The Manitoba Liberals have proposed more flexible Sunday shopping hours. "We believe businesses should be able to decide their own hours. Treating Sunday morning as off limits for shopping ' is...

Fifty two year old Michael Benarroch, a member of our Jewish community and graduate of the Joseph Wolinsky collegiate's class of 1977, has been named the new Dean of the I.H. Asper School of...

 Adam, Hart, and I returned last week from Great Neck, NY, where the extended Linder clan attended my cousin Ronnie’s son’s bar mitzvah. Yael had a basketball commitment, but Ronnie...

CISA Announces Its First Year of Programming: Editor Interviews Dr.  Catherine Chatterley   Editor: The Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) which you founded last year...

My hair is now completely grey and I dare say it could be a side effect of attempting integration rather than purely a result of a genetic predisposition. I don’t hide the fact that over...

I have always viewed the arrival of Rosh Hashanah with a sense of optimism. It is an opportunity to start fresh, make amends, celebrate family, and to appreciate the precious things in life like Pam...

Brock Corydon students gained insight into the significance of the Shofar in the celebration of Rosh Hashanah by participating in crafting a genuine Shofar from the raw horn of a ram at the...

Arms control expert Gerald Steinberg has taken issue with the presence of Canada on a recent short list to help Jordan construct a nuclear reactor to generate energy for civilian purposes.  ...

Why not support the unilateral declaration of an independent (UDI) Palestinian state? The 18 years of negotiations since Oslo, have yielded nothing but a stalemate in the diplomatic arena and...

    [Editor's note: I have run this story because John Greyson was a speaker at both University of Manitoba and Winnipeg campuses during Israel Apartheid Week last year.] Robert Lantos,...

You don’t have to pay to pray….. This year, high holidays are on us! Chabad-Lubavitch invites you to join us at Winnipeg’s Jewish Learning centre for the High Holidays....

There is a feeling of betrayal that Obama failed to fulfill his promise in 2008 to be a pro-Israel president. Talkbacks (113) In a column published two months ago, I commented on the findings of an...

TORONTO, 19 September 2011: A standing-room only crowd of over 3000 people packed Canada Christian College to capacity to protest the Arab League’s plan to unilaterally divide Israel...

[The following is a book review by former Winnipegger   Brenda Barrie and if you read the aericle by her daughter, Aviva  Cohen, you will see that Aviva Cohen defines herself as the ...

First. Full Disclosure: I had polio in the early fifties when I was about eight, in what turned out to be the last big epidemic just before the Sabin and Salk vaccines were developed. As I like to...

At the Limmud Conference, former Winnipeger and author Brenda Barrie  spoke on the topic "Sometimes the Golem Is a Girl." I had a wonderful time talking with  Barrie, who is...

    [Editor's  note: Thanks to Janet Corne's mother, Irene Corne for bringing this article to my attention. This article was in the  Globe and Mail recently.My first thought...

Memory becomes a minefield at Canada's Museum for human Rights. But when the museum's content advisory committee report was released in May, 2010, not only did it call for a separate Holocaust...

Winnipeg’s Brian Sholom and Madeline Kowall were fortunate enough to lead Canada Israel Experience birthright trips to Israel in 2011. Additionally, some 45 Winnipeg young adults participated...

It's a good thing Cameron Johnston is a university professor with 30 years of experience in campus politics and student thinking. Because it would require a superior mind to make sense of the...

It is a somber reflection on the naivety of well-intended Jewish philanthropists that they continue donating vast amounts of money to Israel’s largest NGO, the New Israel Fund (NIF). They do...

Durban became the tipping point for the coalescence of a new, virulent, globalizing anti-Jewishness reminiscent of the atmospherics that pervaded Europe in the 1930s   It was said in the...

Flair Travel Presentation, Wednesday September 21, 7:00 pm in the Travel Alcove, McNally Robinson . Join Flair Travel for this presentation on an upcoming January 2012 tour package “Rome to...

WASHINGTON — Not since Jimmy Carter in 1980 has a Democrat running for president failed to win a lopsided majority of the Jewish vote. This has been true during times of peace or war, and even...

[This Rosh hahsana we are starting off a joke column that will  regularly be posted in the arts and entertainment.  We welcome readers to send in their favourite jokes and selected ones...

The provision of any support by U.S. persons, including the planned banquet for Ahmadinejad, is considered unlawful provision of aid to the outlawed regime Jewish Civil Rights Group Warns...

[Editor's note: Any of our readers are welcome to write in and express their political views. We welcome the exchange of ideas. Elliot Leven is a long-time member of the  New Democratic...

  This past week for the first time an official of the United States State Department made a clear statement that the United States would veto a unilateral Palestinian bid at the UN Security...

FemFest will once again feature work relevant to Winnipeg's Jewish community. Ginny Collins will have an excerpt of her new play, commissioned by the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, featured in a reading...

 Toronto, ON – The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was recently made aware of a lecture given by Professor Cameron Johnston yesterday at York University, which reportedly included an...

 I had no idea that Dan Manning  was Jewish--probably because I didn't think that Manning was a Jewish sounding last name. "We are the first Jewish Family in Manitoba with the ...

High Holy Days 5772   123 Matheson Avenue East    http:/www.congregationetzchayim.ca  ...

PLAN TO ATTEND THE 21st ANNUAL WINNIPEG PROPHECY CONFERENCE @ Portage Avenue Church 1420 Portage Avenue October 13th - 15th, 2011 from 9:00 am - 8:00 pm daily...

[This article  appeared in the Montreal Gazette ] MONTREAL - Any negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – as part of wider Arab-Israeli peace and reconciliation –...

Darrell was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Darrell has been active in the community in family, sport, religion and making a difference through his financial assistance/guidance to individuals,...

Paddle into history on Winnipeg's Team at Israel’s first Dragon Boat Festival on the Sea of Galilee May 17 – 18, 2012   No expertise required! Interested in joining a team...

ROSH HASHANA BERNSTEIN’S   CHICKEN SOUP – CLEAR - NOODLE - MATZO BALL GEFILTE FISH - CHOPPED LIVER – CHOPPED HERRING ROASTED CHICKEN – ROASTED TURKEY- BRISKET ROASTED...

Over the coming few weeks, you have a choice to make. A choice that goes beyond who will be Premier and which candidate will sit in the Legislature. You can choose to sit on the sidelines of the...

My dear friend Judi is known to have the very best retro expressions. On her most recent visit to Israel she treated us to an exceptionally stellar saying reminiscent of my Grandparents’ era;...

I was over at the home of Haskel and Tina Greenfield and overheard Haskel and Karla Dahan talking about their "new shul". I thought they were talking about Rabbi Pinsker's new shul, but...

  SHANA TOVAH TIKATEIVU: WISHING YOU A HAPPY AND SWEET NEW YEAR- 5772     Sid  and Esther Halpern Israel and Maylene Ludwig and family Barb'ra and Rocky Kravetsky Dr. Sora...

Federation’s Financial Resource Development department is off and running for this year’s annual Combined Jewish Appeal, working with 200 dedicated volunteers to get the word out,...

2011 High Holy Day Services will be conducted at the  VISCOUNT GORT HOTEL, located on Portage Avenue immediately east of the St. James Bridge. Membership is NOT a requirement and all are...

  B’nai Brith Canada ran this ad below in Saturday’s National Post, which it said "goes to the heart of our advocacy messaging on human rights in the world today, and the...

   On August 8, both the Jerusalem Post and Ma'an News agency reported that Fatah and Hamas agreed in Cairo to a mutual release of...

Political friends and foes alike paid tribute to federal NDP leader Jack Layton, after his death at age 61, on August 22.  Layton died after a courageous battle with cancer. Born John Gilbert...

From July 31st to August 13th, Winnipeg once again celebrated Folklorama, its unique festival of multiculturalism first held to celebrate Manitoba’s Centennial in 1970. And once again,...

 A STRATEGY TO AVOID HEART DISEASE Sharon Mulvagh to deliver 3rd Harold Buchwald Memorial Public Lecture on Heart Health in Winnipeg on Sept. 8th, 2011 To re-focus International Academy of...

As the death toll in Syria reaches at least 2400, according to some estimates, and bodies of young men who have been tortured and murdered after their arrest are returned to their families with...

 Rosh Hashanah is a time for new beginnings. “Prayer is the language of the soul in conversation with God” writes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in his essay Understanding Jewish Prayer. And...

Today wasn’t exactly a normal Shabbat—Ever since my husband Ariel and I moved to Israel in 2005 from the  U.S., we have gotten used to a certain amount of day to...

I’m a nail biter from way back. When I was a kid my Dad would threaten me with the dreaded wearing of the white gloves. Translated that meant that if I continued to bite he’d make me...

[This first appeared in Newsmax] There are several reasons why justice demands that Jonathan Pollard — given a life sentence for spying on the United States for Israel — be commuted...

  [Editor's note: Thank you to David kilour for sending this to the Winnipeg Jeiwsh Review. We are pleased to publish it] Permit to begin by saying that I’ve just learned that the shoes...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MATLOCK FEST 2011 – BIGGER AND BETTER August 27 and 28, 2011 Matlock, Manitoba Summer ain't over 'till the Festival sings!!! Manitoba's greatest summer keeps on sizzling...

August 12, 2011: Hebrew language classes have always been an essential part of Judaic Studies at the University of Manitoba. Professor Moshe Nahir of the Department of Linguistics has taught Hebrew...

The Chai Folk Arts Council Inc. is pleased to announce the newly established CHAI DANCE COMPANY.  This performance level troupe is for male and female dancers ages 12 + up who have a passion...

 I was born in Winnipeg in 1951 to Jewish parents, both of whom had also been born here.  Our home was a secular one, but I was aware that I was Jewish and that the ramifications of...

First published in the Wall Street Journal, August 11,2011 20 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576498423827070338.html?mod=googlenews_wsj] South of Lebanon's Litani River,...

Twenty-one-year old business student Krystin Houston has never set foot in an overseas land but that's about to change. Houston is one of 11 third-year business students from the University of...

This article was fist published in the Morden Times. The first "All Nations Bless Israel International Conference" was held in Winkler from July 28 - 31st, 2011 and it included...

by Rabbi Alan Green, Senior Rabbi, Shaarey Zedek Congregation There are so many erroneous statements in Hart Peikoff’s article       ...

By Rabbi Ari Ellis, Herzlia Synagogue   I was pleased that Rabbi Green made the effort to come over to my office and speak with me, as well as with Rabbi Altein, to inform me about the...

[Editor's note:I want to thank Rhonda Prepes for raising what is a very important issue in her article below that I think has not received enough attention in our community. There are...

What follows is PART 2 of 2 of our report on the Meeting at the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre (Sharon Home) on July 25, 2011. To read the first part of our report, click here: ...

                      GWEN SECTER CREATIVE LIVING CENTRE...

   Winnipeg has been awarded the semi-annual International Conference of  GLBT [Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered] Jews, to be held here on July 5-7, 2013.  The...

After growing ameuteur football in Manitoba, Rob Berkowits will set out to grow donations for the Jewish National Fund.  The Winnipeg Free Press has reported that  Rob Berkowits...

My first “career” was in Organisational Development in the Hi-Tech sector. This was during the latter part of the last century, the bubble had not yet burst and we were living the high...

One of the most valuable lessons I ever learned came from a woman who placed an ad in the Boston Globe.  Peg was looking for someone to run an after school program for low- income youth in a...

Ruth Miriam Asper, affectionately known as “Babs” since childhood, who was a matriarch of our Jewish community and a well-known philanthropist in the general community was laid to rest...

  Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's office is disputing a statement by a Palestinian legislator that she and the minister talked about dates for Baird to visit the Palestinian territories....

    Sophie Berkal Sarbit is carrying on the singing tradition of her later zaida Rabbi Berkal Berkal all the way to Israel when she leaves on August 10th to compete as one of thrity...

[reprinted with permission] -first published in Jerusalem Post The Israel Chamber Orchestra on Tuesday performed Wagner's opera Siegfried Idyll at the Bayreuth Opera Festival. It was the first time...

DELORME SAYS HOME HAS LEARNED FROM ITS MISTAKES

 Erez Rotem, who was the JNF Shaliach for the Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and Alberta has completed his service with the JNF-Canada.  Rotem, who was an Israeli ...

On Monday, June 18th, members of the Winnipeg Jewish and Argentinean communities gathered in the Berney Theatre to remember the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Centre in Buenos Aires,...

[This  article  first appeared in the Jerusalem Post http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=3029 and is being reprinted with permission] The recent Dick Morris opinion poll demonstrates that...

Jeremy Beller, a fourth year student of archaeology at the University of Manitoba, was one of four people from the University of Manitoba to help dig up a 2900 year old two horned altar located in a...

TORONTO, July 12, 2011 /CNW/ - There's nothing unusual about elite hockey players attending university on scholarships - unless the university happens to be in Jerusalem. The Canadian Friends of the...

  [The Winnipeg Jeiwsh Review received this letter on July 18, 2011. The Editor's thoughts follow it]   MY Mother, Lily Elston, [of blessed memory]  died in the Sharon Home.  She...

July 25, 2011 – The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg is accepting donations to assist victims of the famine in Somalia and surrounding regions. Federations across Canada are working with Isra AID...

"IN THE FUTURE IT WILL BE INCREASINGLY LESS RELEVANT WHETHER ISRAEL IS AN ISLAMIC OR JEWISH STATE," IMAM FAISAL ABDUL RAUF SAYS

IMAM  OPPOSES SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN

Check out Winnipeg Studio Theatre’s production of Hersteria at this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival at the Prairie Theatre Exchange July 13 – 24, 2011. Hersteria is a...

  [Former Winnipegger Brent Sassley is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington. He earned his Ph.D. at McGill University in 2007 and teaches...

This article is in response to an Article seen Saturday July 16, 2011 Pg J 13 in the Winnipeg Free Press.  "Jewish Cemetery designates section for dual-faith couples." [Shaarey Zedek...

[Editor's note: I don't think  Camp Massad has ever been referred to as much in a major Israeli newspaper as it has been in this article below by  Mira Sucharov, who I remember vividly...

Negotiations between Israel and the PLO have been stalled for many reasons, but a central issue is the Palestinian refusal to acknowledge Israel as a “Jewish state.” The whole idea...

Following my  inquiry regarding whether the  government of Manitoba had received calls from new people with concerns about the Sharon Home since deciding on its  full standards...

The article below which was first published on the front page of the Jerusaelm Post,  has been continuing to circulate and we are pleased to let readers know that the article ran on the front...

Since Israel is one of the leading hi-tech countries of the world,  it should be pretty simple to access the internet here, shouldn’t it?   Well, not exactly. I spent the first three...

Over the years, Winnipeg’s Jewish community has become known for many things, such as its all-embracing warmth, the philanthropic generosity of its members and the sweet, calorie-filled...

Jerusalem, Israel -“Canada  does not support  a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state at the  United Nations" this coming September, Canadian  Minister...

[A longer version of this article will be published in the Jerusalem Post] In the history of modern antisemitism, many claim that there is a complete distinction between anti-Jewish sentiment and...

      As they attempt to set sail for Gaza, here is the shocking true story - so far - of the furtive, captain-less ship Tahrir. The world media have been fascinated by the...

REMEMBERING THE BOMBING OF THE AMIA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE IN BUENOS AIRES Monday, July 18th marks the 17th anniversary of the AMIA Bombing - a terrorist attack of the headquarters of the Argentine...

The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba is pleased to welcome Steve Kroft as its new President. Steve has been a JFM board member since 2001 and joined the executive in 2003. He was elected the new Chair...

Canadian philanthropist and CanWest Global Communications director Gail Asper hopes that a new entrepreneurial program will empower Arab women in east Jerusalem to join the workforce and contribute...