https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-has-10-military-bases-in-syria-two-near-israel-border-analyst/

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  Take your seats early when you come to Once. The gloriously high-energy pre-show jam is definitely one of the highlights of the play. We hear Irish fiddle tunes, comic songs and...

  In the spirit of Tu Bi’Shevat, the Jewish National Fund invited the community to join in a celebration at Desserts Plus on Saturday, February 3 with entertainment by Ron Paley and Keith...

  How cool would it have been to have fled Egypt in cars that drive themselves - equipped with GPS and likely carrying drones to take out the enemy closing in on foot. Huh? The parting of the...

Adas Yeshurun Herzlia is proud to announce that Dara Horn will be the featured lecturer at the first annual Adas Yeshurun Presents event on May 6th.

Rabbi Micah Buck Yael from St Louis spoke at Limmud Winnipeg 2018 on the topics of "Sacred Language for Diversity and Inclusion" and "Gender diversity in Jewish Texts."

Reprinted from Times of Israel   Several of my students have recently asked me if there were Polish death camps. And I have explained to them: no, there were no Polish death camps. There were...

“I didn't enter the music world to change it – I didn't know I was changing it.”   Philip Glass spoke on the opening night of the Winnipeg New Music Festival 2017,...

Rev Peter Fast, Deputy National Director, Bridges for Peace Canada, spoke at Limmud Winnipeg March 11 on the topic of Bridging the Gap between Jews and Christians: The...

Israeli born and raised Yaron Traub, will be in Winnipeg on February 23-24 conducting the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) concert, "A Night in Spain" with french guitar virtuoso Gaëlle Sola, at the Centennial Concert Hall.

Gray Academy of Jewish Education and the Kaufman Silverberg Library present:   Anne Frank – A History for Today January 22-February 18, 2018 Kaufman Silverberg Library Open to the public...

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/New-CIA-documents-show-Jordans-King-Hussein-had-lovechild-with-American-Jewish-actress-533557

https://www.timesofisrael.com/yair-netanyahus-night-of-debauchery-revealed-in-bombshell-recordings/

[Editor's note: Award Winning Author and Acclaimed Lecturer Dara Horn will be speaking at Adas Yeshurun Herzlia Synagogue on May 6, 2018. Dara Horn's The Rescuer was published by Tablet magazine and is a Kindle bestseller]

Tarbut 2017 concerts   review by Jane Enkin   janeenkinmusic.com   The Rady JCC's Tarbut Festival challenges Winnipeg audiences in many  satisfying ways.  The...

    Twenty five year old Hartley Mendelsohn, who was born and raised in Richmond Hill, Ontario arrived in Winnipeg about four months ago to begin his work as the new Young...

    It’s wonderful! Temple Shalom launched its capital campaign on November 5th, and results have been outstanding. We raised $400,000 in the first month!   Long-time...

    On January 2, 2018  President Donald Trump threaten cutting off  aid to the Palestinians unless they come back to peace negotiations, and  at the same time appeared to...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/how-one-census-2016-question-halved-canadas-jewish-population/article37463269/

[This interview was conducted this past September when Marsha Cowan was completing her term as CEO of the Jewish Foundation and is being published now] Winnipeg Jewish Review: You were the...

    At the beginning of November, Jessica Cogan "had the incredible opportunity" to travel to Israel for the Coast to Coast Partnership 2gether meetings (P2G). ( P2G is a...

    The Winnipeg Chapter of StandWithUs Canada, ( recently formed by Louisa Raizman, Don Aronovitch, Steven Schipper and Judi Shuste) is thrilled to announce that at least seven...

  In the summer of 2014, Laila Mushko and her family fled their village in Iraq after it was overrun by ISIS. With only the clothes on their back, they fled to Mount Sinjar and then, ultimately...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-jerusalem-israel-1.4436251

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Why-Trump-is-right-in-recognizing-Jerusalem-as-Israels-capital-51728  

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-A-credible-peace-plan-at-last-516997  

  Joan Nathan is a beloved American cookbook author and educator. She came to speak at  the Rady JCC's Tarbut Festival k about her 11th book, King Solomon's Table: A Culinary...

As Jews, we are a resilient people with thousands of years of history of endurance. We have overcome obstacles so monumental that others may question how have we survived thus far. Recently, I...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-demand-poland-explain-naked-game-of-tag-in-nazi-gas-chamber/

    The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg is adopting the Winnipeg Blood Centre and has committed to recruit new donors and fill appointments to help collect blood during a crucial...

  Press Release: CIJA alarmed by spike in hate crime targeting Jews Ottawa, ON—Today, Statistics Canada released a summary report of police-reported hate crime for 2016. In response,...

  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/movies/barbra-streisands-misty-water-colored-memories-in-a-netflix-concert-film.html...

Come celebrate the third night of Hanukkah with us!

  I, like many of you out there, am the beneficiary of a demographic trend consequent on advancing technology in the health field. Being well beyond the traditional three score and ten, with...

  Temple Shalom, Winnipeg’s only Reform synagogue, is thrilled to announce that its Reaching Out Reaching Up Capital Campaign launched on November 5, 2017 is well underway:  ...

A prominent Winnipeg radio station has suspended one of its programs after B’nai Brith Canada highlighted its promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories.   CKUW 95.9 FM, the official...

  The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba has announced the appointment of Tara Fainstein as their incoming Chief Executive Officer. She will assume responsibilities on January 1, 2018, and will...

  Incentives for terror include having your house rebuilt after its demolition. Best real estate deal in the Middle East. Imagine the scene. A teenager wakes up in a crowded family home in...

  Murray Palay recently completed his term as the national chair of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University. He is a trailblazer in that he is the first national chair west of Ontario in...

          The Cyril “Zeke” Marantz z”l Manitoba Jewish Athletes Wall of Honour at the Rose and Max Rady Jewish Community Centre is currently accepting...

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Nazi-posters-found-at-Canadian-university-514197

  Winnipeg Jewish Review: Can you tell me how the campaign is progressing?  Are you finding that there are donors who are receptive to increasing their pledges because they understand how...

  I’ve been around the block a time or two, so I’ve seen some of the great cities of the world. Except China, those massive cities that they have made almost uninhabitable with...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/world/europe/germany-anne-frank-train.html

HANDFUL OF U.S. OFFICIALS HELPED RESCUE JEWS FROM HOLOCAUST, NEW BOOK SHOWS     WASHINGTON, D.C.- A new book is shedding light on a handful of U.S. government officials who helped rescue...

The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel suffered a significant defeat at the University of Winnipeg (UW) student union vote that occurred on October 25....

In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from student anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott,...

Dear Community Members, I would like to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for your generosity to the Federation’s Combined Jewish Appeal. As of today, we have...

Rabbi Matthew Leibl and Rabbi Anibal Mass both received their Rabbinic S’micha at a ceremony in New York held July 1st 2017 at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute (JSLI). On Nov 3-4, they...

  In the minds of many, Poland is associated with one of the darkest chapters of Jewish history. It is a country that saw nearly a millenium of Jewish civilization and history wiped away in an...

Two years ago, the fiftieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate (Latin for 'in our Time') was celebrated, and was the occasion for three weekly lectures held at Mary Mother of the Church, in Fort...

Tribes by WJT at the Berney Theatre Oct 21 thru 29 2017 Oct 26 show will be ASL interpreted   Tribes is an exciting show; I was deeply moved on opening night. The play concerns Billy, a...

It was in June 2010 that Dr. Catherine Chatterley established the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) and shortly thereafter gave the CEO of The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba a...

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/by-discouraging-criticism-of-islam-m103-could-make-it-harder-to-combat-anti-semitism

  Rady JCC and Canadian Magen David Adom present:   ISRAEL'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE MAGEN DAVID ADOM RESPONSE TO MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS: Get a glimpse of the day to day work of...

The Women's League of Congregation Etz Chayim is having a fantastic art auction on Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:00 pm at Congregation Etz Chayim, 123 Matheson East, Winnipeg.   This...

The Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, Manitoba Chapter has been providing free dental service for Holocaust survivors since March 2016 as part of the the Alpha Omega-Henry Schein Cares Holocaust...

Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland To Speak in Winnipeg October 31-November 2, 2017     Rabbi Michael Schudrich, who has served as both Chief Rabbi of Poland since 2000 as well...

(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 17 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust.)     The Canadian...

I recently watched the interesting 2014 German movie Das Zeugandas, The Witness House, now on Netflix and recommend seeing it (The film is in English, with some German). It is a...

    The Eichmann Show  a docudrama that was part of the BBC’s Holocaust Memorial season in 2015 is now on Netflix and is worth watching.     In...

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/government-hastily-removes-holocaust-plaque-that-doesnt-mention-jewish-people

    The co-chairs of the Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) addressed a group of former Manitoba MLAs (AFFMLA) at a luncheon at the Canad Inns South on Sept 13, focusing on the AJD's mission...

  This worthwhile German film with English subtitles tells the true relatively unknown story of   Fritz Bauer, a German Jewish lawyer who survived the Holocaust and returned to...

Subject: Can We Talk About…Anxiety Jewish Child and Family Service will launch the next installment of the speaker series Can We Talk About…on Thursday November 2nd, 7:30pm at Shaarey...

Isadore “Nick” Yudell (1916-1943) was a young Jewish photographer from rural Manitoba who documented the world around him during the Dirty Thirties, and whose work aspires to a modern...

  "The old City [of Jerusalem] is the most highly protected place in the whole of the Middle East," said  Mickey Rosenfeld,  Israeli national  spokesman to the Foreign...

  This past month, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the world was witness to something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime: white supremacist anti-Semites uttered words, and...

The JNF High Holiday Rabbi’s Luncheon was held on September 12, 2017 at Bermax Caffe.    The Synagogues participating in our campaign this year are: Congregation Etz...

    How do you imagine “Our Canada”?  That is the question that artists of the WAVE Interlake Artists’ Studio Tour have been asking themselves this year.  You...

In response to an anti-Semitic incident that occurred on social media between students of Shaftesbury High School, 95 year-old Holocaust survivor Cantor Moshe Kraus from Ottawa spoke at the school...

(Winnipeg, August 28, 2017) Houston - more than 6.5 million people…the fourth largest city in the USA has been sorely tested. The devastating rain and the catastrophic flash flooding...

As the High Holy Days approach, I find myself reminiscing of days gone by. Gathering with my Mom and sisters at my Grandparents home to prepare for the celebration with friends and family following Rosh Hashanah services.

Why is it so hard for us to shake off the past and begin anew? Why do we feel that we have to maintain a loyalty to past errors and mistakes? Is it ego? Do we have to romanticize the past to give it...

Chaired by Michael Silver, JNF Manitoba & Saskatchewan Vice President, the extremely successful event drew attendees from all ages and backgrounds: young families with children and newcomers. We...

The Nathan Morantz Z"L Memorial Golf Tournament organized by the Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the proceeds of which were directed to The Negev Autism Center at the...

  In Hebrew, numbers can be represented by letters, the ancient way the Hebrews communicated numbers before the Arabic script was adopted. Among many Jews the number 18 is a favorite because...

Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Nimrod Barkan, told a gathering of  politicians , and professional and lay leadership of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg at a breakfast meeting that there...

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Reflections on Being Old   by Simone Cohen Scott   I find it so much more dignified to say I'm about to become an octogenarian, than to say I'm turning eighty.  Some people...