With his eye on the White House, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas breezed into Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt to wow some 1,100 New Yorkers with his pumped up support for Israel. The...

          Who can cut through Henry Kissinger’s thick Germanic accent? Maybe that’s one reason Richard Nixon tape recorded in the Oval Office — so he could...

  The first reports on demographics of the Winnipeg Jewish community are now available. With thanks to Charles Shahar of Montreal who negotiates for data, works with advisors to refine...

Tarbut was bursting with energizing music this year.   Carole King The focus of Tarbut's Music Producer Karla Berbrayer's annual tribute to a Jewish musical artist was singer songwriter...

  Winter has arrived, and so has the time to drop off your blue boxes at one of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) collection events to ensure you receive a tax receipt in the new year....

http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2014/11/the-pew-survey-reanalyzed/    

  This week’s terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue struck at the core of jewish community and identity. Now is the time to reaffirm the sanctity of our synagogue and stand shoulder...

        As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book The World Turned Upside Down,...

    Dispatch From the Editor's Desk, Nov 1964 when was Two Months Old    Sorry GENTLEMEN, Beverly Rosen is OFF the market. Sarah & Morris Rosen and Dorothy & the late...

        MONTREAL, QC – Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) is delighted to announce that Claudia Goldman, of Vancouver, has been elected as CHW’s twenty-second National...

  Note from Editor of Winnipeg Jewish Review: [IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER AS A CIVILIAN WORKER FOR 2-3 WEEKS ON AN ISRAELI ARMY SUPPLY BASE, CONTACT SAREL CANADA. Free accommodation, kosher...

        Amos Guiora, an Israeli born law professor and child of Holocaust survivors gave an interesting and thought provoking talk advocating for legal sanctions to be applied...

          In response to today’s deadly terrorist attack on worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)...

Dear Friends,   As we near the end of November, the holiday of Chanukah will soon be upon us. As the CEO of the Jewish Federation, I invite the entire community to take part in a community-wide...

          A Manitoba Chamber Orchestra season does not often feature a flute soloist, but its next concert is an exciting exception. On Wednesday, November 26th, in...

          http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-shrinking-jewish-middle-and-how-to-expand-it/

          “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would...

  On Wednesday November 26th, Variety ,The Children's Charity of Manitoba  will be holding a very special event,  Opening Night of   FIDDLER ON THE ROOF...

    [Editor's note: This announcement was sent to parents of Gray Academy]         We are pleased to announce that Judi Price-Rosen will be the Director of...

      Fox News special correspondent Geraldo Rivera has a Star of David on his left fist. He got the tattoo in 1974 while reporting on the Palestinian terrorists who slaughtered 22...

        Are our lives like an onion, in essence? We issue from the earth, growing from the inherent spark of life within us, adding layers, substance, until we come to full...

          [Editor's note: I have often wondered what it was that contributed to Gail Asper's fortitude and unstoppable drive to turn her father's dream of a...

  November 14 and 15, 2014 8:00 PM Centennial Concert Hall 555 Main St Winnipeg, MB Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate: Clans from Lowak Shoppala’ (Fire and Light) John Williams: Three...

      Winnipeg – October 7, 2014 – The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and The Asper Foundation (TAF) signed a memorandum of understanding today that...

      The atmosphere was warm and engaging as over 100 students, gray Academy and Brock Corydon teachers Jewish Federation Staff and others came together on October 20 at the Shaarey...

  [Editor's note: Kane Rooks has a Master’s Degree in Counter-terrorism from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and currently lives in Israel.]   As the  ISIL...

    Thinking about what happened this past month's terror attack in Ottawa takes to me back to my undergraduate days. I went to University in Israel in the mid...

  Ivan Berkowitz was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee MEDAL for giving significantly to our community. He has branched out into the art world. Berkowitz is making...

Michael Greilsammer Saturday, November 15, 8:00 p.m.   Member $30 / NonMember $33 / Student $20 (with student card – limited seating)    Music Lover’s Package $80 Member /...

  Hello there! As part of a class project for my MBA program, my group is exploring kosher meat options for the Canadian market. Could you help us out by taking this survey, and forwarding it...

http://www.cjnews.com/canada/pro-palestinian-motion-mcgill-fails

    Honour our fallen heroes and veterans on Friday, November 7th beginning 7:30 PM at Shaarey Zedek.   The evening will include poems read by Gray Academy students in English,...

“When you see the enthusiasm on the children’s faces as they watch the birds, then you understand exactly why we’ve established this site,” said Larry Vickar during a visit to the observation point.

    http://online.wsj.com/articles/terror-in-ottawa-1414018627        

      Welcome to this RARE two bedroom, one bath condo located in the lovely lakefront development of Gimli Shores, built in 2006.     Asking Price $224,900.    ...

    As yet more evidence that academics are regularly able to engage in what George Orwell sardonically referred to as “doublethink,” “the power of holding two...

    Don’t you just hate it when you arrive at your point of departure for a planned getaway only to find that the conveyance that you contracted for at great expense and...

  Yesterday was another beautifully sunny day on the west coast of Canada, the country where, when we cast our dice, we came up with a winning number. We came here, of advanced years, and...

(The authors are Members of the Board of the Religious Zionists of America.)   International donors this week praised the leaders of the Palestinian Authority as moderate peace-seekers who can...

  Winnipeg, October 13, 2014 - The annual KRISTALLNACHT commemoration service and program will take place earlier than usual this year: Sunday, October 26, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. in the Berney...

  In 1970, when she was 13, Lynda Fishman's  mother and two sisters were killed in an Air Canada plane crash that killed all 109 people on board.  On October 23, Fishman, who...

              Lawyer Jack London, who is the facilitator for merger talks between Shaarey Zedek and Etz Chayim congregations told the Winnipeg Jewish...

  The Combined Jewish Appeal launched a successful kick-off at the Journey to Churchill exhibit at Assiniboine Zoo on September 8, 2014.   The ambitious goal of the campaign, which is...

  I am an experienced executive who has directed large teams, managed multi-million dollar budgets and leads the delivery and implementation of complex programs and service delivery. ...

The opportunity you have given me to be your voice at City Hall is something I am very grateful for. Allowing me to work for you, your family and your neighbours in the River Heights/Fort Garry Ward...

Dear Friends, As we move from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, I want to first take this opportunity to wish everyone in the community a happy and healthy New Year, and if you are fasting, a safe fast....

From Copenhagen, Denmark Global Next Research Group www.globalnext.org   Are you happy? Would you know it if you were? How would you actually define happiness? The founding fathers of America...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Operation-Protective-Edge-Direct-donations-to-compensation-for-businesses-in-the-south-373033

                    I met Bob Freedman for coffee just after he had recently retired as CEO of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg for 28 years at...

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/how-iran-scammed-the-us-out-of-a-nuclear-deal/381014/

  JCFS has established a new speaker series called "Can We Talk About...." As part of the important mandate of JCFS in supporting individuals and families who are dealing with...

ADULT LEARNING FOR WONDERING JEWS Can a 4,000 year-old text speak to a 21st century world? Why do I have more questions than answers? If people are working so hard to repair the world, why is it...

(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, www.WymanInstitute.org)     Much has been written about America's failure to bomb...

    It wasn’t pure chance that former Israeli President Shimon Peres was seated next to Google chairman Eric Schmidt. There they were, at an ADL dinner where national chairman...

Taz Stuart’s Top Priorities for your River Heights – Fort Garry Ward include: To represent and proudly make the daily services that the City of Winnipeg residents expect to receive for...

Call for Research Participants in Winnipeg, MB: “Family Caregiver Navigation through Organizational Systems and Policies”   Are you currently providing care to a family member who...

  Gray Academy was featured both locally and nationally on radio (CJOB), television (CTV  & Sun TV Toronto), in the newspaper (Winnipeg Free Press) and on-line (Huffington Post) as a...

  Sunday October 19, 2014, 3 p.m. Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, 561 Wellington Cres, Wpg MB   The Winnipeg Singers has long been regarded as one of Canada's finest choral...

    [Editor's note: Priel Lisak, is a Grant Park High School student and participant of the Asper Foundation Human Rights & Holocaust Program, 2013-2014]     Being a...

SARAH SOMMER CHAI FOLK ENSEMBLE   DANCE. MUSIC.  LIFE.   AUDITIONS   On Sunday, October 5, 2014   Seeking Dancers, Singers, and Musicians   (guitar, bass, keys, melody...

      Under the shadow of the recent Operation Protective Edge conflict, Boys Town Jerusalem high school students visited the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in preparation for the...

THE HISTORY OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS IN CANADA INSPIRES       WORLD PREMIERE AT CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET       The Indian Residential School system...

                Michel Aziza, who co-chaired  with Mel Lazareck the recent Jewish Federation of Winnipeg's Solidarity Mission to Israel  between...

        The Torah explains that on Yom Kippur the High Priest would set aside two goats. One would be sacrificed to G-d while the other, after the High priest confessed all the...

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/09/15/nathan-jacobson-businessman-with-conservative-ties-succeeds-in-withdrawing-guilty-plea/  

      Can you see through all the static/chaff clouding the view of your life to get a clear picture of where you are, where you have been, and most important, where you want to go?...

      PROCEEDS FROM THIS YEAR’S HIGH HOLIDAY APPEAL WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARDS       BUILDING BOMB SHELTERS FOR COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL     KKL-JNF...

        Ticket sales approach 90% of target       On Monday, October 27, over 800 people will gather at the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg to celebrate the 50th...

                Joe Oliver, Canada's finance Minister was interviewed by the Winnipeg Jewish Review at Folklorama's Shalom Square Israel Pavilion,...

All Grade 9 Jewish students NOT enrolled in the Gray Academy of Jewish Education, together with their parents, are invited to attend a General Information Meeting on The Asper Foundation Human...

    Sean Penn, the actor acclaimed by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach as a hero for providing 60,000 people with housing after the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010, was honored by the rabbi for...

      Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is pleased to announce the interim team of Kayla Gordon, artistic director, Karla Berbrayer, marketing and development, and Tracy Goltsman, production...

  It is cloudy and cooler today in our “promised land” western outpost at ocean’s edge. It has actually rained. Not only that; it rained during the day, almost the whole day....

  Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s wry observation that some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could have thought of them, an open letter by “teaching assistants,...

    This past June in order to comply with Canada's new anti-spam law,  the Winnipeg Jewish Review sent out e-blasts asking subscribers to provide written consent to continue...

      Winnipeg business person and community philanthropist, Marty Morantz, has announced that he will seek election in the Charleswood-Tuxedo seat for Winnipeg City Council.  ...

      Ah the BRAIN- such a broad terrain and tricky to navigate through. So much so, in fact, that Dystonia often doesn’t even show up on its map. Getting to the dystonia...

                On August 18th this summer I went to B'nai Brith Camp to see the Advanced Camp [AC] Homecoming ceremony.       My son Dov,...

[Delivered May 21, 2014]   Rabbis, Kavod award recipients and friends,   I want to thank the community and the Jewish Federation for this honor.  The Sol Kanee award is a major...

http://www.cjnews.com/news/orthodox-woman-rallies-christian-support-settlements

    Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making...

High Holy Days 5775  Congregation Etz Chayim 123 Matheson Avenue East     Schedule of Rosh Hashanah and   Yom Kippur Services   Selichot Service,  Saturday,...

               Lauren Bacall, a leading lady of Hollywood’s golden age died on August 12 at 89 in her home in New York. Although she...

    Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi recently died in Boulder, CO, at the age of 89. He spent the last half of his life in the U.S. as a revered scholar, teacher and spiritual...

    Winnipeg. August 18, 2014.  A varied group of 19 from all walks of life has come together to demonstrate solidarity for Israel at this time of great stress during what we hope...

  [Editor's note: Below are statements by Joyce Bateman, Conservative Member of Parliament in Winnipeg South -Centre and by Jim Carr, Liberal Candidate in that riding.]...

  I arrived in Israel on Sunday. With about an hour to go in the Air Canada flight to Tel Aviv, the stewardess announced over the public address system that we would be entering Israeli air...

{Editor's note: I agree with David Horowitz's editorial below entirely]       http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-livid-with-israel-hamas-cant-believe-its-luck/

        Even as he entered his hundredth year, Irwin Corey remains an irreconcilable opponent of a Jewish state. Furthermore he doesn’t want you to call him a Jew. He says...

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/canada-sold-millions-in-military-technology-to-israel-since-2010?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=rss&utm_campaign=outbraincanada1

CISA Online Academy CISA has launched its new online academy with a course on The Holocaust, 1933-1945. The course examines the Holocaust within the context of modern German history and as a...

Remarks delivered at a commemorative ceremony, 18 July, 2014, Asper Jewish Community Centre,...

      How can we put an end to the deaths and injuries of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza?  Outsiders may think that there is not much to be done, that those on the...

http://www.jta.org/2014/08/05/news-opinion/united-states/london-times-rejects-wiesel-ad-against-hamas-child-sacrific

  In between dashing in and out of my protected room in my apartment this past month, I have had time to reflect on how  inspiring it is  to see how this country really comes...

  Without a doubt, the most powerful moment on Rosh Hashanah (maybe even the entire year) is the sounding of the Shofar. After the blasting of the Shofar we recite the “Hayom Harat...

      Dear Members of Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD),   We are very concerned, as we know you are, with the continuation of the war between Israel and Hamas, which has resulted in...

I have been thinking a lot about my friend Danny while I have been in Israel during Operation Protective Edge. Danny lives in a small town in New Jersey but his heart is here in Israel. He remembers...

As a long term volunteer, almost full-time since 2009, with the Bridges for Peace Food Distribution Centre, the current conflict with Gaza is not the first time we have had to...