Some 40 young adults attended this year’s annual North End Jewish Bus Tour put on by J-PEG [the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg's young adult division] which took place the first week in...
The Simkin centre announced the hiring of Jan Currie as an interim CEO on a half time basis on December 13, 2011 until March 30, 2012. The position for an interim CEO was not advertised...
The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, the leader in planned giving solutions for Manitoba’s Jewish philanthropists, today announced that it has received an $8.48 million bequest from the estate...
In accepting the B’nai Brith Award of Merit on Nov 21 at the Fairmont Hotel, Robert Shindleman rose to the podium and quipped, “I wasn’t sure we were going to win, so I...
The writer is national director of Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University. This ariticle first appeared in the Jerusalem Post A summer of social protests has passed and we are now...
(December 9, 2011) The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg is pleased to announce the election of Israel Ludwig as President effective Thursday, December 8, 2011. “Rael” is 64 years old...
SKIN GETS READY FOR WINTER by Rhonda Spivak Dr. Lori Shapiro, daughter of Harry and Roz Shapiro, has some very important tips to give to readers of the Winnipeg Jewish Review about...
[This article was prepared for the Winnipeg Jewish Review. Heidi Berger lives in Montreal] For 20 years until shortly before her death in 2006, my mother Ann Kazimirski visited hundreds of...
NO one said starting a museum from scratch about a sensitive subject, using evolving technology in a shaky economy, would be easy or come without a few questions raised. To read more click...
A controversy has arisen about a Toronto public school with a student body that is about 80% Muslim. For three years, Muslim students at Valley Park Middle School have been praying in the school...
The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada is pleased to announce that the featured speaker for the 2012 Sol and Florence Kanee Distinguished Lecture Series will be Efraim Halevy, former head of...
Gray Academy prides itself on its unique educational offering in Winnipeg. And with the one-of-a-kind Special Education Resource Program it has in place for its 18 government-funded, levels 2 and 3...
The Winnipeg Jewish Review just received a letter asking us to telling readers that beginning on December 9th, there is a film opening at the Globe Cinema in Winnipeg that will be of...
There were several very problematic comments made by journalist Thannasis Cambanis when he was in Winnipeg last month when he presented his views in a lecture about the Arab Spring at the Etz...
[Editor's note: Shaarey Zedek Congregation is no longer formally associated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ). But it does upholds the standards and practices of ...
[This has been reprinted with permision from http://rabbipinsker.blogspot.com/. It was written this past summer] The sun has set and our first Shabbat in Jerusalem is over, but it has left...
Secretary of Defense Panetta addressed the Saban Forum, the annual meeting of Israeli and American journalists, officials, and former officials, on Friday evening. What he said is no mystery; why he...
Every Friday morning in Oklahoma City, a siren wails. The piercing shrieks that the siren emits are a test of the system that warns of an impending tornado that threatens the city. When Oklahoma...
Readers may be interested to read what Rex Murphy had to say at a recent event in Vancouver about Israel. One of my favourites of what Murphy said as quoted in...
Rachel Browne's new dance Radiance, dedicated to the memory of Babs Asper and composer Ann Southam, premiered on December 1 at the Rachel Browne Theatre. Browne, a ballet dancer, modern...
I have been writing about 21st century anti-Semitism since the turn of the century. Words don't fail me, nor has my spirit grown dim. But what is now going on is so ghastly, so omnipresent, so...
[ Editor's note: Richard Levy is a Montreal based lawyer who has written a journal of his recent trip to Israel on a JNF tour. This is the first of a series of his journal...
In a telephone interview with the Winnipeg Jewish Review on Nov 24, Phyllis Spigelman, who was then Chair of the Simkin Centre Board of said that the contract of Sandra Delorme , CEO of the...
HOT OFF THE PRESS READ ABOUT HOW YAEL KAPLAN LEADS WINNIPEG WESMAN TO VICTORY OVER MANITOBA BISONS WIYTH 17 POINTS AND 11 REBOUNDS!!...
It is five thirty in the morning as I write this and I have not yet been to sleep. While putting on the final touches of this edition of the Winnipeg Jewish Review, I remembered that I haven't...
The Holocaust Monument on the Grounds of the provincial Legislature, erected in 1990, had 3000 names of Holocaust victims inscribed. In 1997, 56 additional names were engraved. Since then, members...
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The op-ed Abe Foxman, Anti-Defamation League chairman has written this week in the the Huffington Post entitled "The Assault on Israel's Vibrant...
[ Recommended:The above video show's how Engineers without Borders of Technion helped peopel in Nepal.] TECHNION ENGINEER AND C0-FOUNDER OF ISRAEL’S NATIONAL HOCKEY TEAM : WE...
All my life I have been told, and since becoming a rabbi, I have been telling people that the Jewish people are one, a single family united by a common past and a shared destiny. Recently,...
Reprinted with permission Recently, Yale shut down its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). Some claimed that the center was perhaps too "political."...
Steven Schipper’s Romeo and Juliet currently playing at the Manitoba Theatre Centre is not the first time that this play by Shakespeare has been set in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian...
[Editor's note: This is the speech delivered by Winnipeg lawyer John McGoey of Pitblado Law at the B'nai Brith Award of Merit Gala on Nov 21, 2011 at the Fairmont...
For some, buying a new cookbook is like buying a new car. Choices are based on research and reviews, with fierce determination to find the best fit with all the bells and whistles one could...
Several faith-based groups protested outside the Toronto District School Board's headquarters Monday over Muslim prayers taking place in a Toronto school. For three years, hundreds of...
A virtue of minority governments in Canada is that the ruling party has got to pay attention to its Parliamentary opposition, and must negotiate compromises. A negative is that legislation can get...
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The Muslim Brotherhood held a rally at Cairo’s most important mosque, al-Azhar. This is sort of a central headquarters for official Islam in Egypt. Demonstrators chanted, “One day we...
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Disney's The Jungle Book Kids performed by Gray Academy’s Grades 5 and 6 was fantastic. The jungle was jumping with jazz in this energetic performance, under the direction of Miriam...
November 20th was the 30th anniversary of Hart’s and my first date. We discovered we had much in common. I was planning to finish my BA and travel through Europe and Hart regaled me with...
For the first time ever, Canada Post has created two picture postage stamps specifically designed to celebrate Chanukah. [wouldn 't it be nice if they made eight stamps, one for each...
THIS IS A WEBSITE I JUST FOUND WHERE YOU CAN RATE THE SINKIN CENTRE. ONLY ONE PERSON HAS RATED THE FACILITY AS OF NOV 2011 AND HAS GIVEN IT A 10/10 IF YOU CARE TO RATE IT...
The following letter was received by Simkin Centre residents yesterday. The leadership review conducted by Peter Kafka of the Louis Brier home in Vancouver as part of the review of the...
[The Winnipeg Jeiwsh review will be doing a full report on the B'nai Brith Award of Merit Dinner Honouring Sandy and Robert Shindleman. The...
Bob Freedman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg has told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that plans are underway to add on an additional 6000 sq feet to the ground level of the Asper Jewish...
Oneof the highlights of this year’s Rady JCC Tarbut festival was the screening of Emmy award-winning filmmaker Michael King's film The Rescuers, with a question and answer session with the...
The Winnipeg Jewish Review has learned that this past summer The Simkin Centre, under the leadership of Phyllis Spigelman and Jack Litvack , co-Chairs of...
As a parent that has kids that attend school in the Winnipeg School Division, the quality and accessibility of our education system is key to their success – and the success of all...
The seventeen members of the senior class of Machon Madrichim, teen leadership institute, will be practicing their programming skills in Edmonton during the first weekend of December. They are...
