Next Generation

              This past April, we had the opportunity to spend one week in Poland followed by seven weeks in Israel on a program called Alexander Muss High School...

When I arrived in Poland this April on the March of the Living trip I was surprised that the country was so beautiful because the old pictures during the Holocaust that I had seen...

P2G, or “Partnership 2Gether” is an exchange-like program at Gray Academy. For those unaware of this, every year Gray sends a delegation of students to Danciger High School in Kiryat...

Dr. Rania Okby, who became the female Bedouin doctor in the world  upon graduating from Ben Gurion University's medical school, spoke in Winnipeg on February 9 and...

SodaStream was first introduced to the beverage market in the early 1900’s, as a system that allowed buyers to create homemade carbonated beverages. Today, this innovative system has produced...

January 17th was officially allotted as “Raoul Wallenberg Day” by the federal government in 2001, sixteen years after Wallenberg was made an honourary citizen in 1985. A few years ago,...

The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada is proud to sponsor the Mina Rosner Human Rights Award which is awarded annually to a Manitoba student in grade 9-12 who submits the best essay on the...

Amin Jaafari is a top Arab-Israeli doctor, who is exquisitely played by Ali Suliman, in the film “The Attack”. Living a privileged life in one of Israel’s most prosperous cities...

About the  B'nai Brith Essay Contest: Continuing our exemplary commitment to community service, since 2010 B'nai Brith Canada has instituted the B'nai Brith...

  Shachar Dahan (Gr. 11)  tied  for Second Place  in the Senior's category for the Fern Shawna Rykiss Award at Gray Academy. The following is his composition the Last Survivor ]...

Rafi Hoult (Grade 11) tied  for Second Place  in the Senior's category at Gray Academy for the Fern Shawna Rykiss Award . The following is his winning composition. Vienna,...

Nathan Kirshner, a grade six student at Brock Corydon School who is registered to attend the Gray Academy of Jewish Education next year recently hosted a member of Israel's hockey team when the team...

    [Editor's note: Eran Efron is a grade  6  student at Brock Corydon Hebrew Bilingual School. He was born in Israel, and recenty hosted two  children from the Israeli...

  The perception of Israel by the rest of the world was once overwhelmingly positive. The country was seen as the underdog, a miraculous feat of modern times. However, this attitude has...

  The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is immensely complex. The larger conflict can be broken down into many issues, all of which are controversial and disagreed upon within and between Israelis...

[Editor's note; Nathan Kirshner, a grade 6 student at Brock Coydon School has attended a number of "Teens and Tweens' programs put on by the Rady JCC. This past weekend he attended the...

  I attended a wonderful evening of remembrance and renewal where three Holocaust survivors, Max Bornstein, Felix Opatowski and Judy Abrams, celebrated the Winnipeg launch of their memoirs...

Isabel and her parents live in Toledo, Spain during the early 1490's as a devout Christian family. Isabel's father is a well known and respected physician in the court of Queen Isabella and King...

   The 2012 Winnipeg Jazz Festival was a great week of musical  entertainment. I only had the time to go to four of the events, but all of them were extremely good. Here are my...

[The following was written by Erin Minuk, a graduate of the Gray Academy of Jewish Education, for the B'nai Brith Community Service Essay contest this year ] I had just finished Kiddush for my...

I am a grade seven student at the Gray Academy of Jewish Education who noticed that there was a vending machine filled with really unhealthy foods at the Asper Campus. This machine currently...

[This article was first published in the Jerusalem Post] In 2009, thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a fraudulent presidential election that restored Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power....

Strength is an aspiration, a goal and a destination. We all want to be strong people, but most of us struggle with finding the best possible route to our ultimate target. In the last several decades...

Shalom to the readers of the Winnipeg Jewish Review! Shalom to Faith Kaplan, President of the  Winnipeg Chater of Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University--you will probably get a chance to...

[Editor’s note: Dov Corne, a grade 7 student at the Gray Academy of Jewish Education was the youngest reporter (hands down) at We Day on Nov 23. That is a result of his own initiative....

My sister, Roxanne Kirshner, got to go to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers game against the Montreal Alouettes. She is eight years old and it was her first football game and she loved it! This...

  Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. Toronto Argonauts on Oct 28, 2011 Chris Garret was starting at Halfback. The first play of the game was a sack by Bryant Turner from the Bombers. Dominic Picard of...

 [Nate The Great, our new Winnipeg Jewish Review sports columnist reflects on seeing the historic first victory of th re-born Wininpeg Jets, October 17. ]    It was my first...

 Erin Minuk,  daughter of Pam and Earl Minuk, a grade 12 student at the Gray Academy of Jewish Education is this year’s winner of the  Mina Rosner Human Rights...

  [Aidan Fishman is currently studying his second yeqr in Internatioanl relations at University of Toronto] Ever since its difficult birth in 1948, the Jewish State has struggled for its very...

This past May, I had the privilege of participating in the Manitoba Mishpatim program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  This program took 22 law students from the University of Manitoba...

While Western politicians continue to lionize the new-found political freedoms promised by the “Arab Spring” of uprisings from Tunis to Damascus, they will be decidedly less enthusiastic...

Attending the AIPAC Policy Conference was an experience like no other, and I would like to thank the Winnipeg Jewish Review's Editor, Rhonda Spivak for providing me with this opportunity, for which...

Without a doubt, the most dramatic international event in the first half of 2011 has been the wave of uprisings and revolutions that has swept across the Arab world. From Tunisia to Syria and from...

  This is the winning essay by Lexi Yurman from the B'nai Brith Essay Contest 2011.Yurman recieved a $500.00 prize from B'nai Brith for her essay. The editor has titled it. THE BASKETBALL...

I and seven other Jewish students from the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg (Maria Konikov ,Maxim Berent, Seth Morris, Igor Golinkin, Sara Stras,Dalit Leitman, Yuliana Evseev)...

This year the community wide memorial service for Yom Hazikaron held at the Berney Theatre on Sunday May 8, 2011 featured the participation of many former members of the Israel Defence Forces...

The title of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikva” means hope. It expresses the hope of the Jewish people that they would some day return to the land of their forefathers. The song...

Moot Beit Din is a unique Ravsak program that enables students from Jewish high schools around North America to delve into issues of Jewish law through creative engagement with contemporary...

  [Editor's note; Zach Fleisher is a  student at University of Winnipeg. His first article providing political analysis published  in the Winnipeg Jewish Review last June...

Hillel Winnipeg ‘s Annual Interfaith Shabbat on March 25th at the Etz Chayim Synagogue attracted some 60-70 people in attendance, the majority from the non –Jewish  community.

On March 6, 2008, I was surrounded by thousands of other Israeli and American teenagers in celebrating