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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Winnipeg

Then-Canadian International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr speaks at the first China-Canada economic and financial strategy dialogue in Beijing, China, November 12, 2018. (Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)
December 20, 2022, 11:25 pm
Jim Carr, Canadian MP whose political values stemmed from his Jewishness, dies at 71
Son of Russian Jewish immigrants led mission to Israel in 2018, said antisemitism he faced as a teen shaped his efforts to bring Jews and Muslims together
By Ron Kampeas
BerMax Caffé and Bistro in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Google Street View screenshot)
April 25, 2019, 2:59 pm
Canadian police say ‘anti-Semitic attack’ on cafe was staged
Owners of BerMax coffee shop in Winnipeg charged with public mischief after restaurant was vandalized; police investigating previous attacks at eatery
By Marcy Oster
The word "Jew" is seen spray-painted in the parking lot of the BerMax Caffe and Bistro in Winnipeg, Canada. (Screen capture: CTV News Winnipeg)
February 5, 2019, 7:57 pm
Kosher eatery in Canada hit with anti-Semitic graffiti for second time in weeks
‘Jew’ spray-painted on windows and in parking lot of BerMax Caffe and Bistro; police reportedly investigating vandalism as a hate crime
By Marcy Oster
People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
January 26, 2018, 2:14 pm
The inevitable politicization of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Since 2005, the UN has commemorated the genocide of European Jewry every year on January 27. This weekend’s observance is galvanizing activists from South Carolina to Vienna
By Matt Lebovic
A rock with an anti-Semitic epithet and a reference to a Nazi death squad was left inside a package on the doorstep of a Jewish couple in Winnipeg, Canada. (Courtesy of B’nai Brith Canada)
January 6, 2017, 5:26 am
Swastika, ‘die Jew’ left on rock at door of Canadian couple
Winnipeg police treating incident as hate crime, say they are taking it ‘very seriously’
By JTA
Two Yazidi families being greeted by local volunteers after a privately sponsored mission called Operation Ezra brought them to Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 20, 2016 (Nafiya Naso)
December 21, 2016, 6:48 pm
Jewish community brings Yazidis fleeing IS brutality to Canada
Winnipeg’s Operation Ezra privately sponsors refugee families who have been chased from their homes
By Emily Rose
Michael Rubenfeld weds Magda Koralewska in Krakow, Poland on April 1, 2015. (Katka Reszke)
November 22, 2016, 3:38 am
On Poland trip seeking roots, Canadian actor finds wife and new life
Michael Rubenfeld makes theater piece from quest to repair difficult relations with his second-generation Holocaust survivor mother
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The first privately sponsored mission called "Operation Ezra" brought this Yazidi family to Canada on July 11, 2016. (Courtesy of Michel Aziza)
November 6, 2016, 10:03 pm
Canadian Jews press government to accept Yazidi refugees
Yazidi families fleeing IS brutality are being privately sponsored by Jewish donors to come to Canada
By Emily Rose
Izak Sagui (left) and his long lost brother Shep Shell reunite after seven decades with their biological mother in 'Aida's Secrets.' (Courtesy)
May 22, 2016, 1:25 am
After 70 years, man born in DP camp meets unknown brother(s)
Film documents the unraveling of a family mystery as an Israeli man discovers that finding one brother in Canada is only beginning of his search for the truth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
March 21, 2016, 12:45 am
Boycott stickers cropping up on Israeli products in Canada
Anti-Israel activists launch campaign after Vancouver government condemned divestment and sanctions
By JTA
The $351 million Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. (Flickr/JTA)
September 22, 2014, 10:52 am
Holocaust a tool to explore genocide at Canadian museum
‘Examining the Holocaust’ is biggest of 11 galleries at the $351m. human rights museum that opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Saturday
By Josh Tapper
May 3, 2014, 4:45 am
Winnipeg shul drops speaker who allowed campus ‘apartheid’ week
University of Manitoba president allowed Israeli Apartheid Week on campus, gets pulled from speaking at Yom Hashoah service
By JTA
Illustrative: The Winnipeg Jewish community holds a party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a program helping Jews from overseas immigrate to Manitoba, 2013. (Jewish Federation of Winnipeg)
March 27, 2014, 9:25 pm
Winnipeg Jewish recruits aren’t quite what was expected
Outreach by ‘icy paradise’ to overseas Jews draws a mixed bag of South American Zionists and Israeli opportunists
By Uriel Heilman
A court in Winnipeg. (photo credit: CC BY Bob Linsdell, Flickr)
January 6, 2014, 8:28 am
Hair-burning attack not anti-Semitic, Canadian judge rules
High schooler who singed girl’s locks ‘a jerk and a bully,’ but incident not motivated by racial hatred, Winnipeg court says
By JTA
January 6, 2014, 4:41 am
Classmate assault was not anti-Semitism, Canadian judge rules
Attacker gets 75 hours community service for setting Jewish girl’s hair on fire
By JTA
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