You Are Invited!

Please join us as we honour our 2010 SIGNERS and enjoy a Yiddish Vaudeville performance with Winnipeg's own David Gale together with Randy Vancourt. Admission: $25 - Tickets available by calling Brenda at (204) 477-7528, the JFM office - 4th Floor - Asper Jewish Community Campus or register online by clicking here. For more information, click here.

New Scholarship Provides Unique Opportunity!

Andrew Kaplan is the recipient of the inaugural Grosberg Family Judaic Studies/Hebrew Teachers' Award. Andrew graduated from Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate and the University of Manitoba, and is currently teaching at the Gray Academy of Jewish Education. With this Award, Andrew will be pursuing a Masters Degree in Education. To view a thank you video from Andrew and for more information about the Grosberg Family Judaic Studies/Hebrew Teachers' Award, click here..

Andrew Kaplan, Inaugural Grosberg Family Judaic Studies/Hebrew Teacher's Award recipient

A Sense of Obligation

What 26 year old Jason Gisser has had to endure is certainly not ordinary, and how he has responded has been nothing short of extraordinary. In 2003, Jason was diagnosed with "Ameloblastoma", a very rare benign oral tumor. As a past recipient of the JFM "Ruth and Joe Freed Academic Excellence Award", Jason was well aware of the Jewish Foundation's reputation and ability to administer endowment funds. Upon being called to the Bar, Jason opened his own fund and asked family and friends to make a donation to his fund in lieu of gifts. Read more...
Jason Gisser

Changing Lives and Community

It is said, when speaking of tzedakah, that the one who gives, receives so much more than the one who receives. The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba was pleased to distribute over $124,500 in education awards to 70 local students in 2010! Read more...

2010 Scholarship recipients

JFM Funds "Youth in Philanthropy" Program

This year, Gray Academy students, through the Youth in Philanthropy program funded by the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, selected six local charitable organizations to support as grant recipients. This program allows the students to understand the importance of giving back to their community and making wise, informed philanthropic decisions. Read more...

Grade 10 students at the Gray Academy's "Youth In Philanthropy" program with representatives from six of the organizations that received allocations in 2010.

Save the Date

2011 Women's Endowment Fund Luncheon

Thursday, May 5, 2011 - Fort Garry Hotel

Guest Speaker: Gail Asper, O.C., O.M., LL.D.

President
The Asper Foundation