Dr Raz Somech spoke to an audience of about 35 people, including about a dozen Jewish high-school students from Machon Madrichim, on February 2, 2011 at the University of Winnipeg orgnized by...
Preparations for the Jewish National Fund’s upcoming Negev Gala honouring Christine Melnick are in full gear, as JNF has confirmed that Honourary co-chair of the event...
According to the website of the Ukranian Canadian Congress, on February 15, 2011, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress met with the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage, to discuss the...
An article by James Adams in the Globe and Mail 'on Feb. 14, 2011 outlines the growing protest over the specific zone regarding the Holocaust in the plans for the Canadian Jewish...
Gray Academy is hosting the annual Asper Cup Natonal High School Debate on Sunday Mar. 6 and Monday Mar. 7. This event provides an opportunity for students from all over Canada to participate...
****If you are interested in learing more about this scholarship to study in Israel, click here: http://www.jewishfoundation.org/scholarshipguides.html The Joel Weinstein Memorial Scholarship at the...
Last month (January 25), President Obama gave his second State of the Union address to Congress and the country.
"No one knows what the future in Egypt will bring…even columnists for the New York Times don’t know."
I can say with much certainty that completing four and a half months of intensive Hebrew learning ranks in the top 10 greatest challenges I have faced, and I’ve had a share of challenges in my...
I wanted to refer readers to an article that Pesach Benson in Commentary magazine has written entitled "How about a Bahraini Apartheid Week. Benson refers to...
In January 28 2009, I attended a conference on the Middle East put on by the University of Manitoba, where Louis Safi , a Islamic academic originally from Damascus was on a panel with Erez rotem,...
Winnipeg’s Maxim Berent, who is the president of Hillel, was one of 20 male Jewish students from North America who attended a Conference in New York put on by Aish...
[Editor’s note: The following is a reply Bill Narvey sent to the Rabbis who were the lead signatories of the Jan. 27, 2011 open letter in the Wall Street Journal. If...
[Editor’s note: The following is a statement released by the Ukranian Canadian Congress on February 8, 2011 ]
The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg will be unveiling their new logo this week to help create a stronger visual identity and raise greater public support for our mission of helping Jews in need. The...
[Editor's note: Yacov Fruchter will be one of several speakers coming to Winnipeg as part of Limmud:Festival of Jewish Learning on March 12-13. A listing of other out of town speakers...
I am approaching the milestone birthday where you are considered old by the young and young by the old. It is the age against which all future aging is noted. “Oy! She got old” is...
Many political players and observers have been discussing Israel’s recent social tensions using the language of shame. When 39 Israeli rabbis issued a letter urging their fellow citizens not...
Margaret Park School’s Hebrew Language/Culture Celebration Program for kindergarten to Grade 6 is having its Open house/Information Evening for kindergarten on February 24...
It was a very blustery, snowy cold day here when Tu’Bishvat celebrations took place in Winnipeg on January 23. Although I searched for blossoming almond trees, like I remember seeing...
A statement from Gail Asper addressing the issue of the Ukrainian Famine and Internment regarding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights was published in the...
This article was first published on Monday January 31 in the Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=205978 TORONTO – The World Council of Israelis Abroad held its...
An event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and in commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 was held in the Berney...
Attending the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in New Orleans was, for me, very personal. As many readers will know, I worked in New Orleans for five years at the Jewish...
Beth Shalom Synagogue is a key institution in Edmonton’s vibrant Jewish Community. We are 300 families strong and a member of the USCJ (Conservative) movement. We require an Executive Director to work closely with our Rabbi and synagogue Board.
As part of our mandate to promote tolerance and social justice at all levels of society, FSWC is committed to helping students advance these values through the funding of scholarships at both the...
Every year at about this time, radical Islamic students--aided by radical anti-Israel professors--hold an event they call "Israel Apartheid Week." During this week, they try to persuade...
I’m a little leery to declare publicly that I’ve been under the weather. This hesitancy stems from that fact that I know for sure my Mom reads my articles religiously and if she...
Dov (Dubi) Shlenger became the new director of Machon Madrichim, a Jewish leadership development program for students ages 15-17 as of September 2010. (info re Machon madrichim is at the...
Tthe Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) has just opened a new Western Canada office and hiried a Regional Director who is establishing a permanent offcie in...
A great thing about having a four year old is piggybacking on their preschool curriculum. This year they are studying distilled versions of the ethical teachings of Pirkei Avot. A recent lesson came...
If you were offered an opportunity to change your life, live abroad, meet new people and travel, would you take it? If you were able to be part of history, would you?
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost htree daughters and a niece when the Israel Defense Forces fired shells at his home during Operation Cast Lead filed a massive damages claim against the...
In the just released annual Wiesenthal Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1 2009- March 31, 2010) Canada received a...
From time to time there has been discussion in our community about whether the Combined Jewish Appeal (CJA) should scrap the venerable “two-line pledge card.” In 2009,...
Editor's note: This article below was published in the Jerusalem Post on Monday January 24, 2011 at http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=204937. It has been...
A new official student group on campus entitled Students Against Israeli Apartheid has recently been formed on the University...
Kalil Adar, Director of the Forest Department of the Northern Region of the Jewish National Fund, who actively battled against the largest fire in Israeli history, which claimed 44 lives, visited...
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section presented over 200 books that were collected by its members to Carpathia School on December 10. These books are to be distributed to each child.
Links relating to Israel and the Middle East are now live on our website in the links section. Click here to see them. It has taken many many hours to assemblel these links, and though there...
The Canadian Friends of The Hebrew University (CFHU) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will honour business leader and local philanthropist
According to an article by Myron love in the Canadian Jewish News published on December 16, 2010, “David Salita, a member of the fundraising committee [for the...
Editor’s note: Elliott Leven, a Winnipeg lawyer in private practice is also a Manitoba Human Rights commissioner, who published an article in Canadian lawyer on August 21, 2008 about human...
Last month, Friends of the Earth-Middle East, [FEME]a cross-border environmental organization with representation in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, offered a new model for...
The case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks who has been dogged by allegations of sexual abuse against children, but never charged with a crime will be the subject matter of part of an episode in a documentary...
In recent weeks the Canadian Senate has passed its version of a bill targeting states that sponsor terror financing. The legislation, known as Government Bill S-7: the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, was the result of five years of strenuous labor by a grass-roots lobbying group the Canadian Coalition Against Terrorism (C-CAT).
