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B’nai Brith Canada Launches Website to Educate Manitoba Voters

Cliquez ici pour le français September 8, 2023 WINNIPEG – With Manitoba’s Oct. 3 provincial elections approaching, B’nai Brith Canada has developed a website to inform voters about the different candidates’ platforms and positions on Jewish issues. This initiative comes after B’nai Brith sent a survey to Manitoba’s legislature. The website contains the responses received …

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Adriana Glikman of B’nai Brith Canada Interviewed by Global News on Diverse Minds Creative Writing Competition

Adriana Glikman, B’nai Brith Canada’s National Program Coordinator for the Diverse Minds Writing Competition, speaks on Global News about the launch of the 2023 Competition and invites high school students from all across Canada to enter. She is joined by a 2022 competition finalist, Samuel, who speaks about the inspiration behind his submission.

B’nai Brith Canada Asks Manitoba Candidates to Take a Stand Against Jew Hate

August 14, 2023 WINNIPEG – With voters set to elect Manitoba’s next provincial government on Oct. 3, 2023, B’nai Brith Canada is urging candidates to make combating antisemitism a top priority. Although B’nai Brith’s 2022 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents of Canada suggested that the province experienced one of the lowest anti-Jewish hate crime rates since …

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Manitoba Adopts IHRA Following B’nai Brith Advocacy

Cliquez ici pour le français Oct. 27, 2022 WINNIPEG – Manitoba is the latest province to implement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. “We’re thrilled that Manitoba has decided to follow Ontario and Alberta’s decisions to adopt the IHRA definition,” said Ruth Ashrafi, B’nai Brith Canada’s Regional Director, Manitoba. “We offer our expertise to aid …

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People Helping People

Diandra and Jordana Etkin, two sisters from Winnipeg, Manitoba, have been volunteering for B’nai Brith in Winnipeg for over a decade. Giving their time as volunteers was a lesson that Diandra and Jordana learned early on from their family. In Jordana’s words: “volunteering is part of my identity.” The Etkin sisters’ first program as volunteers …

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