Bradley West and Shayna Plaut (photos from conference organizers) As part of Winnipeg Pride Week in May, local organizers put on the first-ever Queer and Faithful Conference. A grassroots event created to give voice to LGBTQ2+ people of colour and their experiences…
Katie Delay, left, and Sunny Enkin Lewis are co-presidents of Grant Park High School’s Students for Social Justice. (photo from Sunny Enkin Lewis) Earlier this year, Winnipeg Grade 12 student Sunny Enkin Lewis won first prize for her age group…
Jeff Golfman’s Raw Office helps “businesses save money and be more eco-friendly in their supplies.” (photo from Raw Office) Jeff Golfman has been working on ways to preserve nature since he was a boy. “I can trace it back to…
Deema Abdel Hafeez placed third in the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies’ annual speech contest. (photo from Janet Lee Elementary School) Every year, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies puts out a call to…
Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award presents the da Vinci Eye (named after Leonardo da Vinci) to books with superior cover artwork. Cover art is judged on both content and style and, among this year’s winners is Olga Campbell’s Whisper…
Given two recent murderous attacks on American synagogues, combined with terrorist missiles from Gaza landing throughout southern and central Israel, it is easy and understandable to be pessimistic. But a new study on Jews in Canada is jam-packed with reasons…
Springfield Collegiate Institute students walking into Auschwitz. (photo by Jim Osler, SCI) Holocaust education is commonplace in Jewish schools. But, in public schools, discussion about the Shoah is at each teacher’s discretion. Some 14 months ago, teachers at Springfield Collegiate…
Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg (photo from Rockman-Greenberg) In the 1970s, when Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg was eyeing the budding field of genetics as a career, she had to become a pediatric doctor first. Now, Rockman-Greenberg counts her clinical background as a blessing,…
“We were saddened, horrified and deeply angered by the murderous terrorist attack in Christchurch, which was clearly motivated by hatred of Muslims that was at least in part fomented online,” Martin Sampson of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs…
A survey of Jewish Canadians indicates that we are not a Zionist monolith. This will be news to no one who has enjoyed a family seder or logged onto social media in recent years. However, it is useful to have…
