Winnipeg is in for a treat as Israeli percussionist Chen Zimblista will be the featured performer at the Jewish National Fund’s Negev Gala, honouring John and Bonnie Buhler – June 5th. I...
Hadira is a fascinating documentary with an unusual but true story line that provokes a lot of questions. I viewed it as part of the International Jewish Film Festival, put on by the Rady JCC and...
In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered UN peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel’s southern...
[Editor's note: Following Dr. Adam Muller's presentation at the Berney Theatre during Holocaust Awareness Week, The Winnipeg Jewish Review asked Dr. Alain...
When I was 10, my grandmother took me to Israel for three weeks to visit my aunt and uncle on Kibbutz Beit Hashita in the lower Galilee. Known for its olive and pickle factory, Beit Hashita was...
I often hear the term “Jewish values” mentioned but I’m never really sure what it means. Does it refer to aspirations or descriptions? If aspirations, do they derive from Torah or...
Editor's Note: Majeda El Batsh, the Israeli-Arab affairs correspondent of the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) reported from the Israeli Arab town of Umm El-Fahm in northern Israel that...
[At this year's Yom Hazikaron service, Wilf Mandel who lives in Toronto came to Winnipeg to address the crowd and tell the story of the heroism of his late uncle, former Winnipegger Willie...
There is no food and no clean water, nothing,” Mahmoud, a 12-year-old boy from Homs, Syria, told Reuters Thursday. “There is no shop open and we only have one meal a day. How can we live...
TORONTO — A longstanding disagreement over United Church statements on Israel burst into the open last week with Jewish leaders slamming a report by the church’s working group on...
I wanted to draw readers' attention to an article by Myron Love, a Prairies Correspondent for the Canadian Jewish News who in that publication about the new Shul in Winnipeg...
[Editor's note: The following is the speech delivered by Dr. Catherine Chatterley at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba's Women's Endowment Fund luncheon endowment fund luncheon in...
A Quebecker convert THE JERUSALEM POST MAGAZINE, 05/24/2012 By RHONDA SPIVAK...
[Editor's note: Here's the contents of a letter to donors that the Federation sent out recently. There's been some talk of this happening for a while-so there's no big surprise...
Sarajevo is a city that has become almost synonymous with successive calamities. Notorious as the venue of the event that sparked World War I—the assassination in 1914 of Austrian Archduke...
My Australia is a film I can strongly recommend on many counts. It's enjoyable for its fascinating story and superb acting. I'm grateful to have seen this film with friends –...
[Editor's note: The tribute evening in honour of Yude Henteleff put on by the Winnipeg Chapter of the Canadian Freinds of Hebrew University in April was a lovely event. ...
Today's Winnipeg Real Estate Market is more complex than ever.There is no doubt that buying or selling a home is for most people the largest single purchase or sale of their lives. The question is...
Mustafa Ceric is the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and hence the titular leader of Bosnia’s Muslim community. Educated in Sarajevo and in Egypt, he has long experience living and dealing...
Multi-Ovation Award Winner Hershey Felder directs Grammy Nominated Mona Golabek, the daughter of a child of the Kindertransport in THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE…the story of a little girl who...
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MONTREAL — The head of an influential Israeli think-tank dismissed an ex-prime minister and two former national security chiefs public doubts about the wisdom of military intervention against...
The US State Department funds, to the tune of half a billion dollars a year, a Palestinian Authority/ UNRWA educational curriculum based upon the RIGHT OF RETURN, an ideology...
His capture electrified the world. His trial riveted the attention of Jews everywhere…and all those who—for the first time since Nuremberg—could watch the trial of a major Nazi...
In an April 4 “open letter” to Abu Mazen, Israeli peace activist Yossi Beilin called on the Palestinian leader to dissolve the Palestinian Authority (PA) and to return full...
Haksheevu! Haksheevu! Camp Massad’s 60th anniversary on-site reunion is just three months away. Dozens of former campers, counsellors, hanhallah members and eemot are attending the weekend...
[Editor's note-There are a lot of great offerings at the Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival. Several different writers will be reviewing a sampling of the films. To see what is...
Antisemitism in Canada: A 30-Year Retrospective The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada has monitored and reported on hate-motivated incidents directed at the Jewish...
Stefan Carter's memoir, From Warsaw to Winnipeg: A Personal Tale of Two Cities is a personal account of childhood in Europe before and during the Second World War. As the book...
When a child's parents separate or divorce, a question that occasionally arises is whether or not the child's grandparents are entitled to continue relationships with their grandchild. In some...
I love the holiday of Simchas Torah. The rest of the year we come to study the hows and whys of Torah; we engage with and challenge the laws and the narrative. On Simchas Torah,...
Readers may be interested in reading an article about the comeback of the Yiddish language that was recently published in teh University of Manitoba alumni...
Beginning this September, there will be a new opportunity for Winnipeg Jews to build community together. The New Shul of Winnipeg "Bet Knesset Hadash" will hold regular...
Until very recently, I took comfort in knowing that our Jewish religious schools are finally cranking out students who know the difference between Purim and Passover. (Purim involves a hat.) Or know...
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(Revised remarks prepared for the Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Ontario, 17 April 2012) ...
Grade Eight and Students at Gray Academy placed first in Manitoba overall and second in Canada in the Canadian National Math League Competition. The competition involves some 480...
*The historical truth of the centrality of antisemitism to producing the Holocaust has been known and settled since the war. *Each of three outstanding historians of the Holocaust...
You had to be there ... really, what with the naughty jokes I can't quote, and the political jokes I can't quote, you had to be there. And what with the terrific timing and delivery of the...
Shalom Life has celebratedthe 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish men in the world. We're bringing you the top ten choices for the HOTTEST jewish men on their list....
How do I write about Allan Blye? The more I learn about this very handsome, humble and gentle man the more difficult it gets. Allan and Blye were two of the first words in my vocabulary. As a very...
Very recently, Efraim Halevy, a former Mossad director, national security adviser and ambassador, [who spoke last night at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue on behalf of the Jewish Heritage Centre],...
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Winnipeg, MB. – April 12, 2012– Since its 1997 inception in Winnipeg,Manitoba, one of Canada’s largest educational initiativeshas now reached almost 10,500 high school students and...
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Back in March, I was fortunate to attend the annual Washington Policy Conference of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as a youth delegate of CJPAC, the Canadian Jewish...
ISRAEL I-Facts KNOW THE FACTS – THEN DECIDE Myth #1 Israel is an “apartheid” state THE FACTS 1. There is NO segregation by race or ethnicity in Israel. 2....
Hannah Rosenthal, a member of Hillary Clinton’s State Department, is the US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism worldwide. She will be CISA’s first Shindleman...
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