Bill Weissmann, unofficial ambassador for Winnipeg’s Jewish community, to receive Lt-Gov.’s award for promoting interfaith understanding
In the late 1990s, Louis Berkal, then rabbi at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Winnipeg, had a favour to ask Bill Weissmann. Rabbi Berkal, who died in 2009, was supposed to speak to a local high school class touring the synagogue. Would Weissmann fill in for him and tell them about Judaism? Weissmann had misgivings. But […]
New Canada-Israel Group Chair Seeks Multi-Partisan Approach
The New Democratic Party’s resolution passed earlier this month calling on Canada to end arms deals with Israel does not mean the state has no friends within the NDP, says Anthony Housefather, the new chair of the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group, known by the acronym CAIL.
