Social Action Projects

ANNUAL WINNIPEG HARVEST EVENING

Please come on Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 – 8:30 pm to help sort and pack food for Winnipeg Harvest, located at 1085 Winnipeg , one block north and west of the corner of Notre Dame and McPhillips.  Please consider bringing food to donate when you come to help out; baby food and pet food is needed as well as other non-perishable food items.  Winnipeg Harvest does a remarkable job of providing food to people who would not have enough for their families without these donations. 

CONTINUING NEED FOR DONATIONS OF FOOD FOR JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES

Please consider generously donating non-perishable food items for Jewish Child and Family Services each time you come to a Service.  All food donations this year will be going to JCFS. The food we donated at Yom Kippur was very much appreciated but will likely be given out to people in need within a month to six weeks.

PLEASE DONATE GENTLY USED CLEAN CLOTHING 

Koats for Kids – children’s outerwear can be dropped of at any Perths or fire hall

The Clothes Closet – Women’s office wear, including coats, dresses, shoes, skirts and pants, jewelry, etc can be taken to the lower level of the Fort Garry United Church , 800 Point Road off Pembina Hwy , Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 4 pm , or left on the steps clearly marked for the Clothes Closet

The Up Shoppe – Women’s clothing and other items suitable for office work, including dresses and pants, coats, jewelry, shoes etc. as well as casual and business clothes for men, women and children. The clothing can be dropped off at 382 Selkirk Avenue , Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm , Saturday 10 am to 4 pm , or put in the box by Candice’s office downstairs.

INTEREST- FREE LOANS AVAILABLE

The Asper Helping Hand Initiative, administered by Jewish Child and Family Service, provides interest-free loans to people at every stage of life who are experiencing temporary financial hardships.  The program assists individuals and families in becoming or remaining self-supporting and valued members of the community through self-respect and dignity.  A borrower must be a Jewish resident of Manitoba and able to demonstrate a need for the loan as well as the ability to repay it.  All applicants must provide qualified guarantors who are willing to co-sign the loan.  For more information or if you would like to become a guarantor for someone in need, please contact Shelley Garfield, Program Manager at 338-7132 or email helpinghand@aspercampus.mb.ca

KRISTALLNACHT PROGRAM: "HISTORY ON TRIAL" WITH DEBORAH LIPSTADT

Tuesday, Nov. 8 – 7:00 p.m. – Asper Jewish Community Campus

The program will be broadcast Live from the 92^nd Street “Y” in New York (via satellite). Professor Lipstadt will discuss her 6-year long trial with Holocaust denier David Irving. The Daily Telegraph ( London ) declared that the trial did "for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations."