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22 recommendations, no time to wait: Sen. David Arnot on Canada's new antisemitism report
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (1742+ words) Hear why a non-Jewish senator from Saskatchewan became a champion in the fight against antisemitism. During the Senate's year-long study on antisemitism, released a week ago on April 21, Senator David Arnot admits to becoming deeply upset when learning some Canadian…...
New riot, hate-incitement charges laid in TMU protest at Students Supporting Israel event
9+ hour, 56+ min ago (872+ words) Prosecutors have upgraded charges against four people accused in a violent disruption of a Toronto Metropolitan University student event last November, alleging conduct that escalated into a masked riot and included hate-incitement offences. The new allegations stem from a Nov....
What Lena Dunham's haters have in common with antisemites
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (260+ words) Often, when a famous person comes out with a memoir, readers wonder if it will address the elephant in the room, whatever that might be for the celebrity in question. Normally this would be about something at least a little…...
Police investigate hate crime after man assaulted outside Thornhill synagogue on Shabbat
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (1330+ words) Police in York Region, north of Toronto, are seeking a suspect in connection with an attack outside a synagogue during Shabbat morning services on April 25 in Thornhill, Ont. York Regional Police (YRP)s Hate Crime Unit is investigating after a…...
Treasure Trove looks at the life of Leon Blum " French prime minister, Holocaust survivor and Zionist
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (242+ words) After the French capitulated to Germany in June 1940, Blum was arrested and brought to trial'in February 1942 on the charge of treason.' His defence was so effective that the Germans suspended the trial and Blum was returned to prison.'He was…...
Fiddler on the Roof brings its magic in Yiddish to Toronto
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1847+ words) The long-awaited Toronto run of Fiddler on the Roof performed in Yiddish (with subtitles) which was an off-Broadway hit, finally opens this May. In New York, the production's original six weeks first stretched to six months, then wound up playing…...
Israel's final flag raising at Toronto City Hall was not a flashpoint'but a defiant celebration
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (1886+ words) For about 12 years, the City of Toronto has displayed Israel's flag each spring on a ceremonial courtesy pole to mark the Jewish State's Independence Day. The annual event has drawn little attention in the past'until the Oct. 7 war reshaped the…...
Montreal marks Israel's Independence Day with dancing, music " and heavy security
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (968+ words) Israel's Independence Day fell on April 22 this year, and that meant a midday party in downtown Montreal Wednesday, with more than 2, 000 people spending a few hours dancing at Place du Canada. Under the theme of "We're Dancing Again," the Yom…...
Israel at 78: An idea fulfilled, and a story still unfolding
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (1935+ words) Listen to The CJN's North Star, where a collector of Israel's founding artifacts'and a woman who has lived its entire history'tell the story of Israel at 78. On Israel's 78th birthday, Israelis are marking that moment during a very different reality'two years…...
A Filipino Canadian on how he arrived at Jewish allyship
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (407+ words) Nearly ten'years ago, I travelled to Israel as a recent political science graduate, interested'mainly in'the region's politics. As someone who grew up attending Filipino churches, the trip also carried spiritual significance.' However, what I saw on the ground was different'from…...