Category National

Israeli-inspired innovations

screenshot - The Eureka Project is a Winnipeg business incubator

The Eureka Project, a Winnipeg business incubator is as innovative about its own financing and growth as it teaches future entrepreneurs to be. And, with the leadership of businessman Gary Brownstone, some of its partner companies are seeing returns in…

Envisioning a peaceful future

As part of Middle East Week at the University of Winnipeg, Mira Sucharov, associate professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, spoke on the topic of Power and Identity Across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide. About 60 people came out…

Help fund new game

screenshot - Playing Kujamma

Playing Kujamma. (screenshot)  Aryeh Altman, inventor of the game Kujamma, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund $25,000 to manufacture an initial run of Kujamma for retail. The game’s concept revolves around collecting and accumulating, which is exactly what kujamma…

Sephardi group in Ottawa

photo - Rabbi Ilan Acoca, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Parliament Hill

Rabbi Ilan Acoca, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Parliament Hill. (courtesy of Prime Minister’s Office) Last month, a Jewish delegation paid a visit to Parliament Hill with two main items on the agenda – educating the…

AJD on Road to Peace

photo - Road to Peace: left to right, Josh Morry of the Arab Jewish Dialogue on Campus, and AJD’s Howard Morry and Ab Freig

Road to Peace: left to right, Josh Morry of the Arab Jewish Dialogue on Campus, and AJD’s Howard Morry and Ab Freig. (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) Founded in 2006, the Arab Jewish Dialogue (AJD) is a national organization based in…

Na’amat stands in solidarity

photo - The Canadian contingent included representatives from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver

The Canadian contingent included representatives from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. (photo by Israel Malovani) Leaders of Na’amat Canada joined representatives of the organization from the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, Argentina, Uruguay and Israel for the…

Paris synagogue visit

photo - The Hon. Rob Nicholson at the Great Synagogue of Paris during a trip to France, accompanied by Joël Merghi and Rabbi Moshe Sebbag

The Hon. Rob Nicholson at the Great Synagogue of Paris during a trip to France, accompanied by Joël Merghi and Rabbi Moshe Sebbag. (photo from the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs) The Hon. Rob Nicholson, minister of foreign…

Halper talks across Canada

photo - Dr. Jeff Halper speaks at the University of Manitoba on Feb. 9

Dr. Jeff Halper speaks at the University of Manitoba on Feb. 9. (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) Dr. Jeff Halper, an Israeli anthropologist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke on four different occasions in Winnipeg over two days, Feb. 8 and…

Taking care of elders

Cindy Greenlay, therapeutic recreation manager at Winnipeg’s Simkin Centre, is one of the first to admit that no one plans to retire and move into a care home. But, she explained, “Circumstances happen and the support we’re able to provide…

Ottawa school closes

photo - Ottawa Jewish Community School’s high school program will be phased out by 2017

Ottawa Jewish Community School’s high school program will be phased out by 2017. (photo from cjnews.com) A unanimous decision by the Ottawa Jewish Community School’s board of directors will see the city’s only Jewish high school program phased out by 2017.…