Category National

Helping kids, entertaining

photo - Jerry Maslowsky, executive director of Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba

Jerry Maslowsky, executive director of Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba. (photo from Jerry Maslowsky) Jerry Maslowsky, executive director of Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba, has a long history with the organization. Maslowsky, 57, started off in performing arts…

Cancer survivor chooses life

photo - Michael and Francine Permack

Michael and Francine Permack (photo by Bernie Bellan) Winnipeg-born Michael Permack has lived 22 years with a brain tumor. That makes him Canada’s longest-living brain cancer survivor – by far. Now a resident of Calgary, where he and his wife…

Walk Winnipeg’s North End

photo - Walk participants explore the Ashkenazi synagogue, the oldest in Winnipeg, on a tour led and organized by Zach Fleisher, seen below in front of what used to be the building housing the city’s Hebrew Sick Benefit Association. (photo from Zach Fleisher)

Walk participants explore the Ashkenazi synagogue, the oldest in Winnipeg, on a tour led and organized by Zach Fleisher. (photo from Zach Fleisher) Not so long ago, Winnipeg’s Jewish community hub was the city’s North End. With Yiddish spoken on…

Reconciliation efforts

Ve’ahavta and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) were among the Jewish organizations participating in the ceremonies supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), an independent commission whose mandate is to acknowledge experiences, impacts and consequences of Indian…

New Loran Scholars

The Loran Scholars Foundation has selected a new class of Loran Scholars. Each of the 30 scholars receives a Loran Award valued at up to $100,000 over four years, including mentorship and a summer program. Loran Scholars may attend one…

Grant-winning video

Screenshot - Erin Goldberg’s winning entry to the NSERC competition.

A screenshot from Erin Goldberg’s winning entry to the NSERC competition. The public has voted, the judges’ scores have been tallied and the results are in. The 15 winners of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Science, Action!…

What’s wrong with gossip?

photo - Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield at Limmud Winnipeg

Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield at Limmud Winnipeg. (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) It was a packed room at the Gray Academy of Jewish Education during Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield’s session on gossip at Winnipeg’s Limmud festival in March. Some 80 attendees listened as…

Yom Ha’atzmaut in Ottawa

photo - Ambassador of Israel to Canada Rafael Barak, centre, with his wife Miriam and Foreign Minister Rob Nicholson at the Israeli embassy’s Independence Day reception held at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa on April 29. The more than 600 attendees included ministers, MPs, senators, Supreme Court justices, members of the diplomatic corps, government officials, rabbis, other clergy, representatives of the Jewish community and other supporters of Israel

Ambassador of Israel to Canada Rafael Barak, centre, with his wife Miriam and Foreign Minister Rob Nicholson at the Israeli embassy’s Independence Day reception held at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa on April 29. The more than 600 attendees included…

Canadian Jews behind bars

photo - Rabbi Zushe Silberstein

Rabbi Zushe Silberstein (photo from cjnews.com) When Rabbi Zushe Silberstein heard that the Jewish inmate standing before him in a Montreal jail was due to be released in just three days, he didn’t hesitate. “My daughter is getting married this…

We Care believes in change

photo - Leah Gazan

Leah Gazan (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) Human traffickers target those who are most vulnerable – women and children, and people from impoverished and marginalized cultures and communities. Anti-trafficking organizations estimate that between 12 and 30 million people are held in forced…