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Its concert is still five months away, but the Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble has already exceeded its corporate sponsorship goals, and donors are stepping forward in big numbers to make their...

WINNIPEG - Jim Carr, MP for Winnipeg-South Centre, issued the following statement in response to last night's threat at the Rady Jewish Community Centre:   I strongly condemn the...

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(Dr. Medoff is the author or editor of 16 books on Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust.)     The events of recent weeks have revealed a surprising abundance of self-proclaimed...

On Sunday, March 5th at 9:00 a.m. at Winnipeg Limmud 2017, Leslie Emery described what it was like growing up in a family with multiple faiths and how she balances this in her own life. ...

Life can be tough! When young people find a partner, the one they hope to share their lives with, do they choose wisely? Is there real caring and commitment, or just the flush of youthful enthusiasm...

http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/two-ontario-jccs-evacuated-bomb-threats

  To kick off Limmud Winnipeg 2017, Rock the Shtetl and Friends played to an almost full house in the Berney Theatre on Saturday night, March 4th, 2017.   For the first time, The Toronto...

Ori and Noam are two young boys who shared a lot in common. Both suffered a very difficult childhood, darkened by the poverty of their single parent families. Both boys faced an uphill struggle in...

Anyone who has ever read a book by celebrated Israeli novelist Amos Oz, probably will be interested in the film about his  childhood "A Tale of Love and Darkness" which  came out...

It was only once we were standing inside the gas chamber that I wondered if we had made a terrible mistake. We were following the itinerary. Get on bus. Drive to Auschwitz. Tour the blocks....

Individual Entrees Roast Chicken $14.50 Accompanied by seasonal vegetables and a starch au jus Beef Brisket $14.50 Slow roasted beef brisket with homemade gravy, accompanied by seasonal...

Had my beloved father been a plumber, a car salesman, an insurance agent, doctor or a lawyer, my life would have been dramatically different. Why?  The other professions don’t attach any...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-long-awaited-condemnation-trump-says-horrible-anti-semitism-must-stop/

  http://www.timesofisrael.com/citing-anti-semitism-uk-university-nixes-israel-apartheid-week/  ...

 This year Winnipeg Jewish Community’s marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a program that took place on Thursday, January 26, at the Berney Theatre, sponsored by the...

Asper Jewish Community Campus | 123 Doncaster | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada Limmud, or “learning” in Hebrew, is back in Winnipeg for its 7th year! We invite you to join us on the Asper...

Montreal, QC – On Monday, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs condemned calls for the destruction of Jews by an imam officiating in Montreal’s Islamic Centre Al-Andalus. In at...

Jaron Rykiss shared his stories and tips about being a JewTuber at Limmud Winnipeg 2017 on Sunday March 5, 2017 at 2:45 p.m. He discussed how being Jewish influences what he creates and...

Mental health is an issue that affects about 1 in 4 Canadians making the concern both pressing and personal for all of us.   Tali Aziza Robinson will present Employing Spirituality and Jewish...

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-02-16/trump-netanyahu-and-the-road-to-middle-east-peace

http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-shouts-down-ultra-orthodox-reporter-who-asks-about-anti-semitism/

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Dershowitz-Trumps-one-state-comment-a-ploy-to-pressure-Palestinians-481850

http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/A-view-from-the-frontlines-480829

About 70-80 people gathered  for a vigil in Wolseley February 12  in response to a recent antisemitic incident that occurred in the neighborhood, as well as hate crimes that have occurred...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-gaza/  

    By: David Bedein, Director, Center for Near East Policy Research [Editor's note: This article has been written in light of President Donald Trump's recent sale of weapons to...

Earlier this month Chris Melnick, a former NDP Cabinet Minister saw a large swastika drawn into the snow, along with the words "F--k Jews,"  in Winnipeg's St. Vital...

    For the 50th anniversary of  the re-unification of Jeruslaem, I thought I would publish the recipes used by Mark Twain , the famed author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom...

[Editor's note: M. Flatow, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored...

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/mideast-rules-for-jared-kushner-1487031262

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/When-Netanyahu-slept-at-the-Kushners-and-other-media-tales-of-Trumps-Jewish-confidantes-481486

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-asper/izzy-asper-bernier_b_14635690.html  

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/canada-must-respond-to-unsafe-america/

Carli Rothman will present “Dirty Little Secret: Addiction in the Jewish Community” on Sunday March 5th at 4:00 p.m. at this year’s Limmud Winnipeg at the Asper Jewish Community...

Things seem to be way out of control these days. So many of the things we used to take for granted in our lives now seem topsy-turvey. There used to be a right and a left, liberal, conservative,...

Ex- Winnipegger Allan Rosenbluth and his band join Shayla Fink and Kinzey Posen in Rock the Shtetl and Friends Concert on Saturday, March 4th at 8 p.m. at the Asper Jewish Community Campus....

Of the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts, which, in their present form, are almost exclusively targeted at...

South Carolina Governor Nikki R. Haley, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be the new U.S. Ambassad0or to the United Nations, is not only a known and established friend of Israel. She is also...

The Whipping Man  Winnipeg Jewish Theatre May 4 – 14, 2017 By Jane Enkin Jane Enkin Music and Story at janeenkinmusic.com   “Home is the place where, when you have to go...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada's Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) today issued a statement of solidarity in standing with Quebec mosque shooting victims and their...

Dear Community Members, We were horrified to learn of the idious attack on Muslims and the mosque in Quebec City. We have reached out to our contacts in the Muslim community in Winnipeg and have...

This story is hackneyed with retelling, but I will tell it anyway. There is this story of the teacher who gave his students a test. Each one received a sheet of paper with a black dot in the middle....

       In a break with all recent practice at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power Friday merely abstained on a U.N. Security Council Resolution critical of...

   In what has become a regular feature of its annual Holocaust commemoration, the United Nations opened the first of two exhibits on less-known aspects of the Holocaust, this one...

  The much-vaunted (and much-feared) Conference called by the French in Paris for January 15th was—so it was rumored—a simple, anti-Israel plot. It would convene, produce and pass...

 The United Nations’ new Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, in his first major address outside the U.N., spoke this past Shabbat at New York’s Park East Synagogue. In...

Several  neighbours have  responded to a recent ugly antisemitic incident that occurred in Woleseley  by working collaboratively to produce and distribute a poster with a Magen David...

http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/ezra-levant-fights-two-libel-suits-anti-semitism-allegations

Dear Community Members, I wanted to address two incidents that occurred in the last week, here in our local community and in Israel. As an organization and community we condemn the anti-Semitic,...

Editor’s note: Sara McCleary writes a weekly column for B’nai Brith Canada. She often writes about antisemitism. This week’s column, however, is different as she...

A story of Return My journey as a B'nei Anousim One's journey of discovery of identity has many colors and types, but the inward soul will always cry out for truth. Such is my story of...

    Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky: "Absence of dialogue with Diaspora Jewry is a serious threat to the State of Israel." Professor Michael Walzer: "The concept of...

Join us for an evening of songs and stories under the twinkling night sky as we explore the significance of Rosh Chodesh in Jewish Life.    Saturday, January 28 at 7:00 p.m. Manitoba...

RMTC January 5-28 2017 Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux Original Concept and Direction by Floyd Mutrux Inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins...

 What was the most telling moment for Israel in 2016? It’s neither knife-welding Jihadists in the streets in the opening months of 2016, nor the stab-in-the-back from Obama at the UN at...

‘Depraved Indifference’ in the UN Security Council Resolution The latest betrayal of Israel is potentially lethal in making Jews trespassers and criminals on their own land. The shameful...

(Dr. Rafael Medoff is author or editor of 16 books about Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust) On the heels of the United Nations condemnation of Jewish settlements in what it calls...

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Jared-Kushner-reportedly-fail-to-include-Israel-bond-holdings-in-financial-disclosure-499771

  (Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 16 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history.)     Albert...

Note that the he student who tweeted "puncha  zionist" in the article below has a Jewish father and a half -Jewish mother...

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-7-most-awkward-moments-from-Trumps-Israel-trip-493738

http://nationalpost.com/g00/opinion/robert-fulford-if-the-palestinians-care-about-peace-why-do-they-pay-salaries-to-terrorists/wcm/90543713-e074-47b4-a176-685e4f9c6f67  

http://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/im-muslim-criticism-political-islam-cant-conflated-islamophobia

Trump’s ‘Outside-In’ Approach to Israel-Palestine Won’t Work Right Now

Publié par Jean-Patrick Grumberg le 13 janvier 2017 http://www.dreuz.info/2017/01/13/israel-is-the-legal-occupant-of-the-west-bank-says-the-court-of-appeal-of-versailles-france/ Reprint or...

http://www.cjnews.com/culture/new-israeli-show-fauda-is-gripping-gritty-real

http://www.timesofisrael.com/fleeced-by-israeli-binary-options-firm-canadian-man-commits-suicide/

Making Choices During December in 2016, one of my grandsons chose to end his life. Suffering from a deepening depression, and other difficulties, despite the efforts of parents, companions and...

  Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech today was a failed attempt to defend the indefensible.   Contrary to Secretary of State Kerry's address today, the United Nations...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-saved-israel-from-targeted-strike-by-obama-at-un-official-in-jerusalem-quoted-saying/  

Friends, As I write this note, I am pleased to tell you that your Jewish Foundation’s endowed asset base has grown to $107 million. It’s a remarkable accomplishment for a community...

Finding Your I   What was your growing up story like? Do you even remember? Maybe this will help! We emerge from childhood scrambling to make some sense of the world around us. If we are...

Truth be told, we all take many things for granted in life. It’s often when they are removed, missing, or become routine, that we stop and realize just how precious they are to us.  ...

John Bolton is looking forward to great relations between Israel and the United States. The former U.S. ambassador to the UN, said that President-elect Donald Trump “is not going to let other...

The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Branch is proud to announce that Rabbi Alan Green, Senior Rabbi of Shaarey Zedek Congregation will be the...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical  music Alan Menken book and lyrics David Spencer director Austin Pendleton       Director Austin Pendleton learned from the...

Dear Community Members, With a recent trip to Israel still fresh in my mind, I would like to focus on what has transpired over the last few weeks. We have watched in horror the devastation...

    Debates involving left wing versus right wing approaches to Israel and Jewish issues are so omnipresent that they can become stale, even to those who are highly interested in Israel...

http://forward.com/news/355975/ivanka-trump-sparks-kugelgate-by-grabbing-jamie-gellers-broccoli-recipe/

  I walked by this bunker shaped monument designed by a British sculpture Rachel Whitehead in Vienna's Judenplatz (Jewish square), and to be very honest I did not understand what the...

  About 200 people attended the annual Kristallnacht commemoration event held in the Berney Theatre put on by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, which featured the music of composers whose...

    by Rhonda  Spivak       Ten Israeli students with two Israeli teachers arrived in Winnipeg between October 19-30 as part of the P2G (Partnership 2Gether)...

    When Shimon Peres, the beloved President of Israel, passed away recently , Sid Halpern remembered that Peres  had a Winnipeg connection.     As Halpern told the Winnipeg...

Rady JCC's Tarbut Festival of Jewish Culture 2016, West End Cultural Centre, David Broza Concert, November 13, 2016   Tarbut is amazing – we have the opportunity to hear artists who...

  NEW CEO OF ISRAEL BONDS CANADA : WE VALUE OUR WINNIPEG INVESTORS AND HOPE TO COUNT ON THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT     by Rhonda Spivak Raquel Benzacar Savatti has become the first...

  Canada's first Klezmer group, Finjan will  return to play with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra [WSO] on November 26  at the Concert Hall in what promises to be an unforgettable...

Fill it up, drop it off and pick up a new BLUE BOX!    In the ongoing saga of the small Blue Box and the “Big” Jewish dream, the Blue Box has its honoured place, a proud symbol...

    When my Bride and I lived in Dublin, Ireland, we were strangers in a foreign land. Our refuges were the synagogues of the tiny Jewish community. It was there we found instant...

For Immediate Release                       ANNUAL KRISTALLNACHT PROGRAM 2016 This...

An enthusiastic full house audience enjoyed the first concert of Rady JCC's Tarbut Festival of  Jewish Culture 2016, David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana Roots.  Buchbinder brought...

The Cyril “Zeke” Marantz “Z’L” Manitoba Jewish Athletes Wall of Honour at the Rose and Max Rady Jewish Community Centre is currently accepting nominations for the Wall...