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Renowned journalist Caroline Glick to deliver this year’s lecture for the Adas Yeshurun Herzlia Distinguished Lecture Series
The last time internationally renowned journalist Caroline Glick appeared in Winnipeg was April, 2014, when Glick was the tenth guest speaker for that year’s Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada Sol and Florence Kanee Distinguished Lecture.
Glick spoke before a packed audience that year and her returning to Winnipeg this coming May is sure to fill the Adas Yeshurun Herzlia Synagogue when Glick will be the third guest speaker in what has become one of the community’s most stimulating events: The Adas Yeshurn Herzlia Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Glick will share her perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing Israel in the upcoming decade.
The following is taken from a release issued by the synagogue:
Under the co-chairmanship of Lynne Salman and Sal Pellettieri and generously supported by The Asper Foundation, this annual fundraiser enables Adas Yeshurun Herzlia’s congregation of 90 families to continue its support of modern Orthodox Judaism in Winnipeg. Rabbi Yosef Benarroch’s spiritual leadership ensures daily minyans, adult classes at the synagogue and at the Asper Campus, Shabbat and Holiday programming including Junior Congregation, and hands-on learning for children aged 8-11. Additionally, Rabbi Benarroch supervises Kashrut, the Asper Campus Mikvah, and the Eruv for the benefit of Winnipeg’s Jewish community and its visitors in his role as Rav Hamachshir.
Following in the footsteps of previous distinguished speakers Dara Horn and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. Glick is a world-class journalist with an impressive CV. She is a senior columnist with The Jerusalem Post, and Ma’ariv, and has been published in leading newspapers and journals including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Review, the Journal of International Security Affairs, and Commentary. She also authored The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, (Crown 2014) and Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad (Gefen 2008).
Glick is an adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the center for Security Policy in Washington, DC, and directs the Israeli Security Project at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. She travels frequently throughout the world to brief policymakers on issues related to Israel’s strategic environment and lectures widely on strategic and political issues affecting global security, Israel and the Jewish people, US-Israel relations, Israel-Diaspora affairs and Israel’s changing strategic landscape.
Glick grew up in Chicago and moved to Israel in after receiving a BA in Political Science from Columbia University. She joined the Israel Defense Forces and served as an officer in the Defense Ministry as a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians. Following her discharge from the IDF, she was the Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu before obtaining a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She resides in Efrat with her family.
Glick covered the US-led invasion of Iraq as an embedded journalist with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Reporting for the Jerusalem Post, Ma’ariv, Israel TV’s Channel 2 and the Chicago Sun Times, Glick was one of the only female journalists on the front lines with the US forces and the first Israeli journalist to report from liberated Baghdad.
Glick has received numerous awards for her commentary, including the Ben Hecht award for Middle East reporting from the Zionist Organization of America, the Abramowitz Prize for Media Criticism by Israel Media Watch, the Guardian of Zion award from Bar Ilan University, and the Moskowitz Foundation’s Courage of Zion Prize. Her website at www.carolineglick.com publishes a weekly column on issues of interest to Israel and world Jewry.
Ticket purchase information is available by contacting the synagogue office.
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Thank you to the community from the Chesed Shel Emes
We’re delighted to share a major milestone in our Capital Campaign, “Building on our Tradition.” Launched in November 2018, this campaign aimed to replace our outdated facility with a modern space tailored to our unique needs. Our new building is designed with ritual at its core, featuring ample preparation space, Shomer space, and storage, creating a warm and welcoming environment for our community during times of need.
We’re grateful to the nearly 1,000 generous donors who contributed over $4 million towards our new facility. A $750,000 mortgage will be retired in November 2025, completing this monumental project in just seven years.
We’re also thrilled to announce that our Chesed Shel Emes Endowment Fund has grown tenfold, from $15,000 to $150,000, thanks to you, the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba’s FundMatch program, and Million Dollar Match initiative in 2024. Our fund helps ensure that everyone can have a dignified Jewish funeral regardless of financial need.
As we look to the future, our goal remains to ensure the Chevra Kadisha continues to serve our community for generations to come. Our focus now shifts to replenishing our savings account and growing our JFM Endowment fund.
We’re deeply grateful for your support over the past several years.
It’s our privilege to serve our community with care and compassion.
With sincere appreciation,
Campaign cabinet: Hillel Kravetsky, Gerry Pritchard, Stuart Pudavick,
Jack Solomon, and Rena Boroditsky
Murray S. Greenfield, President
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Winnipeg Beach Synagogue about to celebrate 75th anniversary
By BERNIE BELLAN (July 13) In 1950 a group of cottage owners at Winnipeg Beach took it upon themselves to relocate a one-room schoolhouse that was in the Beausejour area to Winnipeg Beach where it became the beach synagogue at the corner of Hazel and Grove.
There it stayed until 1998 when it was moved to its current location at Camp Massad.
On August 2nd members of the synagogue will be holding a 75th anniversary celebration.
As part of the celebration anyone who is a descendant or relative of any of the original members of the first executive committee (as seen in the photo here) is invited to attend the synagogue that morning.
If you are a relative please contact Abe Borzykowski at wpgbeachshule@shaw.ca or aborzykowski@shaw.ca to let Abe know you might be attending or for more information about the 75th anniversary celebration.
We will soon be publishing a story about the history of the beach synagogue, which is something I’ve been writing about for over 25 years.
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Vickar Family cuts ribbon on new Tova Vickar and Family Childcare Centre
By MYRON LOVE In the words of Larry Vickar, the Shaarey Zedek’s successful Dor V’ Dor Campaign “is not only a renewal of the synagogue but truly a renewal movement of Jewish life in our community.”An integral part of that renewal movement was the creation of a daycare centre within the expanded synagogue. On Monday, June 23, Larry and Tova Vickar cut the ribbon, thereby officially opening the Tova Vickar and Family Childcare Centre in the presence of 100 of their family members, friends and other supporters of the project.
The short program preceding the morning ribbon-cutting began with a continental breakfast followed by a welcome by both Fanny Levy, Shaarey Zedek’s Board President, and Executive Director Dr. Rena Secter Elbaze. In Elbaze’s remarks, she noted that Larry and Tova wanted their family (including son Stephen and family, who flew in from Florida) and friends at the event to celebrate the opening of the Tova Vickar and Family Childcare Centre, “not because of the accolades, but because, as Larry put it, he hopes that their investment in the congregation will inspire others to do the same.”
“When Larry and I spoke about what this gift meant to him and the message he wanted people to take away,” she continued, “I couldn’t help but connect it to the teachings of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi whose book – Age-ing to Sage-ing – changes the whole way we look at the concept of ageing and basing it on our ancestral teachings.”
She explained that his concept of “Sage-ing” is based on three key ideas – Discover your meaning and purpose; accept our mortality and think about the legacy you want to leave.
“Larry spoke about these exact concepts when we met,” she said.
Elbaze also noted the presence of Shaarey Zedek’s newly-arrived senior Rabbi Carnie Rose, former Rabbi Alan Green, and area MLAs Mike Moroz and Carla Compton.
Larry Vickar expressed his great appreciation for all those in attendance. “Tova and I are deeply moved to stand here with you today for this important milestone in our community”, he said. “We are grateful to be surrounded by all of you, the people we care about, our family and friends… you who have touched our lives and played some part in our journey.”