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B’nai Brith Canada Welcomes New Regional Director in Manitoba

August 23, 2017 By Hailey Kobrin Communications Associate B’nai Brith Canada B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to announce that Ran Ukashi has joined the organization as Regional Director in Manitoba. Ukashi brings forth vast experience as a Policy Analyst in the Health, and Indigenous and Northern Affairs sectors of the Province of Manitoba, and other organizations. As […]

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Winnipeg Graffiti Promotes Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory

Advocacy, Press Releases /

August 16, 2017 WINNIPEG – Graffiti promoting an antisemitic conspiracy theory has been found in a broad area of southern Winnipeg. Writing scrawled on roads, sidewalks and even private property along Wellington Crescent warns ominously of “white genocide,” linking the concept to Jewish-American philanthropist George Soros. The white genocide conspiracy theory, which falsely accuses Jews of plotting

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B’nai Brith Canada and Corey Fleischer Team Up to Erase Hate in Winnipeg

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June 7, 2017 By Amanda Attar Researcher, Jews from the Middle East B’nai Brith Canada WINNIPEG – B’nai Brith Canada regularly receives calls to its 24/7 Anti-Hate Hotline. But one received last week, alerting it to antisemitic graffiti that defaced part of a building in Winnipeg, MB, was particularly noteworthy. The call was received at approximately 12:00 p.m. The

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B’nai Brith Hosts YomHaShoah Ceremonies Across Canada

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April 25, 2017 By Jaimie Goldstein B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Yesterday, on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), B’nai Brith Canada paid tribute to the six million Jews, as well as countless others, who were robbed of their lives by the Nazi regime. To commemorate those who perished, B’nai Brith held ceremonies across Canada where

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Winnipeg Interfaith Passover Seder Brings People Together

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April 10, 2017 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada There’s a passage in the Haggadah that we read at the Passover seder called “Ha lachma anya,” which begins the telling of the Passover story with a proclamation that everyone is invited to join and participate in the festivities. This welcoming environment was extended to

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Unto Every Person There is a Name – Winnipeg Yom Hashoah Ceremony

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In honour of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, Midwest Region, presents the reading of the names of Holocaust victims. By personalizing the individual tragedy of its victims and survivors, this program seeks to defy the dangerous trends of indifference and ignorance and will restore a degree of

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Following Antisemitic Incident, Winnipeggers Show Solidarity with Jewish Neighbours

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By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada First it was Mayor Brian Bowman. Disturbed by the antisemitic incident that took place last month in the Wolseley neighbourhood of Winnipeg – when a couple arrived at their home to find a rock painted with the words, “Die Jew Bitch. EinsatzGruppen” and other antisemitic slurs – the

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Montreal, Winnipeg Hit with Snow Swastikas

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By Marty York Chief Media Officer B’nai Brith Canada The ugly reality of antisemitism in Canada was evident in the suburbs of two major Canadian cities in recent days, B’nai Brith has learned. In the Winnipeg neighbourhood of St. Vital, a former Cabinet Minister in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba became appalled and infuriated when

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B’nai Brith Teams Up with Main Street Project in Winnipeg

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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada B’nai Brith Canada is proud to have partnered up with the Main Street Project organization to donate food to the needy in Winnipeg. Since 1972, the organization has served the city’s most vulnerable by offering a safe place of respite, shelter and support, with dignity and without judgment, to individuals

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CTV Interviews B’nai Brith on Winnipeg Hate Crime

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CTV News Winnipeg’s Michelle Gerwing spoke to Amanda Hohmann, National Director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, on Jan. 5, 2017, regarding an antisemitic incident involving rock containing a swastika and antisemitic messages that was left outside a Jewish family’s home in Winnipeg.

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