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By BERNIE BELLAN David Matas, expert on human rights and counsel to B’nai Brith Canada, spoke at the Gwen Secter Centre on Thursday, July 11, to...
By SAM MARGOLIS (Canadian Jewish News) Several encampments which have occupied Canadian universities since April have been dismantled, a week after an Ontario Supreme Court granted...
University of California, Santa Barbara student body president Tessa Veksler on Feb. 26, 2024. Photo: Instagram JNS.org – “Never would I have imagined that I’d need...
Vandals have targeted notable Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati, Ohio and Montreal, Canada, sparking outcry and concern over mounting threats of antisemitism. Vandals at Montreal’s Kehal Yisrael...
As I sat in an anthropology lecture at the University of British Columbia, we debated the question: What is a unifying national identity for Canadians? In...
By GERRY POSNER This is my story, but it just as easily could have been yours. Even at my older age, a new relative popped into...
By MARTIN ZEILIG As a private citizen, Kevin Leach is following the example of the Government of Canada by providing much needed assistance to our democratic...
Political commentator Candace Owens claimed on Friday that the US is being held “hostage” by Israel and suggested that AIPAC, the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in...
By BERNIE BELLAN The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba had a very successful year in 2023, with almost $7 million distributed in grants. And, sometime in 2024...
By HENRY SREBRNIK Is so-called “anti-Zionism” antisemitic? It was not always so. Prior to the Holocaust and the creation of a Jewish state, many Jews did...
By BERNIE BELLAN Seven years ago, along with Tamar Barr and Gayle Waxman of the Rady JCC, I helped to start something called the Jewish Business...
An aerial view shows the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip lying on the ground...
Yahya al-Sinwar, head of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends a meeting with people at a hall on the seashore in Gaza...
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to the media following a meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, US, July 17,...
By MYRON LOVE Conflict often produces acts of heroism – but it is not only warriors who become heroes. As Sarah Mali noted, heroism can come...
By MYRON LOVE Josh Assor has a lengthy history, both with “Mary Poppins” and Rainbow Stage. So it would seem to be a no-brainer for Canada’s...
By MARTIN ZEILIG “When I first walked into school, the hall was filled with bright colours.“Bright shining stars/ I was amazed by the others.“But, my colour...
“Teddy Roosevelt’s great-great-great grandson is an anti-Israel protester at Princeton,” blared a New York Post headline on May 4, 2024.The Post reported that Quentin Colon Roosevelt,...
We received the following email about a group that will be holding a formative meeting via Zoom this month: Dear Friends,Many of you may have heard...
Contributed by DOMINIC MARTIN Did you know that a mere four hour flight from London lies a self-proclaimed Arab state chafing under a decades-long occupation? And...
