Marla Aronovitch has joined the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba as its Grants & Distributions Officer. Marla has extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector, including the Jewish community....

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/82-attacks-in-four-years-on-german-synagogues/

Congregation Etz Chayim invites you to an educational weekend with special guest Marina Nemat Friday, November 1st & Saturday, November 2nd Marina is the author of Prisoner of Tehran and After...

Sarah Morry, registered dietician, talked about organic eating and basic tips for healthy eating at a joint program between National Council of Jewish Women of Canada Winnipeg Section and Rady JCC...

Given the positive response to CISA's first community course on the History of Antisemitism, the Institute will be offering a winter course for the community on the Holocaust that will run for...

Editor's note: I will have more to say about the Pew Study and what I think it will mean for Winnipeg's Jewish community in future editorials. For those who have not already read about the...

I went to the Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence’s first annual Harvest Dinner and Pie Auction on Wednesday, September 25, where a delicious assortment of pies was up...

The Manshield Construction Heart Health Luncheon was an initiative of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences in collaboration with Myles Robinson Memorial Heart Trust and the St....

Community leader Earl Barish was recently presented with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in February 2013 at a ceremony in Toronto. Barish was recommended for the Medal by B'nai...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-nazi-planner-shaped-early-israel/

Today my Bride got a new frypan. She was as excited as if I had just bought her a beautiful new necklace, a beautiful jewel for her finger, some highly prized article of designer clothing or...

The Winnipeg Jewish Review received the following statement from Etz Chayim re: possible merger with Shaarey Zedek: Due to the aging demographic issues that are becoming more significant and common...

ADS COUNTER RECENT ANTI-ISRAEL POSTERS (Vancouver, Canada, October 9, 2013)—StandWithUs [SWU] is placing posters in ten TransLink stations to counter the misinformation of anti-Israel posters...

[Editor's note: We are doing a series of articles examining the state of synagogues and synagogue life in our community in order to look at issues of community strategic planning and to try to...

Dear Friends,   As many of you may have heard by now the Islamic Regime has opened up a new Iranian consulate office in Montreal.  The office has operating since September 21st, in an...

National Council of Jewish Women of Canada held its Triennial Convention at the Hotel Fort Garry this past weekend October 4-6.  The Winnipeg Section of NCJWC hosted delegates from Toronto,...

Growing up in Winnipeg, I do not recall ever taking much interest in my appearance. I wore anything that came to hand. My history is replete with stories of myself in a state of apparent disrepair,...

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      THIS EDITORIAL is being written in light of Rabbi Green's Yom Kippur Sermon to Integrate the Gray Academy Judaics Program with synagogue life. Let me start from the...

Toys are a universal language. Young or old, all over the world, everyone likes to engage in play. So when Twyla Motkaluk’s daughter was little and came home wanting a dreidel, she wanted to...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/dayan-pushed-pm-meir-to-consider-using-nuclear-weapons-in-1973/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/hobby-lobby-jewish-boycott-steve-green_n_4032295.html

[Rabbi Ellis is responding to Rhonda Spivak's Editorial re Rabbi Green's Sermon, Gray Academy and Jewish Holidays which can be found...

The Cyril “Zeke” Marantz “Z’L” Manitoba Jewish Athletes Wall of Honour is currently accepting applications. Pick up your form at the Rady JCC Membership Desk or call...

http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/183757/quebecs-kippah-problem/

        Patti Cohen Shares Her Experiences From Two Melton Israel Tours 125th Anniversary Israel Melton Tour Monday, January 13 to Thursday, January 23, 2014 Chaired by Ruth...

Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives (Studies in Antisemitism). Edited by Alvin Rosenfeld. Published by Indiana University Press, 2013. pp.576   (Review reprinted courtesy of the Jewish...

The Most Extensive Campaign Ever For Hebrew Literacy  Winnipeg, MB, October 2, 2013 – This fall, members of Winnipeg’s Jewish community will gather to participate in the only...

On Jewish holidays (such as Yom Tovim for Sukkot, Shminei Atzeret, Simchat Torah and Shavuot), Gray Academy is closed.   In his sermon on Yom Kippur, and in a conversation I have...

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One might have hoped that Obama’s calamitous mishandling of recent Middle East crises, climaxing with his disastrous response to the Syrian use of chemical weapons, would have taught him a few...

[Editor's note: By the end of this column I promise I will tell readers what a " Shiterein" is.)   Over this past summer, when speaking to Marsha Cowan I asked...

  In an exclusive sizzling interview with the Winnipeg Jewish Review (which took place during intermission at the Asper Jazz Series concert M'otzei Shabbat), a warm Dr. Earl...

In 1965, my family began to learn the hard way that heart diseases were BAD.  We lost my uncle who had collapsed in his doctor’s office. The next year my mother was immobilized in...

One of the many nice things about living in Israel is that you get to celebrate two birthdays; one according to the Jewish calendar (aka the ‘religious’/Jewish/Hebrew birthday), and one...

http://www.themanitoban.com/2014/03/israeli-apartheid-week-still-highly-contentious-u-m/19488/  

This article first appeared in Il Nuovo Sole, Manitoba’s Italian Community Newspaper.   The ‘therapy’ factor in what is currently being termed ‘Aromatherapy’ comes...

Canadian commentator Rex Murphy delivered a very intelligent, sweeping, witty, and humourous address in which he intertwined biblical and modern Jewish history to formally launch...

As Toronto attorney and documentary producer David Matlow prepared to visit Chicago for the U.S. premiere of his and director Eli Tal-El's film, My Herzl, at the Chicago Festival of Israeli...

[Editor's note: I fundamentally agree with Rabbi Green about the need to inegrate the Gray academy program with the synagogues, and I have done an interview with head of school Rory Paul in this...

Are you thinking of going South for the winter? Many Jewish Winnipeggers like to travel to Mexico (usually on a non-stop junket), but twenty-five year old Winnipegger Jamie Michaels got...

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In his Yom Kippur Day sermon, for which I was present, Rabbi Green of Shaarey Zedek synagogue indicated that, in his view, in order to revive synagogue attendance, the curriculum at...

President Obama’s abysmal failure to provide leadership during the Syrian crisis represents a turning point in the Middle East and has paved the way for President Putin’s Russia to...

“I have always been active donating my time to the world of politics and to causes that I thought were worthwhile,” Sharfe said modestly when interviewed on August 13, 2013.  ...

Rabbi Green, Chazzan Mass, fellow congregants, I would like to take this opportunity tonight to bring you all up to date on the progress of discussions that our Board has been having with the...

[Editor's note: I recently sat down woth MP Joyce Bateman to talk about her recent visit to Israel, which she summarizes in the article below. As Bateman said of her trip, "I was WOWed by...

US servicemen are being photographed holding signs to hide their faces. This new form of Anonymous protest is addressed to their president. “I didn’t join the navy to fight for al-Qaida...

I hadn't visited the Shalom Square Pavillion in a long time since I am usually in Israel when it is put on. But in this the 44th year of Folklorama, I did get a chance to attend the event, which...

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            In 2010, when I first visited Germany I purchased a  Lonely Planet  guide to Germany (2010) and in my snippits of spare time I have been going...

Athletes Cori and Zach Odwak, whose parents are Harry and Lisa Odwak, both scored big at the 19th Maccabiah games in Israel July 17-30, 2013.   Nineteen year old Cori Odwak helped...

The hills were alive with the sound of music and dance in the fairytale like setting of the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on August 25th as over 1000 lovers of song, dance, music, story telling and...

  http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/03/24/obamas-netanyahu-comments-reflect-ugly-double-standard-for-israel

We are pleased to advise that several new people have joined the Federation staff. We welcome Sheldon Kaminsky to the Campaign department whose focus will be connecting with smaller donors and...

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...

Recent chemical warfare developments in Syria bring to mind the study, written by a US investigator, Kenneth Timmerman, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and...

  A group calling itself the Palestine Awareness Coalition has started a hot debate by posting ads on 15 Vancouver buses and a Vancouver SkyTrain station. It says it will place similar ads in...

Most people, it’s probably fair to say, strive to be the best at what they do, or at least fantasize about what it would feel like if they were. Perhaps an unlikely category of profession, in...

Sid Bernstein, the producer and promoter who started the British invasion to America with the Rolling Stones, Beatles and Herman’s Hermits, told me how he was introduced to the world of music....

In Jerusalem on July 29th, I met with Colonel Mordachi Ba-Ron now 84,  to discover the roots of the Arab refugee issue. Mr Ba-Ron was a platoon and company commander in the Givatti Brigade...

We are pleased to announce that Daniel J. Goldhagen will deliver CISA’s 2014 Shindleman Family Lecture on May 12, 2014 at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. Dr. Goldhagen is a former Harvard...

SHANA TOVAH TIKATEIVU: WISHING YOU A HAPPY AND SWEET NEW YEAR- 5774   Sid and Esther Halpern Israel and Maylene Ludwig and family Dr. Brent Schachter and Dr Sora Ludwig and family Danny and...

Everybody should have an Uncle Barney! Especially if you are a kid growing up in a world of adults who don’t really notice you. Oh, they notice you, but not really. Sure, there may be a chair...

The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Branch is pleased to announce that Joseph J. Wilder, Q.C. will be the 2014 Negev Gala honouree. The official announcement...

[Editor's note: Below is the complete press release the Winnipeg Jewish Review received from the Simkin Centre recently]   Kathleen Klaasen steps down to accept new position...

Harriet Goodman Hoffman follows her Winnipeg grandfather’s travels from his Yiddish book, Collected Writing I met with Harriet (Hart-nickname) Hoffman, author, lecturer and professional...

                http://www.timesofisrael.com/warsaw-uprising-brought-to-life-in-stunning-color-film/  

Milli Flaig Hooper #19 on the Wave Tour 28 Hawthorne Ave Matlock, MB turn East at Ford Road off Hwy 9 204 389 4134 paperfifrildi@gmail.com Open year round by appointment or happenstance  ...

When Dr. Mehmet Oz, the renowned daytime television personality, came to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Shabbat table, he was surprised at all the sugary food.  “Shmuley, how can you do...

Dr. Chatterley will be teaching a new course for the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism this fall entitled Introduction to the History of Antisemitism. Composed of nine classes, the...

Gail Asper, CJA Campaign Chair, says this year the CJA aims to raise $ 5.8 million, which is 200,000 more that was raised last year than last year’s target. "We’ve already secured...

The Editor received th efollowing email Sunday Aug 18, 2013:   It is with a great sense of loss, but also with gratitude for his service, that I announce that Rabbi Larry Pinsker will be...

B'nai Brith Canada received reports of multiple Swastikas being spray painted in and around the Saint Boniface area of Winnipeg. According to the B'nai Brith offices in Winnipeg,  the...

Last Friday morning, on Israel's popular morning radio station, Reshet Bet, broadcaster Aryeh Golan interviewed Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin about the latest demands by the European Union...

When it comes to succession planning regarding passing a family business from one generation to the next, it's not always easy to preserve both business performance and family harmony. At times...

I read with interest the opinion piece by Jennifer Menashe (Heltay) “Marrying In or Marrying Out”.  Ms. Menashe decries intermarriage and expresses nostalgia for a simpler era...

    [Editor's note: My alternative title for this article was "Will Justin Trudeau put the "High" into "High Holidays?]   Just in time for Rosh Hashana,...

The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Branch is pleased to announce that this year's High Holiday Appeal Campaign will support the Ayalon Trail in...

(Winnipeg, August 12, 2013) - Hebrew University of Jerusalem will honour local community leader, philanthropic executive and business person Moses (Moe) Levy with the prestigious Scopus Award at a...

[Thius peice was written last year and is being re-run now] Another Rosh HaShana has come and gone. It’s one of my favorite holidays, certainly in the top fifteen or so; before Pesach, but...

[This artice first appeared in  Middle East Matrix http://mideastmatrix.wordpress.com/  ]   Writing in Mondoweiss, Alex Kane argues that, based on the most recent poll by the...

            Beginning this fall, Congregation Shaarey Zedek will host The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School which will feature both beginner core courses and scholarly...

My husband Michel is a realist yet, at the same time, a dreamer who without fanfare goes about setting both long-term objectives and short-terms goals for himself.  As for me, well not so...

CLOSER THAN EVER September 18 – 21 at 8:00 p.m. Sept. 22 at 2:00 p.m. Shaw Performing Arts centre (at The Forks) Founded by Donna Fletcher and Reid Harrison in 2000, Dry Cold has produced some...

The UNRWA education for half a million students focuses on teaching the “armed struggle” to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine, under the promise of “right of return” and...

A dinner ticket to attend the Jewish National Fund of Toronto's Negev Dinner paying tribute to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper is $400 (includes a $200 tax receipt). Anyone interested in...

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to be in Israel as a special guest of the Centre for Israel & Jewish Affairs and even though it was not the first time I travelled to Israel I found the trip...

Winnipeg, August 7, 2013-- The decision of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR), as stated by Dr. Clint Curle, Head of Stakeholder Relations, to exclude material on the establishment of...

Our community needs daycare, and with the collapse of the Rady JCC-Herzlia synagogue deal, it doesn't appear that anyone has answers as to where the daycare could be housed.   We have...

Some people in the community have suggested that Brock Corydon School may be the place to locate a new day care for the Jewish community, in light of the fact that the proposed Rady JCC...

At Al-Quds Day rally near Toronto, Palestinian community leader urges two-minute warning before violence begins   http://www.timesofisrael.com/canada-activist-calls-for-shooting-jerusalem-jews/...

[Editor's note: The following was published in the Winnipeg Free Press in August 2006, seven years ago].   ISRAEL FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO EXIST   In his article Israel’s bombs...

Share the dream Almost 50 years ago, the Chai dream began with the vision created by Sarah Sommer. What began as eight dancers has turned into an all encompassing entertainment experience including...

I have spent time at the  the  ancient Philistine city of  Gath with my children , a  where Dr. Haskel Greenfield (now the co-ordinator of Judaic Studies at  University of...

High Holy Days at Congregation Shaarey Zedek Teshuvah: Letting Go, Letting Grow For service information, please click here For tickets, please call Rose Mathews at 204-975-3481 or email...

Editor's note: I received an email from Dan  Hiuni who sent me the news release about his play in New York and added "What's really freaky though, is that the play is about/a...

In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslims Lands by Martin Gilbert. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Toronto, 2010 Let's be frank, for many reading history can be boring! But, if...