JSA/Hillel
– News and events
This email includes:
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Memorial of the Rwandan Genocide
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HonestReporting
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Mock elections
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JSA Pilates
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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
Please call Isanne for more information at 793-4437, or sign up in
the JSA office, located in University Centre.
HonestReporting
Join us.
The Canadian Federation of Jewish
Students
with Hasbara Fellowships
Presents
Your Chance to Join In
On March
28th, Israelis will be voting for their new leadership.
From
This year, the Canadian
Federation of Jewish Students along with
Hasbara Fellowships is
bringing the Israeli elections to you.
We are
giving Canadian students a chance to take part in mock Israeli elections.
IsraelVotes2006.ca is your gateway to learn
about the parties, leaders, and issues and to vote for the party of your
choice.
The
website includes information on all of the parties and leaders, as well as news
on the election. After learning about the parties and issues you get the chance
to vote by choosing your campus from the dropdown menu and filling out the
online ballot. It’s that easy!
This is
a great opportunity to engage in Israeli life and to show others the vibrant
democracy in
At the
end, we will see how each campus, and how Canadian students as a whole, voted.
Don’t
miss this great opportunity!
Matt
Fisher
CFJS
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:
Bonjour
Monsieur Shlomi –
Monday, March 27, 2006 at 7:30 pm –
This heartening, coming-of-age family comedy
demonstrates how, through the power of love, an overlooked boy can discover
himself.
Nina’s
Tragedies – Tuesday, March
28, 7:30 pm –
Filled with bittersweet moments, love and great
emotion this profound and whimsical film takes a humorous look at a 14 year
old’s turbulent period in his family’s history.
Hineini:
Coming Out in a Jewish High School – Wednesday, March 29, 7:30 pm
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This fascinating, incisive new documentary
chronicles the story of a gay, Jewish teen’s courageous fight to
establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school and the
transformative impact on the entire community.
Presented in conjunction with Anakhnu, the Rady JCC’s Jewish GLBT Group
Walk on
Water – Thursday, March
30, 7:30 pm – Israel/Sweden, 2004
Universally acclaimed, this film is a captivating
thriller about a hardened Mossad assassin hunting down a fugitive Nazi war
criminal. Filmed with an international cast in
Turn
Left at the End of the World –
Saturday, April 1, 8:30 pm – Israel/France, 2004
The highest grossing Israeli film of the last
decade, this charming and sexy comic drama set in the 1960s features two Jewish
immigrant families – one Indian, the other Moroccan – who become
unlikely neighbours in the Israeli desert.
A
Cantor’s Tale –
Sunday, April 2, 2:00 pm –
This endearing, feature length documentary tells
the story of Hazzanut (Jewish
cantorial music) in
Mixed
Blessings: The Challenge of Raising Children in a Jewish-Christian Family Sunday, April 2, 7:30 pm
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This poignant documentary illustrates the
emotional process four couples encounter as they try to come to terms with
their own spiritual and religious beliefs and how those beliefs get passed down
to their children.
Special Guest - filmmaker Jennifer Kaplan will be
in attendance for a post-screening discussion.
Generously supported by
the Jewish Federation of
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
Campfire – Tuesday, April 4, 7:30 pm
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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
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.
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
The
dolls are made in
So
100% of the money goes back to
Anyone
can order them by emailing simunye.united@gmail.com
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