December 20, 2012 The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs welcomes Canada’s decision to list the IRGC’s Qods Force as a terrorist entity Toronto, ON - The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs strongly welcomes today's announcement by Minister of...
December 18, 2012 Hi Max, Not sure if you remember me. I am Izzy and Evelyn Shuster's daughter. Molly sent me your Winnipeg story. It is a great story. It seems as we get less young that who we are and where we came from holds a far greater importance than...
December 17, 2012 I remember those days......I was born on Stella near Andrews then to Flora & Andrews....then my parents bought a home on Lansdowne... Just off Main (220).....The Deluxe theatre just across the Street.........Yanks just down the street at...
December 17, 2012 Hi Max, Winnipeg is always a leader and around 1998 David Cohen (whose father Moshe was executive director of Peretz School) developed an endowment book of life project where people were inspired to write their stories for future generations...
7 Dec 2012 As we approach ‘International Human Rights Day’ on December 10th, B’nai Brith Canada marks the 64th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Jewish human rights organization reminds people that this is an...
Nov 26, 2012 To the Editor, I enjoy all the news you report. Keep up the good and interesting work you publish. Irene Marantz
Nov 25, 2012 Rhonda, You've shown the folly of economic dependency on one country. Countries change. You wonder where is the leadership of Pres. Obama. Obama has the leftist view that the U.S. should not be a leader and the Muslim view of hostility toward Western...
RE: Fuel for Thought: Is Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Purposely Trying to destabilize King Abdullah of Jordan by withholding gas supplies?...
Nov 21, 2012 RE: The Story the West has Buried: How Egypt's Moslem Brotherhood has Helped Foment This Week's Riots in Jordan by withholding Gas Supplies Fabulous work, Rhonda. Yasher Koach! Susie Rosenbluth The Jewish Voice and Opinion, NJ
Dear Sir/Madam, I received your email contact address after being sent an open editorial article on the Ukrainian elections by* Askold S. Lozynskyj* and *Adrian I. Dlaboha*. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to *New Eastern Europe*...
Dear Friends, Neighbours and Residents, The River Heights Residents Association's (RHRA's) next meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 at 7:00 pm at the River Heights Community Centre located at 1370 Grosvenor Ave. We are hoping to have volunteers sign...
November 20, 2012 Nice reflection Rhonda! - Paula Havixbeck, City Councillor for Charleswood-Tuxedo-Whyte Ridge A/Deputy Mayor, Winnipeg
To the Editor, Canada has condemned the murder of blogger Sattar Beheshti by the Islamic Regime in Iran. Mr. Beheshti was tortured and lost his life while in custody. He had been charged with "acting against national security on facebook and other...
1 Nov 2012 Beautiful tribute to Carol S Zalik
November ,1 2012 Beautiful tribute to Carol. - S. Zalik
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 14, 2012 Toronto – B’nai Brith Canada today applauded the decision by the Government of Canada on its principled stance condemning the terrorist group Hamas as it threatens regional peace and security. Foreign Affairs...
November 8, 2012 Hello everyone, Here are a variety of important updates for things coming up: U OF M STUDENTS – There will be lunch in the Hillel Room on Tuesday the 13th @ 12:45 PM. U of W STUDENTS – On Wednesday Nov. 14th in the Interfaith Room @ 12:30...
11 November 2012 Dear Community Member: This week's report on the East End Madrassah (EEM) produced by the York Region Police (YRP) is a wake-up call for the Jewish community - and all Canadians. It unequivocally concludes that extreme forms of...
7 Nov 2012 Toronto, ON -The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs applauds the decision by the Office of the Attorney General of British Columbia to lay charges against Arthur Topham for the content of the website, Radical Press. “We have maintained...
7 Nov 2012 WASHINGTON — AIPAC congratulates President Obama on his re-election victory. We look forward to continuing to work with him and his Administration to further strengthen the US-Israel relationship. President Obama has made it clear during the past four...
Nov 1 2012 Hi Rhonda, I just read what you wrote about Carol. Very well written, very moving. Exactly how I remember her. SO SO SAD. Nancy Kelin
Nov 1, 2012 Thank you for capturing the Carol that we all remember! Gayle Charach
Hi Rhonda, I am a producer with CBC Radio here in Winnipeg. I read with interest your editorial/observation about the significance of the Jewish vote in the U-S election, and efforts the two presidential candidates are making to court it. I wondered whether...
Nov 1, 2012 Avrum Pollock : For all the Winnipeggers/Massadnics who live away from Wpg and had the pleasure of knowing Carol, please see this announcement. Baruch Dayan Haemet. Helen Friedman-not a massadnik, but a very fortunate person to have known Carol. may she...
4 Nov 2012 NEW YORK Last week, a group of rabbis gathered at the Jewish Theological Seminary for a dialogue on the topic of Keruv (Outreach), Conversion and Intermarriage. The October 25 gathering was jointly convened by the Schechter Day School...
November 3, 2012 I need the article on the holocaust survivors daughter it is up on the web right now, but I can't get it to print ?. Could you email it to me, with her contact information if possible. (Or send her mine) I'm doing a major speech on survivors,...
November 1, 2012 Rhonda, I too could see the images you recalled of Carol all around Camp Massad. You have written a beautiful piece about Carol and it is so very true that we have lost an amazing human being "far too early". Carol had a huge positive...
November 1, 2012 Hi Rhonda: how nice to be reading my emails while in Peru. I have been travelling thru out the country and it was fun to read about what's happening in town.. Ruth Carol Feldman
October 24, 2012 What a great article. I am US Christian gentile. This is such an eye opener and so full of insight. I totally enjoyed reading it for the enlightening which it brought forth to me. I am a total supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. Michael Payne
Nov 1, 2012 Spivka, That was a beautiful article you wrote about Carol. Thank you. I'm writing my response to you with tears in my eyes. I just came back from sitting Shiva this afternoon at Carol's home. Yesterday I went to her funeral. I would rather have...
29 Oct 2012 Dear Editor at the Winnipeg Jewish Review, Thank you so much for your kind words and for publishing my piece "Polish Jewish Author: On Transmitting Family Trauma to the Next Generation - Born and Raised in Poland I assumed my mother's Holocaust...
Nov 1, 2012 I read with interest your articles about the vote in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and the Jewish vote. Not only have I read these in their original formats in the New York Times and the other publications mentioned, but I also heard Roger Cohen speak at Park...
October 31, 2012 Rhonda You captured some great memories of Carol at Massad. I had the chance to see Carol at the Massad 60 reunion and am so saddened by the news. She most definitely left her mark. Stephen Kushner
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 Hi Rhonda, My name is Josh Tapper; I'm a reporter at the Toronto Star. I'm wondering if you have a few minutes to talk about Nathan Jacobson, who I understand is a friend of yours. He's in a bit of legal trouble...
October 31, 2012 FREE BUT NOT FAIR We had the opportunity to serve as international observers at last Sunday's elections to the legislature of Ukraine, specifically in two of the more troublesome regions of Ukraine: Kharkhiv and Donetsk. Also, we observed in...
October 26 2012 Letter to the Editor: I just read your article about Roger Cohen's blunders regarding Iran. He seems to belong to those journalists who live by the proverb: whose bread I eat his song I sing. I know Cohen from his days as an American Jewish...
26 Oct 2012 Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in a landmark ceremony, the City of Montreal bestowed honorary citizenship on Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish non-Jew who save more Hungarian Jews in four months than any single government...
October 24, 2012 New York, NY, On the eve of a presentation to the United Nations of a misleading report targeting companies doing business with Israel, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to rescind...
24 Oct 2012 Toronto, ON – Over the last two days, more than a million civilians in southern Israel have been the target of more than 80 missiles and mortars fired by the Hamas regime and other Palestinian terror groups in Gaza. At least three workers have been...
October 17, 2012 Hello Rhonda Spivak, I am a reporter for CBC French news in Winnipeg. I would like to speak with you about this email you received that looks antisemitic. Would you be available for an interview this morning? You can...
October 15, 2012 You may know my work as an author since I wrote most of Children of the Holocaust in Canada and interviewed people from Winnipeg but I am now also an epublisher! Plunkett Lake Press (www.plunkettlakepress.com) is devoted to retrieving...
October 14, 2012 My name is Dan Grummett, weekend anchor with Global Winnipeg.I’m looking to get in touch with Rhonda regarding an anti-semitic email reportedly sent to her recently. Please give us a call. We like to do something on this. 204-978-8545 Dan...
October 14, 2012 Hi there, we heard that your publication received an email similar to the posters that have been put up downtown. Could you give the newsroom here a call when you get a chance? Thanks a bunch, Deborah Mensah-Bonsu, Reporter/Weekend...
26 Oct 2012 Hi Rhonda, I hope all is well. I have been asked to write an article on a very tight deadline for the Toronto-based Jewish Tribune newspaper concerning the resurfaced posters that are allegedly anti-Semitic (i.e....
24 Oct 2012 To the editor: With respect to Rhonda Spivak’s critique of Roger Cohen, it goes even further. Last year, Cohen appeared on a Bloomberg television debate with respect to Israeli-Us foreign policy relations. Cohen asserted that the ONLY way to...
October 22, 2012 emptyful Makes a Splash Locally, Nationally and Internationally October 22, 2012 - Winnipeg – When emptyful opened along with the renovated Millennium Library Park, no one quite anticipated the splash it would make. The new...
To the Editor, October 7, 2012 Great article! But no pics of the girls I haven't seen in years! Vanity!!! Lol! Next time go to Kibbutz Ein Gedi guesthouse, my total favorite! Susan Meged On the lighter side:...
October 5, 2012 Hello Rhonda, I just wanted to say how much I enjoy reading the newsletter. It provides me with a lot of insight and in-depth information into many areas that I otherwise would not be able to easily obtain. Although I have been to Israel...
October 4, 2012 To the Editor, Hello, I wanted to offer a Q&A or story idea around a Toronto-based architect who specializes in designing for Jewish schools. Paul Cravit, Design Director at CS&P Architects (csparch.com) worked on the Community Hebrew Academy...
4 Oct 2012 Dear Ms. Spivak, Mr. Tenebom's experience is very similar to mine. I am a published writer, born in post World War II Germany to Jewish Holocaust survivors. Now living in the USA. My books in German about growing up Jewish in Germany won high acclaim but...
