NCJWC Winnipeg co-hosts with the Rady JCC, different speakers to talk on variety of women’s health issues several times a year. Past topics have included: women's cancers, urinary incontinence (with the author of "I Laughed So Hard I Peed My Pants"), osteoporosis, skin cancer and skin care, heart attack...
Winnipeg Section is working with JCFS to open a Jewish Resource and Recovery Centre in Winnipeg. Our "Or Branch" has also put together an online "Parents' Toolkit on Addictions", which will be launched shortly. Related Projects
Mitzvah Day is part of a global movement that began in the UK in 2005, and Winnipeg Section introduced it to our city in 2019. This city-wide social action event brings together Winnipeggers of all ages and backgrounds each November to devote one day to good deeds that benefit...
Through our Books for Kids program, we distribute books to school-aged children in inner- city schools and drop-in centres across Winnipeg. These books are theirs to keep, no returns required, helping foster a lifelong love of reading. Donations of new and gently used books are greatly appreciated. Related Projects
On February 22, 2016, NCJWC-Winnipeg members went on a private tour at the Manitoba Museum to explore the Women's Right to Vote exhibit, as well as Manitoba history that surrounded this monumental time in human rights. The exhibit was titled "Nice Women Don't Want the Vote”, and was organized...
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, is a voluntary organization which, in the spirit of Judaism, is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general communities locally, nationally and internationally.
