack not anti-Semitic, Canadian judge rules
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hair-burning-attack-not-anti-semitic-canadian-judge-rules/













































