JSA/Hillel – News and events

This email includes:

- Memorial of the Rwandan Genocide

- Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival

- Little Traveller Dolls  

Memorial of the Rwandan Genocide

Volunteers Needed

We need volunteer to help on April 6th at an event during the week of the

Memorial of the Rwandan Genocide at the University of Manitoba.

Please call Isanne for more information at 793-4437, or sign up in the JSA office, located in University Centre.

Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival

Screens World-Renowned Features and Documentaries

Ten unique and critically-acclaimed films from a number of countries will be presented to audiences at the 2006 Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival from March 27 to April 5 at the Berney Theatre, Asper Jewish Community Campus.  The festival is presented by The Asper Foundation Performances in association with the Rose and Max Rady Jewish Community Centre.

Featured Films are:

Rosenstrasse – Monday, April 3, 7:30 pm – Germany/Netherlands, 2003

Based on a true story of resistance in World War II, this moving and inspirational film portrays the courageous protest of Aryan women married to Jews against the imprisonment of their husbands in a cell on Rosenstrasse in 1943 Berlin.

Campfire – Tuesday, April 4, 7:30 pm – Israel, 2004

This touching and delightful film portrays one Israeli woman’s struggle set against the backdrop of the religious Zionist settler movement in the early 1980s.

Live and Become – Wednesday, April 5, 7:30 pm – France/Belgium/Israel/Italy, 2005

Set against the backdrop of the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews, this moving, epic feature brilliantly portrays the story on an Ethiopian boy who makes his way to Israel from a Sudanese refugee camp.

All foreign films are subtitled in English. Tickets are $8.50 and are available by calling the Rady Jewish Community Centre at 477-7510 or online at  www.radyjcc.com  – Click on Ticket Central. Flex Packs (choose four films) and Festival Passes are also available.

Little Traveller Dolls

HIV AIDS Initiative

JSA is partnering with a local organization Simunye initiative.

http://simunye.webhop.org

The dolls cost $5.00 and are all original and unique (make great Valentines Day presents) and are MADE by somebody affected by AIDS in South Africa.

The dolls are made in South Africa; some of the money goes to the person making the dolls who is a crafter, thereby supporting a family affected by AIDS. The rest of the money goes to support the home-based care programming of the Hillcrest AIDS centre trust.

So 100% of the money goes back to South Africa.

Anyone can order them by emailing simunye.united@gmail.com

GOOD LUCK WITH EXAMS

If you would like to see different programs or more of them, send an email to info@jsawinnipeg.org and tell us about it.

Website: www.jsawinnipeg.org - Questions, Suggestions and/or Concerns: info@jsawinnipeg.org