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The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Commemorates Raoul Wallenberg
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...
Tu Bishvat News: IDF recruits trees for home defense
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...
RESULTS OF ASPER LOTTERY: PAUL KOWALL TO GO ON A WINE TOUR! EVEN EDITOR’S SISTER IS A WINNER!!
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...
The Real Story behind the Rady’s Music ‘N’ Mavens Series: An Exclusive Report by the WJR
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...
ASPER CAMPUS WILL ABSORB ANY LOSS FROM JANUARY JACKPOT LOTTERY AS DECIDED WHEN DECISION MADE TO CONDUCT THE LOTTERY
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...
KELVIN HIGH SCHOOL TO MARK 100 YEARS WITH REUNION CELEBRATION
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
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...
LAUNCH OF SHAWFEST
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...
MATAS BANNED FROM RUSSIA FOR REPORT CRITICIZING CHINA: MATAS ALSO PRESSING RUSSIA TO OPEN UP ARCHIVES RELATING TO RAUL WALLENBERG
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...
EDITORIAL: SIMKIN CENTRE AND NARCOTICS CONTOL
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...
CHATTERLEY’S BOOK DISENCHANTMENT SELECTED AS FINALIST FOR NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
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...
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Deplores Antisemitic Editorial in BC Newspaper
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...
GRAY ACADEMY MAY HAVE TO TAKE WAIT LISTS AS ENROLLMENT REACHES MAXIMUM
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...
JNF AND SZ PUT ON COMMUNITY–WIDE TU B’ SHEVAT FAMILY EVENT AT CHILDREN’S MUSEUM FEB 5.
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...
Former Winnipegger Carole Freeman finds her muse on Facebook
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...
Camp Massad – Changing Lives for 60 Summers
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
Hamas Says Gaza Not “Occupied”; U.N. Disagrees
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 Flying High!
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...
Basketball Players Yael Kaplan And Eric Zimmerman Have Been Chosen As The Lea Marc Printing Solutions Wesmen Athletes Of The Month For December
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...
Future Leaders Event To Honour Manitoba’s Best Young Talent Jan 26- Jordan Hochman and Gustavo Zentner nominated
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...
RICHARD LEVY’s JOURNAL PART 2: JNF Trip to Spain and Israel- October-November 2011
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)
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...
Noam Bedein: Eshkol Council Complains to UN After Gaza regime fires chemical weapons at Western Negev residents
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...
BLANKSTEIN AND URE ARE FIRST GLTB COUPLE TO BE MARRIED AT SHAAREY ZEDEK
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...
Family history makes novel- Review of Book by Former Winnipegger Marvin Blauer
[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: WHY DO UNRWA & REUTERS CALL MUNITIONS TUNNELS AN ECONOMIC BOOM
[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...
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section hosting Citizenship Court
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...
MICHELLE GLASS AND CINDY LAZAR INSTALLED AS NEW INCOMING CO-PRESIDENTS OF WPG SECTION OF NCJW
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...
DEBORAH LIPSTADT: HOW TO STUDY ANTISEMITISM
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...
Interview with Gloria Greenfield, Director of UNMASKED: Judeophobia and the Threat to Civilization, in Wpg on Jan 5
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: Will Hizbullah Get Syria’s WMD if Assad Goes Down?
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...
UKRAINIAN CANADIAN COMMUNITY RENEWS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY AT HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM
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...
HISTORIC LETTER FROM ELLIOT LEVEN TO THE EDITOR RECEIVED MAY 1982 ON EDITOR’S ARRIVAL TO KIBBUTZ EIN HANATZIV ISRAEL
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...
SIMKIN CENTRE CO-CHAIRS RENEWED DELORME’S CONTRACT FOR FIVE YEARS WITHOUT PRIOR CONSULTATION WITH WHRA OR MB HEALTH
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...
HEBREW U PROF: IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE YOU HAVE TO THINK OF CHICKEN SOUP
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...
Former Winnipegger Velvl Greene, Head of BGU Jewish Medical Ethics, Died at 83
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...
ISRAELI ARCHITECTS WHO WON COMPETITION LAST YEAR FOR RIVER SKATE TRAIL IN WPG PLAN WINTER GARDEN PROJECT
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",...
EDITOR’S PICK: Danita Aziza: Lesson #41- It’s Not All About Me
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...
ALIYA MAMA MARIANNE TANZER: AT THE GYM, ANOTHER FIRST
[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...
FROM YAMIT AND GUSH KATIF TO HALUTZIOT: BERKOWITS VISITS HALUTZIOT IN THE NEGEV TO SEE KKL-JNF PROJECT
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...
Chanukkah Celebration by B’nai Brith Yachad Couples Unit at the Simkin Centre on December 21
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...
14th Anniversary of Music ‘N’ Mavens Features A Bounty of Events For Your Senses
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...
DAVID FRUM: THE LEFT’ S WRINGHEADED ANTISEMITISM DEBATE
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...
EDITORIAL: AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT FOR OAK PARK HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ATTEND THIS YEAR’S HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM
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...
Iran wants consulates in cities like Vancouver- Shimon Fogel says there’s legit concern consulates to be used to monitor Iranian activists
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...
NEW BOOK ABOUT HOW THE NAZIS STOLE THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS FOR THE VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE FROM A JEWISH ENGINEER
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...
ELLIOT ABRAMS: MR. FRIEDMAN’S DIATRIBE AGAINST ISRAEL
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 TEN STUDENTS FACE CHARGES FOR ASSAULT AND HATE CRIMES IN ANTISEMITIC INCIDENT AT OAKPARK HIGH SCHOOL
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....













































