Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:30am – 2:30pm, Asper Jewish Community Campus, 123 Doncaster Street The Global Day of Jewish Learning unites Jewish communities around the globe to celebrate...
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba Hansard Monday, October 24th, 2011 MEMBERS’ STATEMENTS Robert and Sandy Shindleman Mrs. Heather Stefanson (Tuxedo): It is my pleasure to honour the...
Thirty-one new names were added this year to the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba’s Endowment Book of life, at a signing ceremony that was attended by over 325 people held at the Shaarey Zedek...
It is my respectful opinion that the Board of the Simkin Centre desperately and urgently needs to reform, or else I fear that the institution will suffer more harm and damage than it already has....
I was going to write about Debbie and Jerry Maslowsky's performance at the Jewish Foundation's Endowment Book of Life evening at the Shaarey Zedek on September 21 as part of one article about the...
How is it that we never seem to love our kids enough, be smart enough, good enough, handsome or pretty enough, accomplished enough, rich enough or lucky enough? We are oftentimes compelled to...
[Editor's note: This article was published in 2009 in Tikkun Magazine by Rabbi Neil Rose and his three sons, all Rabbis, after the sam-sex marriage of Rabbi Rose's eldest son Avi...
[This article written by David Frum published in the National Post recently caught my eye since both he and his sister, Senator Linda Frum were in Winnipeg this past...
Neire Mercer and Sara Raymond, a lesbian couple who are involved in Anakhnu, Winnipeg's Jewish GLBT group ,are looking forward to their upcoming joint Bat-Mitzvah celebration which will be...
[Editor's note: Journalist and author Thanassis Cambanis, was in Winnipeg to speak on November 2, at the Etz Chaim Synagogue about the Middle East and Arab Spring ]...
The National Council of Jewish Women, Winnipeg Section fielded a team at the Run for the Cure this September. The Run for the Cure, in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is...
In 1960 when Martin Luther King Jr. ended up in a Birmingham jail, it was a bold phone call from the then President of the United States that ended up being a key reason why most African-Americans...
Concordia cancels radical Islamist conference - Ryerson, McMaster & York host hate...
Harvey Berkal has taken the rare step as a private citizen of initiating a private prosecution against the Simkin Centre pursuant to The Criminal Code of Canada which allows private citizens to do...
Ve'shavu banim le'gvulam" "And thy sons shall return to their borders". Gilad Shalit's long-awaited homecoming after 5 ½ years in captivity is testament to the...
IN LOVING MEMORY OF TWO SPECIAL SOULS,...
The Winnipeg Jeiwsh review has started to get referral hits from the website of the Toronto Star. This is because the Toronto Star on October 17, 2011 wrote about ...
Today, after more than five years of being held hostage by Hamas terrorists, captured soldier Gilad Shalit has finally been released. This poignant day is one for which our Federation has long...
The following is the complete text written by Prof. Lionel Steiman, for the OUTLOOK Brunch, that took place on Fort Garry Hotel, October 16, 2011. Lloyd Axworthy once said that...
[Editor's note: The Winnipeg Jewish Review has received a number of comments in regard to the Shalit prisoner deal and Fern Shawna Rykiss that have been posted in our...
The liberation of Gilad Shalit on the eve of Sukkot, after five cruel years of incarceration was the outcome of a major conflict between the heart and the mind in which turbulent emotions triumphed....
[Editor's note:Readers may be interested in this article by Rebecca Koropatwa about Harvey Chochinov, who holds of the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care. Chochinov is the director...
Editor's note: While surfing the web the other day, I came across this article by Rebeca Kuropatwa on the PaleoJudaica Blogspot (a blog I did not know existed.) In the article,...
Dorothy (Babe) Hershfield, 19 June 1917 to 5 October 2011 Beloved mother of Susan (Professor Myron 'Mike' Turner) & Joel...
[Editor's note: Paul Lungen is a former Winnipegger] TORONTO — The CBC is being accused of “journalistic malpractice” for airing a radio program that discussed the demise of...
Editor's note: I have just been informed today October 19, by Larry Sarbit, Harriet Berkal, Marsha Palansky and Elaine Berliner that their applications to become Board Members of...
SUMMARY OF STORY: Tuesday October 11,CEO-Sandra Delorme goes on medical leave. Tuesday, October 11, p.m.-Staff Appreciation Pizza Party announced Wednesday Morning, October 12- Jean Cox of WRHA...
I just received this from a subscriber to the Winipeg Jewish Review today October 12, --I will update the story in due course: Rhonda, Don’t know if you know…Washington Post...
-NETANYAHU DOES NOT TAKE HIS OWN ADVICE Although Prime Minister Netanyahu has pushed for the deal approved with Hamas to release Gilad Schalit in exchange for a thousand Palestinian...
McNally Robinson Book Sellers and Gray Matter Imprints present Brenda Barrie Launching “The Rabbi’s Husband” Thursday, October Twenty-Seventh Grant Park Location...
Manitoba’s special relationship with Israel will continue “absolutely” a beaming Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, told the Winnipeg Jewish Review at the New...
Bnai Brith Midwest Region has become involved with the Eritrean-Canadian Human Rights Group of Manitoba and recently co-sponsored a seminar at Convocation Hall of the University of Winnipeg...
An observant Jew who lived in a posh neighborhood, built a Sukkah on his balcony. Some of his 'high society' non-Jewish neighbors brought him to court. They claimed that the Sukkah on his balcony...
I really don’t like to be disappointed. If I have planned something and it doesn’t quite pan out the way I intended, or I’ve cooked something and it doesn’t...
[Editor's note: Miri Eisen who will be in Winnipeg on October 27 [see related ad on this website] was last here in 2006. At that time , I reported on her talk for the Canadian Jewish News....
Winnipeg, MB – After competing in three one-hour rounds at last weekend’s esteemed provincial debate...
[Editor's note: This article by elliot Abrams attracted my attention becasue many years ago when I was active in Canadian Friends of Peace Now I met Sari Nusseibah at a peace...
Rabbi Laurence Pinsker has just won the Winnipeg Free Press/Writers' Collective 2011 Non-Fiction Contest yesterday. Non-fiction winners are: First Place - Lessons from a Man of Clay by...
Editor's note: Mira sucharov was ahead of her time when she sent me the article she wrote about Facebook in 2008, that was titled "Facebook as a Town Square." At the time I remember...
Editor's note: Rebeca Kuropatwa has written an article in Bnai Brith Canada's newpaper, The Jewish Tribune about Harris Gulko. Gulko writing as David G. Sirrah launched his book " Love Letters...
Ottawa – Liberal Justice and Human Rights Critic, Irwin Cotler, delivered the following in light of the 70th Anniversary of Babi Yar: “Mr. Speaker, seventy years ago, in one of...
CJA’s Super Sunday telethon and dance party on September 11th officially kicked off this year’s Annual Campaign with laughter, screams of delight, displays of generosity and a general...
Zane Zalis 's " I Believe" Holocaust oratorio which premiered in 2009 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, several soloists and a chorus of 180 singers, has since been featured at...
Four fabulous shows available thru Sun Ice Tours Visit our website: www.sunicetours.com LES MISERABLES Live at the Orpheum Theater Christmas Shopping tour 15 -18 Dec 2011 Cameron...
[Editor's note: Anje van Tongeron was written about in the Israeli press when she was recently in Israel returning two wedding rings to a family she knew before the war. A version of this...
After reading Faith Kaplan’s delightful review of this particular book, I’ve decided to weigh in with my impressions as I am truly the target audience that the author intended to...
[Editor's note: Thank you to a Professor at University of Manitoba for bringing this piece ot my attention] A CounterContempt exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal that leftist...
UPDATE NOV , 2011: Tewo weeks ago I wrote ana rticle below about the fact that Mahmoud Reza Khavari , who was the managing director of Bank Meli in Iran, is now in Canada. On...
The Manitoba Liberals have proposed more flexible Sunday shopping hours. "We believe businesses should be able to decide their own hours. Treating Sunday morning as off limits for shopping ' is...
