The mission of the Global Day Of Jewish learning held a couple of months ago in November, 2011 was to bring the Jewish people together once a year to celebrate our foundational Jewish texts through...

 Army launches new program in conjunction with Jewish National Fund to make targeting Israeli homes homes harder for Gaza terrorists. The IDF is known for its sophisticated and advanced...

  Approximately  40 people gathered in the Berney Theatre foyer to witness the draw, mostly staff from the various Campus agencies and Gray Academy students. Barry McArton, President of...

Toronto, ON – In honour of Raoul Wallenberg Day, which was established ten years ago by Parliament to be observed every January 17th, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and...

  What is the mysterious and persistent appeal for regular Berney Theatre-goers who enjoy it season in and season out? Why are the doors open at 1:15 for a 2:00 performance? Who exactly is...

Media Release December 22, 2011 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – In a city where people joke about having less than six degrees of separation, there may never be a better time to tap into the network than...

  In the likely event that the Asper Campus January Jackpot Lottery incurs a loss, this loss will be absorbed by the Campus itself and not passed on to tenants in the building. This is the...

John Hirsch Biography to be Launched in Winnipeg Véhicule Press is pleased to announce that A Fiery Soul: The Life and Theatrical Times of John Hirsch by Fraidie Martz and Andrew Wilson will...

ShawFest, the 2012 Master Playwright Festival, opened today with a lively Shavian Shindig at the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre, as media and theatre people chatted with costumed actors from many of...

Winnipeg's David Matas is persona non grata in Russia, where he says he last visited about 1998 "when I was involved in a human rights conference.".   The international human rights...

One of the things that Jan Currie, acting CEO of the Simkin Centre hopefully will address very soon, if she hasn't already, is the issue of narcotics control at the Simkin Centre.   Here's...

Dr. Catherine Chatterley's book, Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, has been selected as a Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Awards in...

OTTAWA, ON – Today, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was made aware of an editorial in a British Columbia newspaper, The Link, entitled “Racism, Capitalism, and Zionism are the...

The following is a lettter form Gray Academy sent to parents with children already enrolled in the school:    THE GOOD NEWS    Enrolment at Gray Academy this year has...

Everyone is invited to come celebrate the community-wide Tu B’ Shevat Family event with Congregation Shaarey Zedek and the Jewish National Fund on Sunday, February 5th from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM...

   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/carole-freeman-finds-her-muse-on-facebook/article2258155/   Friend Me: Portraits of Facebook runs at Toronto’s Edward Day Gallery...

Once again, winter is proving to be a very busy time for Camp Massad, North America’s only Hebrew immersion residential summer camp.  On-line registration for the summer of 2012 has just begun – with the promise of a $200 discount for those who register before February 13

GENEVA, Jan. 3 - The UN’s continued labeling of the Gaza Strip as “occupied” was directly contradicted today by a top leader of Hamas, the vehemently anti-Israel Palestinian terror...

Machon Madrichim, Federation’s Teen Leadership Institute, is flying high this Chanukah season. December has been jam-packed with various opportunities for this dynamic group of high...

Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 4, 2012 – The Future Leaders of Manitoba Council will host its 4th Annual Awards Reception at the Fort Garry Place on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. to...

The University of Winnipeg Wesmen in conjunction with lea marc Printing Solutions  announced that Basketball Players Yael Kaplan and Eric Zimmermanhave been chosen as the lea marc Printing...

B’nai Brith Embraces Israel Peace Week (IPW)   BBOC has joined together with 75 campuses across Canada, the United States, and Australia in order to confront the annual hate fest of IAW...

Haim Jelin, chairman of the Eshkol Regional Council, on Monday forwarded a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, complaining of the use of chemical weapons against residents of southern Israel...

AVI MELAMED SPEAKS TO US ON A HILLTOP IN JERUSALEM  Avi told us, towards the end of his presentation, that he has a blog in which he conducts TV interviews in Arabic intended for the Arab...

Arthur Blankstein and Ken Ure are the first GLTB couple to be married under the auspices of the Shaarey Zedek synagogue, officiated by the clergy at the synagogue on January 21 2012.   The...

  [Reprinted with permission from the Vancouver Jewish Independent] In his first novel, Marvin Blauer invigorates and expands upon the generic “boy-meets-girl story” by basing...

  [Noam Bedein will be coming to Winnipeg in January ] On December 7th, 2011, UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] issued an extensive report which lauded the vast amount of cement...

National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section held its annual general meeting on Wednesday, December 7. Along with the usual business of an annual report, financial...

When the news of Yale University’s decision to close its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) was first made public in early June, the sector of the blogosphere...

Citizenship Court , December 15, 2011 National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section hosted citizenship court on Thursday, December 15. Michelle Glass, newly elected co-president...

CISA will premiere UNMASKED in Winnipeg at the Berney Theatre on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:30pm. Ms. Greenfield will be our guest.      Dr. Chatterley: Why have you used the term...

Former Israeli Mossad Chief, Efraim HaLevy [who will be speaking in Winnipeg to deliver the Kanee lecture for the Jewish Historical Society], has expressed concerns that given the...

December 22, 2011-Winnipeg, Canada-The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) has renewed its call for an independent review of the Canadian Human Rights Museum (CMHR) and a suspension of incremental...

 The following is a letter from Elliot Leven that I received in May 1982 after arriving with h my grade 12 graduating class form Joseph Wolinsky clollegiate on Kiibbutz Ein Hanatziv. Elliot had...

 The Winnipeg Jewish review has learned that neither the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority [WHRA] or Manitoba Health was consulted by  the Simkin Centre Co-Chairs  Phyllis Spigelman...

In order to understand Alzheimer’s disease, you have to think of chicken soup!   When you make chicken soup, you get all those oil drops that start to form together until you get one big...

  Renowned former chairman of epidemiology and public health at Ben-Gurion University, Professor Velvl Greene, who was borne in Winnipeg to  ardently secular, Zionist parents in 1928, died...

  http://www.indiegogo.com/Winter-Garden?a=337829 Last January, two Israeli architects, Roy Talmon and Noa Biran won the 2011 "Warming Huts - Art + Architecture competition on ice",...

Where I come from, the heftiest weight on the collective mind is the inability to control the weather only to be seconded by a grasshopper outbreak that could destroy a whole growing season of...

  [Marianne Tanzer, wife of Fromer Winnipegger Koby Tanzer, who has made aliya wrote this recently on her blog www.aliyamama.ca With Elan’s first birthday looming, I decided it was time...

JNF Executive Director Rob Berkowits was recently in Israel for his first time last month, and says that one of the many highlights of his trip was seeing the new community of Haluziot in the desert...

Rather unbelievably, liberal writers are bashing a former AIPAC spokesman for keeping a tally of their obnoxious anti-Israel comments. A blogosphere spat is revealing an important fracture in the...

While interviewing Superintendent Laurence Lussier of the Pembina School Trail Division about the recent antisemtic incident where two youths are being charged for allegedly singing the hair...

Thank you to a reader for sending me an article published recently in Embassy magazine in  Ottawa. Iran wants Canada to let it open consulates across the country, something that a Canadian...

There  is an interesting story in the Jewish Tribune today. The true story of the Jewish engineer whose original designs for the Volkswagen (VW) Beetle were stolen by the Nazis is going...

Winnipeg B’nai Brith Yachad Couples Unit 5056 is looking forward to hosting their third annual Chanukah celebrationat the Saul & Claribel Simkin Centre. The program will be on Dec. 21st at...

Winnipeg, MB - It’s time to get the calendar out for the fourteenth anniversary season of Music ‘N’ Mavens!   Fresh from the successful run of the Tarbut Festival of...

Occasionally critics of the government of Israel and of its American supporters put aside polite talk and bare their souls, and that can be an edifying if deeply unattractive moment. Such a moment...

Two Grade 10 students at Oak Park High School in Charleswood are now facing assault and hate charges as a result of threatening a Jewish teen at the school with a lighter and singing her hair....

 Some 40 young adults attended this year’s annual North End Jewish Bus Tour put on by J-PEG [the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg's young adult division] which took place the first week in...

The Simkin centre announced the hiring of Jan Currie as an interim CEO on a half time basis on December 13, 2011 until March 30, 2012. The position for  an interim CEO was not advertised...

The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, the leader in planned giving solutions for Manitoba’s Jewish philanthropists, today announced that it has received an $8.48 million bequest from the estate...

  In accepting the B’nai Brith Award of Merit on Nov 21 at the Fairmont Hotel, Robert Shindleman rose to the podium and quipped, “I wasn’t sure we were going to win, so I...

The writer is national director of Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University. This ariticle first appeared in the Jerusalem Post  A summer of social protests has passed and we are now...

(December 9, 2011) The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg is pleased to announce the election of Israel Ludwig as President effective Thursday, December 8, 2011.   “Rael” is 64 years old...

SKIN GETS READY FOR WINTER by Rhonda Spivak Dr. Lori Shapiro, daughter of  Harry and Roz Shapiro, has some very important tips to give  to readers of the Winnipeg Jewish Review about...

  [This article was prepared for the Winnipeg Jewish Review. Heidi Berger lives in Montreal] For 20 years until shortly before her death in 2006, my mother Ann Kazimirski visited hundreds of...

The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada is pleased to announce that the featured speaker for the 2012 Sol and Florence Kanee Distinguished Lecture Series will be Efraim Halevy, former head of...

Gray Academy prides itself on its unique educational offering in Winnipeg. And with the one-of-a-kind Special Education Resource Program it has in place for its 18 government-funded, levels 2 and 3...

NO one said starting a museum from scratch about a sensitive subject, using evolving technology in a shaky economy, would be easy or come without a few questions raised.   To read more click...

A controversy has arisen about a Toronto public school with a student body that is about 80% Muslim. For three years, Muslim students at Valley Park Middle School have been praying in the school...

The Winnipeg Jewish Review just received a letter asking us to telling readers that beginning on December 9th, there is a film opening at the Globe Cinema in Winnipeg that  will be of...

There were several very problematic comments made by journalist Thannasis Cambanis when he was in Winnipeg last month when he presented his views in a lecture about the Arab Spring at the Etz...

[Editor's note: Shaarey Zedek Congregation is no longer formally associated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ). But it does upholds the standards and practices of ...

  [This has been reprinted with permision from http://rabbipinsker.blogspot.com/. It was written this past summer] The sun has set and our first Shabbat in Jerusalem is over, but it has left...

I have been writing about 21st century anti-Semitism since the turn of the century. Words don't fail me, nor has my spirit grown dim. But what is now going on is so ghastly, so omnipresent, so...

Rachel Browne's new dance Radiance, dedicated to the memory of Babs Asper and composer Ann Southam,  premiered on December 1 at the Rachel Browne Theatre. Browne, a  ballet dancer, modern...

Secretary of Defense Panetta addressed the Saban Forum, the annual meeting of Israeli and American journalists, officials, and former officials, on Friday evening. What he said is no mystery; why he...

Every Friday morning in Oklahoma City, a siren wails. The piercing shrieks that the siren emits are a test of the system that warns of an impending tornado that threatens the city. When Oklahoma...

Readers may be interested to read  what  Rex Murphy had to say  at a  recent event in Vancouver about Israel.  One of my favourites of what Murphy said as quoted in...

The Holocaust Monument on the Grounds of the provincial Legislature, erected in 1990, had 3000 names of Holocaust victims inscribed. In 1997, 56 additional names were engraved. Since then, members...

[ Editor's note: Richard Levy is a Montreal  based lawyer  who has written a journal of his recent  trip to Israel on a JNF tour. This is the first of a series of  his journal...

  In a telephone interview with the Winnipeg Jewish Review on Nov 24, Phyllis Spigelman, who was then Chair of the Simkin Centre Board of said that the contract of Sandra Delorme , CEO of the...

  HOT OFF THE PRESS READ ABOUT HOW YAEL KAPLAN LEADS WINNIPEG WESMAN  TO VICTORY OVER MANITOBA BISONS WIYTH  17 POINTS AND 11 REBOUNDS!!...

It is five thirty in the morning as I write this and I have not yet been to sleep. While putting on the final touches of this edition of the Winnipeg Jewish Review, I remembered that I haven't...

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The op-ed Abe Foxman, Anti-Defamation League chairman has written this week  in  the  the Huffington Post  entitled "The Assault on Israel's Vibrant...

[ Recommended:The above video show's how Engineers without Borders of Technion helped peopel in Nepal.]   TECHNION ENGINEER AND C0-FOUNDER OF ISRAEL’S NATIONAL HOCKEY TEAM : WE...

  All my life I have been told, and since becoming a rabbi, I have been telling people that the Jewish people are one, a single family united by a common past and a shared destiny. Recently,...

Steven Schipper’s Romeo and Juliet currently playing at the Manitoba Theatre Centre is not the first time that this play by Shakespeare has been set in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian...

[Editor's note: This is the speech delivered by  Winnipeg lawyer John McGoey of Pitblado Law at the  B'nai Brith  Award of Merit Gala on Nov 21, 2011 at the Fairmont...

  Reprinted with permission Recently, Yale shut down its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). Some claimed that the center was perhaps too "political."...

 For some, buying a new cookbook is like buying a new car. Choices are based on research and reviews, with fierce determination to find the best fit with all the bells and whistles one could...

    Several faith-based groups protested outside the Toronto District School Board's headquarters Monday over Muslim prayers taking place in a Toronto school. For three years, hundreds of...

A virtue of minority governments in Canada is that the ruling party has got to pay attention to its Parliamentary opposition, and must negotiate compromises. A negative is that legislation can get...

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The Muslim Brotherhood held a rally at Cairo’s most important mosque, al-Azhar. This is sort of a central headquarters for official Islam in Egypt. Demonstrators chanted, “One day we...

 To view more photos of jungle book, click here: http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1823&sec=2&title=MORE_PHOTOS_OF_THE_JUNGLE_BOOK_KIDS  

Disney's The Jungle Book Kids performed by Gray Academy’s Grades 5 and 6 was fantastic. The jungle was jumping with jazz in this energetic performance, under the direction of Miriam...

November 20th was the 30th anniversary of Hart’s and my first date. We discovered we had much in common. I was planning to finish my BA and travel through Europe and Hart regaled me with...

For the first time ever, Canada Post has created two picture postage stamps specifically designed to celebrate Chanukah. [wouldn 't it be nice if they made eight stamps, one for each...

  THIS IS A WEBSITE I JUST FOUND WHERE YOU CAN RATE THE SINKIN CENTRE. ONLY ONE PERSON HAS RATED THE FACILITY AS OF  NOV 2011 AND HAS GIVEN IT A 10/10 IF YOU CARE TO RATE IT...

The following letter was received by Simkin Centre residents yesterday. The leadership review conducted by  Peter Kafka of the Louis Brier home in Vancouver as part of the review of the...

           [The Winnipeg Jeiwsh review will be doing a full report on the  B'nai Brith Award of Merit Dinner Honouring Sandy and  Robert Shindleman. The...

Bob Freedman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg has told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that plans are underway to add on an additional 6000 sq feet to the  ground level of the Asper Jewish...

Oneof the highlights of this year’s Rady JCC Tarbut festival was the screening of Emmy award-winning filmmaker Michael King's film The Rescuers, with a question and answer session with the...

    The Winnipeg Jewish Review has learned that this past summer The Simkin Centre, under the leadership of Phyllis Spigelman and Jack Litvack , co-Chairs of...

 As a parent that has kids that attend school in the Winnipeg School Division, the quality and accessibility of our education system is key to their success – and the success of all...

The seventeen members of the senior class of Machon Madrichim, teen leadership institute, will be practicing their programming skills in Edmonton during  the first weekend of December. They are...