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B’nai Brith Canada Launches Website to Educate Manitoba Voters

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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

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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

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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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Adriana Glikman Discusses Diverse Minds Creative Writing Competition with 680 CJOB

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Adriana Glikman, B’nai Brith’s National Program Coordinator for the Diverse Minds Creative Writing Competition, speaks to 680 CJOB about the competition, which teaches valuable lessons of diversity and inclusion to high school students and empowers our youth to become role models for one another.

Winnipeg Free Press: United in the fight against antisemitism

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B’nai Brith’s Regional Director, Manitoba, Dr. Ruth Ashrafi, wrote an op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press about the adoption of IHRA. CLICK HERE to read the op-ed.

Manitoba Adopts IHRA Following B’nai Brith Advocacy

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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

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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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B’nai Brith 13th Annual “Afternoon with the Goldeyes”

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Providing a hot lunch and gifts throughout the community For the second year in a row, one of B’nai Brith’s signature programs, an Afternoon with the Goldeyes, is being conducted in a special format due to Covid restrictions. At the initiative of Earl Barish and with the help of dedicated volunteers, Liz and Pat Panchuk …

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Diverse Minds Manitoba Winners 2021

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Anna Botkin and Bria MacBeath win the contest with their book, More than Me and You. This year’s Diverse Minds writing contest received many excellent children’s books on diversity and inclusion. The judges faced the difficult task of choosing 10 finalists from the many original, attractive, and educational submissions. On Sept. 14, the finalists were …

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Fighting for Your Protection

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B’nai Brith Canada is seeking hate-crimes charges and a political response to a video showing protesters in Winnipeg playing an antisemitic song composed by a band linked to the Hamas terrorist group. On May 15, hundreds of people joined an anti-Israel protest outside the Manitoba Legislative Building in central Winnipeg. In one video, the crowd …

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