The mission of the Global Day Of Jewish learning held a couple of months ago in November, 2011 was to bring the Jewish people together once a year to celebrate our foundational Jewish texts through...
Toronto, ON – In honour of Raoul Wallenberg Day, which was established ten years ago by Parliament to be observed every January 17th, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and...
Army launches new program in conjunction with Jewish National Fund to make targeting Israeli homes homes harder for Gaza terrorists. The IDF is known for its sophisticated and advanced...
Approximately 40 people gathered in the Berney Theatre foyer to witness the draw, mostly staff from the various Campus agencies and Gray Academy students. Barry McArton, President of...
What is the mysterious and persistent appeal for regular Berney Theatre-goers who enjoy it season in and season out? Why are the doors open at 1:15 for a 2:00 performance? Who exactly is...
In the likely event that the Asper Campus January Jackpot Lottery incurs a loss, this loss will be absorbed by the Campus itself and not passed on to tenants in the building. This is the...
Media Release December 22, 2011 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – In a city where people joke about having less than six degrees of separation, there may never be a better time to tap into the network than...
John Hirsch Biography to be Launched in Winnipeg Véhicule Press is pleased to announce that A Fiery Soul: The Life and Theatrical Times of John Hirsch by Fraidie Martz and Andrew Wilson will...
ShawFest, the 2012 Master Playwright Festival, opened today with a lively Shavian Shindig at the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre, as media and theatre people chatted with costumed actors from many of...
Winnipeg's David Matas is persona non grata in Russia, where he says he last visited about 1998 "when I was involved in a human rights conference.". The international human rights...
One of the things that Jan Currie, acting CEO of the Simkin Centre hopefully will address very soon, if she hasn't already, is the issue of narcotics control at the Simkin Centre. Here's...
Dr. Catherine Chatterley's book, Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, has been selected as a Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Awards in...
OTTAWA, ON – Today, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was made aware of an editorial in a British Columbia newspaper, The Link, entitled “Racism, Capitalism, and Zionism are the...
The following is a lettter form Gray Academy sent to parents with children already enrolled in the school: THE GOOD NEWS Enrolment at Gray Academy this year has...
Everyone is invited to come celebrate the community-wide Tu B’ Shevat Family event with Congregation Shaarey Zedek and the Jewish National Fund on Sunday, February 5th from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/carole-freeman-finds-her-muse-on-facebook/article2258155/ Friend Me: Portraits of Facebook runs at Toronto’s Edward Day Gallery...
Once again, winter is proving to be a very busy time for Camp Massad, North America’s only Hebrew immersion residential summer camp. On-line registration for the summer of 2012 has just begun – with the promise of a $200 discount for those who register before February 13
GENEVA, Jan. 3 - The UN’s continued labeling of the Gaza Strip as “occupied” was directly contradicted today by a top leader of Hamas, the vehemently anti-Israel Palestinian terror...
Machon Madrichim, Federation’s Teen Leadership Institute, is flying high this Chanukah season. December has been jam-packed with various opportunities for this dynamic group of high...
The University of Winnipeg Wesmen in conjunction with lea marc Printing Solutions announced that Basketball Players Yael Kaplan and Eric Zimmermanhave been chosen as the lea marc Printing...
Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 4, 2012 – The Future Leaders of Manitoba Council will host its 4th Annual Awards Reception at the Fort Garry Place on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. to...
AVI MELAMED SPEAKS TO US ON A HILLTOP IN JERUSALEM Avi told us, towards the end of his presentation, that he has a blog in which he conducts TV interviews in Arabic intended for the Arab...
B’nai Brith Embraces Israel Peace Week (IPW) BBOC has joined together with 75 campuses across Canada, the United States, and Australia in order to confront the annual hate fest of IAW...
Haim Jelin, chairman of the Eshkol Regional Council, on Monday forwarded a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, complaining of the use of chemical weapons against residents of southern Israel...
Arthur Blankstein and Ken Ure are the first GLTB couple to be married under the auspices of the Shaarey Zedek synagogue, officiated by the clergy at the synagogue on January 21 2012. The...
[Reprinted with permission from the Vancouver Jewish Independent] In his first novel, Marvin Blauer invigorates and expands upon the generic “boy-meets-girl story” by basing...
[Noam Bedein will be coming to Winnipeg in January ] On December 7th, 2011, UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] issued an extensive report which lauded the vast amount of cement...
Citizenship Court , December 15, 2011 National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section hosted citizenship court on Thursday, December 15. Michelle Glass, newly elected co-president...
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section held its annual general meeting on Wednesday, December 7. Along with the usual business of an annual report, financial...
When the news of Yale University’s decision to close its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) was first made public in early June, the sector of the blogosphere...
CISA will premiere UNMASKED in Winnipeg at the Berney Theatre on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:30pm. Ms. Greenfield will be our guest. Dr. Chatterley: Why have you used the term...
Former Israeli Mossad Chief, Efraim HaLevy [who will be speaking in Winnipeg to deliver the Kanee lecture for the Jewish Historical Society], has expressed concerns that given the...
December 22, 2011-Winnipeg, Canada-The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) has renewed its call for an independent review of the Canadian Human Rights Museum (CMHR) and a suspension of incremental...
The following is a letter from Elliot Leven that I received in May 1982 after arriving with h my grade 12 graduating class form Joseph Wolinsky clollegiate on Kiibbutz Ein Hanatziv. Elliot had...
The Winnipeg Jewish review has learned that neither the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority [WHRA] or Manitoba Health was consulted by the Simkin Centre Co-Chairs Phyllis Spigelman...
In order to understand Alzheimer’s disease, you have to think of chicken soup! When you make chicken soup, you get all those oil drops that start to form together until you get one big...
Renowned former chairman of epidemiology and public health at Ben-Gurion University, Professor Velvl Greene, who was borne in Winnipeg to ardently secular, Zionist parents in 1928, died...
http://www.indiegogo.com/Winter-Garden?a=337829 Last January, two Israeli architects, Roy Talmon and Noa Biran won the 2011 "Warming Huts - Art + Architecture competition on ice",...
Where I come from, the heftiest weight on the collective mind is the inability to control the weather only to be seconded by a grasshopper outbreak that could destroy a whole growing season of...
[Marianne Tanzer, wife of Fromer Winnipegger Koby Tanzer, who has made aliya wrote this recently on her blog www.aliyamama.ca With Elan’s first birthday looming, I decided it was time...
JNF Executive Director Rob Berkowits was recently in Israel for his first time last month, and says that one of the many highlights of his trip was seeing the new community of Haluziot in the desert...
Winnipeg B’nai Brith Yachad Couples Unit 5056 is looking forward to hosting their third annual Chanukah celebrationat the Saul & Claribel Simkin Centre. The program will be on Dec. 21st at...
Winnipeg, MB - It’s time to get the calendar out for the fourteenth anniversary season of Music ‘N’ Mavens! Fresh from the successful run of the Tarbut Festival of...
Rather unbelievably, liberal writers are bashing a former AIPAC spokesman for keeping a tally of their obnoxious anti-Israel comments. A blogosphere spat is revealing an important fracture in the...
While interviewing Superintendent Laurence Lussier of the Pembina School Trail Division about the recent antisemtic incident where two youths are being charged for allegedly singing the hair...
Thank you to a reader for sending me an article published recently in Embassy magazine in Ottawa. Iran wants Canada to let it open consulates across the country, something that a Canadian...
There is an interesting story in the Jewish Tribune today. The true story of the Jewish engineer whose original designs for the Volkswagen (VW) Beetle were stolen by the Nazis is going...
Occasionally critics of the government of Israel and of its American supporters put aside polite talk and bare their souls, and that can be an edifying if deeply unattractive moment. Such a moment...
Two Grade 10 students at Oak Park High School in Charleswood are now facing assault and hate charges as a result of threatening a Jewish teen at the school with a lighter and singing her hair....
