The Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival presents the best feature-films and documentaries from around the globe, on subjects of Jewish identity, culture, history and diversity. The ten-day...
I wish to bring to the attention of readers an article by Peter Worthington in the Toronto Sun, "Museum of Human Rights Mess" where writes that Holocaust victims "are...
Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Memorial Day falls on the 27th of Nisan, mid way between the anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Yom Ha’atzmaut. This year, the 27th of Nisan falls on Sunday, May 1st. There will be memorial services on that day.
Senator Linda Frum, an accomplished writer and journalist who authored a Canadian bestseller, “Barbara Frum: Daughter’s Memoir (1996), was in Winnipeg April 28-29, 2011.
Mazel Tov to Dr. Richard Boroditsky, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences University of Manitoba and the medical director of the interdisciplinary ...
On April 28, The Winnipeg Jewish Review wrote an article about the poster which is seen here that was put up prior to Israel Apartheid Week advertiing an off campus fundraiser for ...
An Opportunity To Acknowledge Premier Selinger and Minister Chistine Melnick's Ongoing Support of Israel and Our Local Community Time: Saturday April 30th at 6pm Place...
Winnipeg, MB – April 25, 2011 – The devil is in the details, and no one knows that better than the team at Strauss event & association management. For 15 years, the Winnipeg-based...
Editor’s note: The first article is by Zach Paikin [Liberal] and the response is by Ian Mann [Conservative]. Both of these articles have appeared in the Prince Arthur Herald. Paikin: A Plea to...
B'nai Brith Manitoba Pre-election Forum AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A DISCUSSION OF ISSUES OF IMPORT AND CONCERN TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WITH CANDIDATES FROM THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES ...
I’m not sure what will await me when I land at Ben Gurion airport next month for a long-awaited return visit to Israel.
On April 17, two days prior to the Beginning of the Passover holiday, Judy Plotkin, a reader of the Winnipeg Jewish Review, noticed a sizable green spray painted swastika in the...
On Sunday, May 1st, 2011 Shaarey Zedek Synagogue will be dedicating our very own Holocaust Scroll (Hebrew: Megillat Hashoah), the only one of its kind in Canada.
[Editor's note: Mira Sucharov has won a 2010 Rockover Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism from the American Jewish Press Association for this piece on the March of...
For 60 years Camp Massad has been offering children ages eight and up the opportunity to participate in creative and Jewish themed programming in an extraordinary unique, nurturing and fun-filled atmosphere. Now children a little younger can have the opportunity to experience the magic of Massad
[Editor's note: Bernard Harrison is the E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah and Emeritus Professor in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. He is a...
In the Baltic States and in Eastern Europe, where post Soviet narratives of nationhood are being written, there is a temptation to emphasize the crimes of the Stalinists and to de-emphasize the crimes of the nationalists.
Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore recently told Winnipeg Free Press columnist Dan Lett that “there will be no permanent exhibits” in the Canadian Human Rights Museum...
I can believe that the world is against us. If you are a student of Torah, then all you have to do is read the book of Deuteronomy and it is clear that, under certain conditions, Israel will suffer...
Editor's note: The following is a response written by the Ukrainuian Canadian Congress to the Open Letter by over 100 International Scholars Re : the Holocaust gallery,...
Like a bad meal that keeps coming back on you, the drama surrounding Toronto’s Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) continues to make headlines.
[Editor's note: David Frum wrote this article "Do Jews Hate Palin" in 2010, but I think it remains timely today. The Winnipeg Jewish Review is reprinting this article...
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) has sent out a postcard to select Canadians that appears to depict Jewish backers of a prominent Holocaust gallery in the Canadian Museum...
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The Ukrainian Canadian Civil liberties Association and theUkrainian Canadian Congress have bene campaigning against
Much has been made recently of a survey undertaken by Nanos Research on behalf of the Canadians for Genocide Education and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The UCCLA’s opposition to the planned content for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is well known, if somewhat poorly factually grounded.
On March 31, 2011, I received an Open Reply From Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, research director for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association in response to my Open letter to him: The Canadian Museum For Human Rights.
The League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada has monitored and reported on hate-motivated incidents directed at the Jewish community in Canada for twenty-nine years.
Well, another year has passed and I have several more grey hairs for a variety of reasons none of which have anything to do with Passover. Nonetheless, the idea of cooking for Passover always seems...
[ The following articles/letter written by representatives of Canadian Jewish Congress are being reprinted below] Holocaust changed how we see the world By Eric Vernon [...
As the Jewish Heritage Centre’s 6th annual speaker in its Sol and Florence Kanee Distinguished Lecture Series, political commentator David Frum will speak to the topic “Is Time Running Out for Israel.”
He wakes up wet lying on a stone for the night brought dreams of death, His body, shriveled so thin that you can see his every movement of breath. He looms in the darkness looking for a reason for...
At the end of March, as this year’s Passover holiday was approaching, the Palestinian Authority honored the terrorist mastermind responsible for the 'Passover Massacre' which...
The first Limmud Festival of Jewish Learning organized by the Jewish Federation and the Rady JCC was one of the best community programs I have ever been to—hands down. It is a program that I can easily see as only growing in the future, and I am pleased to endorse it, and whole heartedly recommend that those who didn’t attend it this year mark it in their agenda for next year.
Editor’s note: The following Open Letter printed below was written in protest of a conference organized by the Canadian
David Frum is the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada’s 6th Sol and Florence Kanee Annual Distinguished Lecturer. Previous speakers were historian Sir Martin Gilbert (The Jews of Arab...
[This article was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press, April 2, 2011] Who would ever imagine that in 2011 Canadians would be arguing about whether or not the Nazi extermination of over...
[Editor’s note: Jonah Mozeson is studying law at the University of Manitoba. He previously worked for the Government of Canada for four years.] I am thankful to the Winnipeg Jewish...
Canadian Jews should not vote for Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Harper’s federal Conservative Party has made no secret about its efforts to win Canadian Jewish votes. The...
GWEN SECTER LIVING CENTRE PRESENTS LADIES LUNCH AND LEARN Monday, May 2, 2011 – noon “The Jews of Ethiopia” – Lola Baral Monday, June 6, 2011 - noon...
[Editor's Note: A Jewish Professor Michael Marrus at University of Toronto has given an interview to the National Post published April 5, that certainly undermines the proposed content of the ...
The following is the beginning of an aritcle by Paul lungun, staff reporter, Canadian Jewish News, March 31, 2011 NEVILLE RAISES JEWISH REFUGEE ISSUE IN PARLIAMENT Following the 1947 United...
The Canadian Jewish News has an article dated April 4, by JENNY HAZAN, reporting from Israel, about our very own Manitoba Special Rep Mel Lazareck and his recent Activities in Israel: TEL AVIV...
Ottawa – Canada’s oft-criticized rejection of the tainted United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone Report, has been vindicated.
As Canadians, it is not only our right, but our responsibility to participate in the democratic process and have our voices heard.
Faye Rosenberg Cohen, Planning Director of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, raised this complex question in her discussion session at Limmud Winnipeg on March 13, 2011. And it deserves more consideration than the one hour permitted that day.
A POLITICIZED MUSEUM by Lubomyr Luciuk, Professor, political geography, Royal Military College of Canada. First Posted: Apr 01 2011 on www.themarknews.com The Canadian Museum of Human Rights focuses...
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I am writing this in response to your article in the Winnipeg Free Press on March 25, 2011 regarding the content of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, entitled “Museum...
Here's a new article by Charles Lewis, March 31, 2011 originally in the National Post about the results of the Nanos poll being relied on by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties...
