Event focuses on founder of Jewish Renewal movement
Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi concept, was for a movement that aims to reinvigorate Judaism with kabbalistic, chassidic, musical and meditative practices
Winnipeg camp launches $8-million fundraising campaign
The largest endeavour in the camp’s 62-year history, will among other things, go toward upgrading existing infrastructure and erecting new buildings
CFHU Winnipeg envoys take new approach to outreach
Shai Josepov and Sigal Kleynerman are the new faces of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University in Winnipeg, intent on getting to know the community
Winnipeg documentary presents genocide through first-person testimony
A new documentary that premiered in Winnipeg on Sept. 26, is aimed at raising awareness that “never again” has to become more than empty words.
New rabbis, new challenges
As assumptions about Jewish life change, younger clergy face issues their older colleagues never even contemplated Two years ago, when Rabbi Idan Scher first walked into his shul, the Orthodox Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, he encountered a Jewish landscape that was quite different than the one he might have faced if he’d started his […]
Winnipeg Hillel under new leadership after brief shutdown
After a brief hiatus, Hillel is back in business on Winnipeg’s two university campuses under a new director, former Torontonian Arielle Branitsky. Last spring, following the end of university classes, the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg temporarily shut down the universities’ Hillel program. In an interview last month, federation CEO Elaine Goldstine said her organization was […]
Australian expert leads charge against online anti-Zionism
WINNIPEG – The most up-to-date technology is helping to spread the oldest hate worldwide. “There is a growing normalization and acceptance of anti-Semitism in society as a result of online content,” noted Andre Oboler, the CEO of the Australian-based Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI). Speaking to a Winnipeg Friends of Israel event Aug. 24 (he […]
Winnipeg CJA campaign kicks off with new manager
Winnipeg’s annual Combined Jewish Appeal campaign kicks off on Super Sunday Sept. 11 with a new campaign manager – Regina Teplitsky – and a goal of at least equalling the final dollar figure for the 2016-017 campaign
Yazidi brothers reunited after 26 years apart
Khuder Naso and his family are the first of seven Yazidi refugee families expected to be coming to Winnipeg thanks to he efforts of Operation Ezra
First all-Jewish Winnipeg medical group remembered
The Mall Medical Group in Winnipeg, founded in 1947, was the first all-Jewish medical group in Manitoba
