Mazel-tov and yasher koach !!!!!!!!!!!!! Hillel Taylor

To the Editor, Shalom and thank you! Michael Shrimpton, United Kingdom

To the Editor, Thank you. Keep the newsletter coming. Terry Miller, Habitat For Humanity, Winnipeg

May 27, To the Editor, Hi, I am a young Jewish Winnipeger entrepreneur, now living in Vancouver, but continue to follow your articles through your website. We offer a very unique service that no one in canada is offering to help doctors help their patients. It is...

To the Editor, Please advise your readership of  THINK-ISRAEL website which  features essays, analyses and commentaries that provide context for current events in Israel. Bernice Lipkin Editor, Think-Israel.org

May 20, 2010 To the Editor, Please advise your readers that they may sign a petition against the construction of a 13 story Mosque and Islamic center 600 feet from Ground Zero. Here's the link to the website with the petition. By 9:00 May 20, nearly 10,000 people had...

May 20, 2010 To the Editor and Readers of the Winnipeg Jewish Review, I read  your story about the swastikas. The vandals who did this are trying to frighten Jews and in not taking credit for their actions they’re also cowards. Where I live, I've had...

May 20, 2010 To the Editor, Hi Rhonda- we are enjoying your paper- good luck and yasher koach.  Rabbi Charles and Lori  Grysman, Toronto

May 21, 2010 To the Editor, I enjoy reading your articles which are very interesting. Regine Frankel, Winnipeg

May 21, 2010 To the Editor, Have this dynamic duo, of Fink and Maslowsky, produced a CD? and if so, where could it be ordered from?? As a recent ex-Winnipegger, I have heard both women sing, but not together. I would have attended the concert had I still lived there....

May 21, 2010 To Rhonda Prepes and the Editor, Yashir Koach - Rhonda Prepes; Thank you so much for the great coverage and story about our survivor David Shentow. He is among our most courageous and most revered persons - our survivors. Thank you...

May 23, 2010 Dear Ms. Prepes, As David was reading read your excellent report in the Winnipeg Jewish Review about his presentation to University of Manitoba students, I observed that he was deeply moved. The details of David's experiences in captivity, included in...

May 23, 2010 To the Editor, I note Engler’s comment that Netanyahu and the Montreal police cancelled the speech! Was he not challenged ? For the record, I had dinner with Netanyahu that night and cannot forget how incredulous and disgusted he was that he was...

Welcome Addition To the Editor: I've been very glad to see the WJR; it's a welcome addition for Jewish Winnipeggers.  I'm happy to read the WJR and look forward to its continuing success. Best, Rebecca Walberg

May 26 To the Editor, I read your review. Professor Haim/Hayyim Beinart, z"l, (1917-2010) published over 300 books and articles on the Jews of Spain. During the Mandate, he was an Irgun combatant, head of the Jerusalem counter-intelligence unit (nom de guerra:...

June 1, 2010 To the Editor, Hi Rhonda. Just a point of correction. In your review of the second Mameloshen concert, the accompanist for the Gray Academy students was Shirley Goltsman, not Shirley Brown. There was a mistake in the program but MC Kinsey Posen announced...

To the Editor, The IDF  (Israeli Defense Force or Israeli Army) has a video  on U Tube explaining what's going on re; the floatilla , but U Tube wants to remove it by using the excuse as not too many people are logging in. Please let your readership know so...

June 1, 2010 Dear Editor, I really enjoyed your recent “Pick”. The story of  perfect strangers coming to your aide via “unsolicited advise” truly rings the bell with me. I have experienced  a similar attitude amongst  ...

June , 2010 To the Editor: Thanks for sending me your review every week. It’s always interesting and useful information, and I must say, I marvel at how you pull together so many articles on a weekly basis. Cheers, John Danakas Director, Public Affairs,...

June , 2010 To the Editor, Hi Rhonda, best wishes on your wonderful endeavor.......good broad material, local and external, very saliant..... Morty Simcoe, Winnipeg

Dear Editor, With regard to Rhonda Spivak's article decrying Israel Apartheid Week, I submit the following: It's funny. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed more than 1,400 Palestinians (400 children), maimed more than 5,000 and left 20,000 homeless after Israel's...

May 19, 2010 Dear Mr. President, Earlier this year, your Secretary of State told a forum of Jewish leaders that ‘sometimes friends need to tell each other the hard truth’.  Well Mr. President, allow me, on behalf of my people, to return the courtesy....

May 19, 2010 To Rhonda Prepes and the Editor, The article on the Holocaust Symposium held at the University of Winnipeg was wonderful. Arthur Blankstein, Winnipeg

May 17, 2010 To the Editor, Please notify your readershipthat Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee [CJPAC] is charting a course to grow as a national organization, including expanded membership, offices, and activity across the country. CJPAC  has expanded...

May 4, 2010 To the Editor, I found your site by chance for the first time. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I love your site. Shosh Kohen

May 5, 2010 To the Editor, Please advise your readership that a proposal for a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East is seeing new life under the Obama administration. Mr.John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN, said that President Obama’s consent to discuss...

May 5, 2010 To the Editor, Have you seen this? http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19027&Itemid=86 Mezuzah-bearing cabbie back in court six tickets now totalling more than $1,600 for carrying a photo of the late Lubavitcher...

May 6, 2010 Shalom. How can we publicize our Sar-El program in your excellent Winnipeg Jewish Review? Jack Bordan, Acting President Sar-El Canada www.sarelcanada.org

May 7, 2010 To the Editor, I appreciate and enjoy the quality of your publication.   I look forward to your publication becoming a paper edition. Thank you. David H. Diamond, Winnipeg 

May 7, 2010 To the Editor, I am enjoying reading the articles in the Winnipeg Jewish Review. I do wish you the best in your efforts. Thanks.  Steve Schaefer, Winnipeg

May 7, 2010 To the Editor, Good report on Engler.  His version of the Concordia events is spurious.  I was in the crowd, pushed and harassed by Engler's friends.  He becomes a great advocate of free speech, when it is convenient.  I very much liked...

May 8, 2010 To the Editor, Thank You for the Winnipeg Jewish Review. Always try to keep current with Winnipeg Events. Arnold A. Zeal. MD, FACS, FAHA

May 9, 2010 To The Editor, With all respect to Elie Wiesel, the tension between the Obama administration and Israel is not so easily erased.  It is fueled by the President's acceptance of the Arab narrative and his avoidance of antagonizing those whom...

May 9, 2010 To The Editor, Thanks for your new web-based newspaper . Looks good.  We have subscribed.   Your readers  might enjoy a link to the NFB documentary "The SoCalled Movie" that has just been released at the  "Hot Docs...

May 12, 2010 To the Editor, I want to applaud the WJR  for it’s bold and incisive reporting on issues of hatred and bigotry on our society. It is not “ok”, for a homeowner to leave a swastika painted on the side of their house with the word...

May 14, 2010 Hi Rhonda, I just read your article and wonder how Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center can assist. It’s an unusual story- most people are eager to get rid of Nazi graffiti. Please contact me to let me know how we can help. I look forward to hearing...

Dear Rhonda, I want to send my congratulations  on the Winnipeg Jewish Review. I hope the Winnipeg community gives all the support that you deserve . Good Job. Keep it up ! Shosh, Argentina

To the Editor, Please notify your readers that The Grant & Wilton Coffee House is  presenting a  Del Barber Concert Saturday 7:30pm May 29. Doors open at 7:00pm, Tickets $10, Tel: 488-0207 Grant & Wilton Coffee House is 1077 Grant and Wilton, across...

To the Editor, Took me while to find you at www.winnipegjewishreview.com. Nice look. John Farber, Winnipeg

May 10, 2010 To the Editor, Today, Israel was admitted as the thirty-second member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). " Israel’s acceptance into the prestigious European-based economic organization is an extremely...

To the Editor, Congratulations on your editor-ship. I used to see your name in the Jewish Independent lots. I was also a regular contributor there for awhile. Feel free to take a look at my blog from Tel Aviv: http://afreemaninisrael.weebly.com/afreemaninisrael.html...

To the Editor, April 10, 2010 I would like to inquire about advertising our international program of engineering on your paper and website and maybe also writing an article Please send me details Ariel Ariel Geva, Managing Director Technion International School of...

To the Editor April 6, 2010 On March 3rd inst. we inaugurated a new Blog - JCWatch - designed to combat anti-Israeli sentiments expressed in the London Jewish Chronicle's Blogs section on the Internet.   Our first task was to monitor the frequency of anti-Israeli...

March 12, 2010 Hello Rhonda, Would your newsletter place a public service announcement regarding our Meals on Wheels Kosher meals delivery program?  We deliver hot noon meals into the North and South ends of the city. Volunteers deliver the meals which are...

To the Editor, January 14, 2010 Hi Rhonda, Congratulations again! How exciting and a job well done. Keep up the great work . Baillie Burke

January 17, 2010 Congratulations on being picked up by the Jerusalem Post for this article Rabbi G. Brojges, Winnipeg

January 15, 2010 Rhonda, Congrats on the  bulletin and your good work. Howard Liebman

To the Editor, I especially enjoyed Michael nathanson's piece about Caryl Churchill's "7 Jewish Children" I knew she was the playwright (1st female) at MTC's festival, but had no idea MTC was performing this horrid horrid anti-semetic diatribe. Nathanson is...

To the Editor, January 14, 2010 Hi Rhonda, Congratulations again! How exciting and a job well done. Keep up the great work . Baillie Burke

January 14, 2010 To the Editor, The WJR’s that I have seen show good journalism.  Congratulations on being picked up internationally on this important story. I wish you continued success. Bob Kopstein