http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/12/controversial-free-speech-defender-douglas-h-christie-lawyer-for-canadas-most-prominent-hatemongers-dead-at-66/

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-is-dead-scared-of-israel-says-ex-mossad-chief/

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9675/un-obama-palestinians  

[Editor's note: This article is being reprinted with permission form the website fo the American Associates of Ben Gurion University] Jan 28, 2013-Ariel Sharon was brought south to Soroka University...

Larry and Tova Vickar recently invited Rhonda Spivak and I to a very special restaurant that is close to their hearts, the L’Arche Tova Café at 119 Regent Ave. West in Transcona, which...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/11/weve-never-backed-down-from-a-bully-prominent-jewish-brothers-launch-lawsuit-over-anti-semitic-posters/

Reprinted with permission from:http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5384&q=1 AIPAC, the lobby for Israel in the United States, defines itself as an American organization which...

“. . . scholarly devotion . . . for Jews is worship first class . . .”  Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and in Shadow This “scholarly devotion,” which is synonymous with...

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/dna-tests-reveal-hitler-s-jewish-and-african-roots-1.309938

Political analyst Dr. Yoram Peri told a crowd of about 30 people at the University of Winnipeg that “the Israeli left won the [most recent] elections if you count the actual votes (1,890,000...

Editor's note: In January 2013, David B. Harris, a Canadian lawyer with three decades' experience in intelligence affairs, sent me an article he wrote in IPT News, dated December 20, 2012 ...

To our good fortune, a fine teaching couple, Rabbi David Cantor and his wife Kedma Cantor has returned to Winnipeg with their family  this year, and both of them gave sessions at...

  A staff delegation from JNF Canada arrived for a visit to Israel in order to observe at first hand projects that have been implemented with the support of the organization’s Friends in...

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17 Israeli children and 3 coaches are coming to Winnipeg from March 12-19 to be immersed in Canadian hockey. They are students at the Canada Israel Hockey School (located in the Canada Centre in...

There have been recent reports that the Turkish police are “exiling” Iranian refugees to small and unsafe cities in Turkey close to the border of Iraq and Syria. These refugees are...

The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg is coordinating an event for Jewish singles 40 years old and up. This will be the first event in many years for singles in this age group. Federation statistics...

[Editor's note :Something tells me we are going to be hearing more and more about the issue of Palestinian refugees in the future in the context of the Canadian Museum of  Human Rights....

Robin Paisner, a member of Winnipeg's Jewish community, arrived at my door the other day with what was a beautiful bouqet of flowers--not just any flowers, but flowers I could eat! Paisner just...

  [This is part one of Jane Enkin's review of the Limmud Festival March 1-3] Limmud Winnipeg 2013 provided a satisfying taste of learning from many Jewish perspectives. An over-arching theme of...

  Rabbi Shais Taub delivered an inspiring and at times very humourous talk on Jewish spirituality and recovery from addictions  last month before at a well  attended dinner...

Elie Wiesel, the well-known author and Holocaust survivor, described hunger in his book Night, saying, “Bread, soup—these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a...

National Council of Jewish Women, Winnipeg Section members and volunteers bakedhamentaschen for shalach manot packages for Jewish Child and Family Services clients   National Council of Jewish...

What do art and cupcakes have in common? MAWA’s Over the Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party!  This popular annual event returns for its ninth year on Sunday March 17th, 2013, from 2-5 pm....

[Editor's note: Next week I will be publishing an article I have written on  Rabbi Shais Taub's presentation on addictions sponsored by JCFS, JACS and Chabad, which was an...

  At the Limmud Festival on March 3, 2013 at the Asper Campus, sixteen eager participants gathered in the Art Room at Gray Academy to hear Jeanette Kuvin Oren talk about the art of paper...

Academics say they are shocked by a catalog of tens of thousands of ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and death camps set up by the Germans, The New York Times reports...

Former Winnipegger Andrea Schaffer now living in Toronto is on her way to Israel to play for the Women’s Softball Team at the Maccabiah Games beginning July 17th, 2013. She will be joined by...

[Editor’s note—I have carefully tried to sort through the various details here in my report below, and in my view the Rady JCC-Herzlia deal is not a done deal until the Federation Board...

Congregations Shaarey Zedek, Winnipeg’s largest congregation, and Etz Chayim, the second largest congregation, have discussed a merger or building sharing arrangement but, talks are at a...

Winnipeg's Hannah Glinter will be running in the Jerusalem Marathon on March 1st, in support of the Lone Soldier Center in Memory of Michael Levin that aids soldiers in the Israel Defence Forces who...

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Arts/Article.aspx?id=304558

JNF ANNOUNCES ENTERTAINMENT FOR NEGEV GALA 2013   The Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF) – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Region is pleased to announce that Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander will...

Justice Albie Sachs is coming to Winnipeg, all the way from South Africa. His lecture’s title, “Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”   is taken from the title of one of...

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  [Editor's note: Yoram Peri will be speaking on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 12:00 - 1:00 pm Convocation Hall-at Wesley 2W16  (Second Floor) the University of Winnipeg during the Second...

Below readers  can see the Saturday Night Live sketch about Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing at the Senate, a sketch that is very memorable to say the least. It has been s uploaded onto the...

http://www.cjnews.com/canada/toews-seeks-applications-security-funding  

Comedy Night Fundraiser in Support of Shalom Residences Inc. Thursday, March 7, 2013 Rumor’s Comedy Club 2025 Corydon Ave.   Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Show starts at 8:00 p.m.   Come...

[This was written by Professor Deborah Lipstadt on Sunday December 28, 2008. In London for the trial with Holocaust denier, David Irving, she attended the UK Limmud Festival. Since Limmud in...

In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, ADL called for a further review of Senator Chuck Hagel’s record in light of an account of a 2007 speech in which he allegedly said the U.S....

I am looking forward to the Limmud Festival of Jewish Learning on March 2 and 3 at the Asper Jewish Community Campus because it’s a way for me to reconnect with my roots and my identity and...

It’s ‘home away from home’ for dozens and dozens of Jewish older adults who spend many hours of enjoyment with friends old and new. It’s a place to reminisce, build new...

Life in Winnipeg was like that in many other Canadian cities. It was a city where English was dominant, language, culture, government. The power structure was English with those of anglo-saxon...

About 5 years ago, my daughter began studying in Sapir Academic College, in the small town of Sderot, in Southern Israel. Sderot had long been the target of Hamas Kassam missiles, with thousands...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/calgary-jews-disavow-sex-offender-rabbis-letter/

The Promised Land   Breathless water, overcome with eagerness, rushes down rock-strewn hills bearing brimming life to thirsty plants waiting patiently in the sun, bringing flowers for children,...

Q. What can be better for a 15-year-old than five weeks at Camp Massad? A. Six weeks at Camp Massad! Camp Massad of Manitoba, the only Hebrew immersion residential summer camp in all of North...

The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Region is pleased to honour the Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) at the Negev Gala to be held on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at the Centennial...

At the conference on Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria I attended, there was a  panel discussion on the  topic ‘The Status of the Arabs When Israel Will Apply Sovereignty over...

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  [Editor's note: On a personal note I want to tell readers that after interviewing Ian for a lengthy amount of time, I found him to be a real wealth of information on the topic of fighting...

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/11/ali-zentner-weight-loss_n_2456922.html

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middle-east/2013/02/10/rabbi-david-hartman-dies/R1jOLAwGYZojubCA0GFDPJ/story.html People who encountered Rabbi David Hartman  often came away with a seminal...

About 60 students attended the second annual Western Canada Hillel Conference entitled "Shabbat Shabang" held in Winnipeg on January 25-27, 2013 at the Asper Jewish Community...

Why Is Obama Going to Israel? Posted on February 6, 2013 by Brent Sasley 1 Yesterday I tweeted that I was pre-empting speculation and that no, Obama’s coming trip to Israel wasn’t about...

Co-chairs Bryan Klein, Murray Palay and Dr. Brian Postl are pleased to announce that the Winnipeg Chapter of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University will be honouring long-time volunteer Dr....

I’ve always dibbled and dabbled in Shabbat. As a kid I remember barreling through my grandparents’  apartment door and arriving just in time to see my Grandma toss a sheer navy blue...

Winnipeg, MB – February is Heart Health month and the Rady Jewish Community Centre is bringing awareness to the importance of heart health.  According to the Heart and...

  [*Editor's note:  Hart Piekoff passed away recently at the age of 69 and to honour his memory the  Winnipeg Jewish Review is re-running this article he wrote]  The Jewish...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/12/opinion/a-trench-runs-through-it.html

UN Watch issued the following comment on the UN Human Rights Council’s latest report on alleged Israeli violations:   UN Watch is astonished by the commission’s failure to...

Entrepreneur Matthew Ostrove is the new President of the recently established Jewish chapter of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. A Jewish chapter was attempted once before in October 2008 by Aaron...

The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s Leave More Than Memories endowment fund at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba was created to enable donors to support the Combined Jewish Appeal annual...

The Rady JCC is implementing a Jewish ethics program at the Kaufman Child Care Centre with sponsorship from Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The Sheva program: An Ethical Start, was...

Sondheimfest continues through February 3, 2013 masterplaywrightfest.com Winnipeg Jewish Theatre presents Angels In America: Perestroika May 1-12, 2013 wjt.ca The National Theatre of the World...

The Rady JCC is pleased to announce that the Israel Pavilion-Shalom Square will be participating in Winnipeg’s multi-cultural celebration Folklorama from Sunday, August 11 to Saturday, August...

So, my next birthday takes me to seventy-nine. Almost eighty. To me that is astounding. My Dad died peacefully (I hope) in his sleep at the age of sixty-seven. That’s all that I expected,...

Some Twitter users in France have recently been posting vile anti-Semitic comments, but it will not be easy to stop them. For those of you who do not know what Twitter is, this is the most shallow...

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2013, an event called “Flickers of Light” was held to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Freeman...

  The Canadian Associates of Ben – GurionUniversity of the Negev (CABGU) is proud to welcome Samantha Loxton as its Executive Director for the Manitoba Regional office.   Samantha...

We all know about how the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. But do we actually know what sank the Titanic? In April of 2008, the New York Times...

This afternoon, after more than a year of strategic social media planning, a number of Gray Academy of Jewish Education’s high school students and staff will come together at 12:45pm in the...

The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will present Living with Integrity: Navigating Everyday Ethical Dilemmas, the institute’s new six-session Winter 2013 course, beginning January 29, 2013....

Winnipegger Wendy Erlanger's book “More Than Soup” has exceeded expectations. Erlanger wrote the book filled with soup recipes with the purpose of donating the proceeds to Cancer Care...

What Happens When Hockey and Philanthropy Collide? When Danny Spodek, a self-confessed hockey fiend and die hard Leafs fan, made aliyah with his family, where they would live was a serious...

  The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s Leave More Than Memories endowment fund at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba was created for the sole purpose of enabling donors to continue...

Director Jonathan Gruber enlightened the audience following the Winnipeg premiere of his movie “Follow Me - the Yoni Netanyahu Story” on January 13th, 2013 presented by the Canadian...

One Student’s Illiteracy-Fighting Charity to Benefit from Today’s Fundraising Initiative at Gray Academy Winnipeg, MB – Today, 150 high school students from Gray Academy of Jewish...

  [Editor's note: Rabbi Pinsker's recommendations  re: Shabbat and the Campus are near the end of this article] If you could pray for only one thing, let it be for an idea....

[Editor's note: Given that the University of Manitoba now has a President that has openly supported Israel Apartheid Week, our Hillel group and community leadership ought to be aware...

For the first time ever the University of Manitoba is offering a unique course “Holodomor and Holocaust in Ukrainian Literature and Culture” – one that is not offered at any other...

At the annual Jewish Foundation luncheon on Nov 22,  Lloyd Axworthy, President of the University of Winnipeg spoke about his vision of the University as part of a down town of the city that is...

Leon Leyson, the younget  Holocaust survivor on Schindler's List  dies in Los Angeles home aged 83. Leyson spoke in Winnipeg in 2010 and the Winnipeg Jewish Review is reprinting his story...

Tu B'Shevat For Teens in partnership with Congregation Etz Chayim with "Poor Boy" performing live at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory on Saturday, January 19th, from 8pm-11pm (Admission...

B’nai Brith Canada has alerted police to a protest planned tonight in Vaughan, Ontario. The Jewish human rights organization has warned that the inflammatory rhetoric on the promotional flyer...

Israel is certainly different from Canada. Last week, in Jerusalem, I attended the Women in Green Conference entitled ‘Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria’. In...

The Rady JCC is pleased to announce a new initiative especially designed for students in grades 7 and 8. bbyo Connect will offer teens a variety of experiences to help bridge the gap between...

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/arts-and-culture/2013/01/15/festival-celebrates-15th-anniversary

  [Editor's note:  Elliot Leven's piece below is a response to David Matas's article "Settlements and Peace." Matas's article is reprinted in full at the end of Leven's...

[Editor's note: Regarding the  Satement fo the  Westminister Church which can be found below, Shelley Faintuch, Community Relations Director of the  Jewish Federation of Winnipeg...

The Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) is pleased to announce that Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory...

It is astounding to me to read in this publication, and in so many others, a continuing flow of serious presentations by apparently rational people, talking about “peace with the...

In light of the opposition generated when former Senator Chuck Hagel’s candidacy for Defense Secretary was initially mooted, most analysts predicted - mistakenly - that President Obama would...

Alarmed at the high numbers of young Jews who had never been to Israel, and the implications for the future of North American Jewry, a group of philanthropists decided to create a unique first time...

Two Iranian men Zaneyar and Loghman Moradi are facing imminent execution after being arrested without charge and having been subjected to brutal torture which forced them into making...

The Levy Report, published on July 9th, 2012, concludes, among other things, that: “According to international law, Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria and that...

The Winnipeg Jewish Review is scheduled to be reporting from Jerusalem at the David Citadel Hotel, and the Beit Agron Press Building down the street throughout PM Stephen Harper's first trip to...

  http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/05/david-frum-where-is-the-palestinian-state-in-embryo/

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-sends-warning-to-israel-over-settlement-plans/article6016546/