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Was told there was an article about people helping to fund holocaust survivors sent to Canada that mentioned my father MEYER SHWARTZAPEL. Would love to read
it- he was involved in helping Walter Salzberg- Tried to google it, tried on your search area but had no success. PLEASE if you can would appreciate your
emailing it to me. Want my children and grand children to know what a great guy their grandfather was.
Thanks for any help.
Natalie Cohen

I will contact you and provide you with all the information you are looking for.

I am shocked at the management of the Sharon Home. The managing committee is a self-perpetuating goup which has siezed power and cannot be dislodged. Please continue your efforts to restore democracy into Sharon home management. All members of the Jewish community who contribute to community funds should have a say in managemenet of community organiations.

I grew up in Winnipeg and left many years ago.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's Réal Cloutier is quoted as saying "The WRHA's critical-incident review concluded improvements in communication were needed among staff and between staff and patients' families."

Seven nurses, and there was a lack of communication as to how or when to treat a 93-year-old woman for bedsores?

Is this a case of ageism? If a report has been generated by the Protection of Persons in Care Office, we know there was "abuse." Why has no inquest been called by the chief medical examiner? Why has Manitoba Justice not investigated?

- LESLIE WORTHINGTON
Winnipeg

I was truly impressed with the article that you wrote re the Sharon Home and the meeting held there. Some time ago I got involved with a group that was
attempting to bring about much needed change to the attitudes and methods of the Sharon Home by attempting to meet with the Board . At that time I made the
decision to remove myself from the group for personal reasons, but continued to support anyone who would bring about change at the home. I , along with others
received a cowardly letter from some Board member offering to meet with me privately and dictating where , and what we could discuss as I think they were
all too afraid what they would hear and chose to keep their heads buried in the sand .. . I would like to ask publicly of the Management and board of
the Sharon Home in light of the findings of the Government investigation and subsequent results of neglect , To coin an advertising slogan " Can you hear
me now ". Too bad they could not protect an old lady and save her life. It is > disgusting !They should all resign!!

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Rhonda Prepes,

Thank you for sharing this article with me. I am glad that you were able to inform readers of the great Mitzvot (good deeds) that Peter Jablonski (Nachman Fryszberg) z"l performed during his lifetime. May we all learn from him how to be better human beings, and may his memory be forever a blessing.

In sympathy,
Rivka Schiller
Achivist
YIVO Institute for Jewsh Research in New York

That is another silly article. So what if the author doesn't know the captain's name? (But the two names of people he quoted associated with the boat - Ruch and Rosenfeld - are Jewish).

Thanks to Israel's ability to collectively punish Palestinians, the world again knows about its outrageous attempts to enforce an inhuman and illegal blockade on the good people of Gaza. Yup, Israel and its loyal apologists make us Jews look like assholes once again. Keep it up, and you will succeed in achieving what anti-Semites have so far failed to do - give the world a factual reason to hate Jews.

House Resolution Reaffirms U.S. Support of Israeli Peace Efforts
AIPAC welcomes yesterday’s passage of House Resolution 268 threatening to restrict U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if its leaders continue to evade direct negotiations with Israel and seek statehood at the United Nations. The measure also calls on President Obama to consider suspending American financial assistance to the PA as a result of its reconciliation with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization sworn to Israel’s destruction.
Following last week’s passage of a companion resolution in the Senate, AIPAC appreciates Congress’s support of Israeli efforts to forge a lasting peace with the Palestinians through direct negotiations and without the threat of violence.
The resolution in the House -- introduced by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) -- passed by an overwhelming vote of 407-6.
“We ask and call upon the Palestinian Authority to return to the negotiating table and join the Israelis in direct discussions to end this conflict,” said Rep. Cantor during debate on the House floor. “Furthermore, we call on the leadership of the Palestinian Authority to renounce the violence Hamas condones and teaches to its followers.”
Rep. Hoyer urged Palestinian leaders to refrain from “symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations,” arguing that “peace must be negotiated, not imposed from the outside.”
“Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection,” he added. “Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.”
The companion resolution in the Senate (S. Res. 185) passed last week by unanimous consent and was introduced. by Sens. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), Susan Collins (R-ME), Robert Casey (D-PA), John Thune (R-SD), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Jim Risch (R-ID).
RELATED: View the full text of House Resolution 268 and Senate Resolution 185.

July 7, 2011

Ottawa, ON – On July 7th, Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA), issued the following statement in response to the publication of the final report of the Canadian Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism:

“We are gratified that the Coalition’s report identifies a line beyond which criticism of Israel loses all semblance of fairness or reason. Such criticism is nothing less than an assault on Israel’s legitimacy as the homeland of the Jewish people. The report is therefore a significant document not just for Jewish Canadians, but for all Canadians. For as history has repeatedly proven, a society unsafe for Jews is ultimately unsafe for democracy.

We Canadians have every right to criticize particular policies of the government of Israel, our democratic friend and ally. But as this cross-party report confirms, we must recognize the denial of the Jewish people's right to a national homeland as a modern version of a historic hatred – a disturbing new form of Anti-Semitism.

The Coalition’s report also verified the fact that many Canadian campuses have become a hotbed of toxic discourse and intimidation. The vulnerable position of students who support Israel – both Jewish and non-Jewish alike – must be confronted directly and without delay.”

The Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) is now the spokesperson for all issues concerning the organized Canadian Jewish community, including those formerly handled by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canada-Israel Committee, and the Quebec-Israel Committee.

For more information, contact Steve McDonald at 647-270-8072.

July 7, 2011
For Immediate Release

TORONTO - Throughout July and August teenagers from summer camps across Canada will participate in Politics FTW - the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs
Committee's program to engage young Jewish Canadians in the political process. "Politics can seem distant and difficult - especially to young people. This
program makes politics accessible and fashionable so we can foster the next wave of engaged community members," said Rachael Segal, CJPAC's National
Outreach Coordinator.

The program, which will visit camps across the country, simulates a real election campaign and thrusts campers into key campaign roles, helping them better understand the impact that each of them could have on a campaign. CJPAC then offers each camper the opportunity to get involved on the campaign of their choice when they get home.

"With provincial elections expected in up to 8 provinces, we're working harder than ever to ensure our community is engaged - and that includes encouraging
volunteers," commented Mark Waldman, CJPAC's Executive Director. "Political involvement is crucial for our community at all levels of government, and we hope to see our community continue to participate as passionately as they did during the federal election."
To learn more about CJPAC or Politics FTW, including a list of participating camps, visit www.CJPAC.ca<http://www.CJPAC.ca>

For photos or more information including specific camp information:
Tomer Chervinsky, Director of Marketing & Communications
email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
phone: 416.929.9552 x234

Following up on today's news about the passage of the Cardin-Collins resolution, I wanted to pass along this statement from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...Kind regards, Ari

- Ari Goldberg
AIPAC Spokesperson • Director of Media Relations

_____________________________________
For Immediate Release
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
CONTACT: Jon Summers, Reid, 202-224-2939

Washington, D.C.– Nevada Senator Harry Reid issued the following statement today following passage of the Cardin-Collins resolution:

“I am pleased that the Senate unanimously passed Senators Cardin and Collins’ resolution, supported by 88 bipartisan cosponsors, which says a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should come through direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. If peace talks are to be fruitful, the Palestinians cannot bring to the negotiating table a terrorist organization that rejects Israel’s right to exist. A fair beginning to good-faith talks also means the Palestinians cannot simply stop by the negotiating table on their way to the United Nations to seek recognition as a state.

“The United States of America will not give money to terrorists bent on the destruction of the State of Israel. America’s willingness to continue our current aid program will depend on the Palestinian government’s insistence that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist, that it renounce violence and that it honor the commitments made by prior Palestinian Authority governments.”

- Ari Goldberg
AIPAC Spokesperson • Director of Media Relations

The attached cartoon is a response to the anti Israeli reporting of events around the Mavi Marmara last year and in anticipation of the impending ballyhoo surrounding the Freedom Flotilla 2 Farce. It emphasizes the direct relationship that exists between a hostile anti Israeli media and the global increase in anti-Semitism. The metaphors used make the connection between historic anti-Semitic imagery and modern day anti -Israeli images published in the liberal British press.

If you require further clarification about the cartoon or the imagery behind it , please mail to [email protected]

June 29, 2011

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If you visit the Rammalah Palestinian refugee camp which is located in downtown Ramallah, you will see a process of gentrification of what is an urban slum. To preserve the householder's rights to the original home in the camp, multi-story houses are built above and astride the original walls of what was once a mud brick house.

Spivak wrote that: Dr. Tal Becker, an International Associate of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told me that Israel 'behind the scenes has tried to encourage [donor] states to channel aid they give to the PA towards the rehabilitation of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank' [i.e. new homes for them] but Israel’s 'efforts so far have been unsuccessful.' "

I do not know how much has changed, but when I was a technical adviser to the Canadian government that was then gavelling the multilateral refugee talks in the early nineties, we explored the proposal to shift aid to the Palestinian refugees directly through the PA rather than through UNRWA since that was to be the de facto government of Palestine and the refugees were to be Palestinian "citizens". We were not so surprised that the PLO then opposed such a shift for two reasons; a) they would be surrendering the political leverage of "refugee return"; b) they calculated that less aid in total would come to the Palestinians than if the aid was going to two different institutions. Thus, though it would mean that the education, health and welfare system would have become more rationalized and coherent, politics and irrational economics of aid stood in the way. However, we were very surprised to learn that "at that time" Israel also opposed diverting UNRWA funds to the PLO because less aid would be coming to the region and some authorities in the Israeli government believed that Israel would in the end have to pick up the slack.

In ethnic and religious conflicts all around the world refugees have not returned unless by force or stealth. However, Elliot Abrams is incorrect to claim that they have been resettled. Though many have been resettled, millions of such refugees have wallowed in protracted refugee situations for decades and have NOT been resettled. The Palestinian refugee case is just the one of longest duration and the largest one.

- Howard Adelman
Howard Adelman is the co-author of the very recently published "No Refugee, No Return" (Columbia University Press) and of many other books and articles on refugees.

Earlier today, you may have received an email purporting to be from me regarding an AIPAC statement on the Gaza flotilla. Please be advised that the message was a hoax and potential hack of our systems.

This is not the first time this has happened, nor will it likely be the last. One way of determining the inauthentic provenance of the message, as you may have noticed, was the author’s misspelling of my name along with the name of a member of Congress. Of course, we are investigating this incident and will take all appropriate measures to prevent it from happening again.

Ari Goldberg
Spokesperson • Director of Media Relations
AIPAC-America Israel Public Affairs Committee

Alan Isfeld, First Nations Voice

Editors Note to readers: The story being reprinted by the First Nations Voice which has 90,000 copies of its print edition, which first appeared on the front page of the Jerusalem Post earlier this year can be accessed by clicking here:

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=951&sec=2&title=WE_MADE_THE_FRONT_PAGE_OF_THE_JERUSALEM_POST:_IRANIAN_DISSIDENT_SPEAKS_OUT_IN_HONOUR_OF_NEDA,_HIS_SLAIN_FIANCEE