Articles of Interest
- August 30, 2010 - Astounded by Fresh Wisdom and Edible Silkworms
2:30 PM EST - Via The Toronto Star
As our Korean taxi driver rocketed through the streets of Gwangju, I marvelled while our 23-year-old daughter, Gillian, speaking Korean, gave directions to her home.
- August 26, 2010 - U.N. Knew of Rebels in Area of Congo Rapes
3:46 PM EST - Via The New York Times
The United Nations knew Rwandan rebels were occupying villages in eastern Congo at the time the rebels raped nearly 200 women there...
- August 25, 2010 - A Tree Falls in Holland
9:32 AM EST - Via The Toronto Star
She loved its fluttering leaves and small blossoms. To Anne Frank, a spirited Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazi rape of Europe, the massive, ancient chestnut tree she could glimpse from her Amsterdam attic window was a precious sign of life and hope.
- August 23, 2010 - Tree Behind Anne Frank House Falls Over
9:47 AM EST - Via The Globe And Mail
The Anne Frank Museum says the monumental chestnut tree that cheered the teenage diarist while she was in hiding from the Nazis has toppled over.
- August 20, 2010 - Jewish groups to help Pakistan flood victims
10:39 AM EST - Via Jerusalem Post
Jewish organizations have begun raising funds for flood relief in Pakistan, the world’s second most populous Muslim nation.
- August 20, 2010 - Palestinians learn about the Holocaust at Yad Vashem
9:52 AM EST - Via Haaretz Online
Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his occupier.
- August 20, 2010 - Muslim group prays at Dachau
9:32 AM EST - Via Raleigh News & Observer
Something rare took place outside the Dachau concentration camp in Germany this month: A group of Muslim leaders, including eight American imams, prostrated themselves in prayer.
- August 19, 2010 - UJA Pakistan Flood Relief Fund – Donate Now
8:02 AM EST - Via UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Honouring its commitment to tikkun olam, "repairing the world", United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto has created the Pakistan Flood Relief Fund , responding to the country's worst flood in 63 years which has uprooted up to 20 million people.
- August 17, 2010 - Hate Crime Unit Called After Violent Attack
12:14 EST - Via The Langley Advance
An Indo-Canadian man was beaten outside a Langley grocery store in what police say may have been a hate crime attack.
- August 06, 2010 - Israeli lawyers call on Germany to take action against Dutch Nazi war criminal
11:12 AM EST - Via Canadian Press
A group of 150 Israeli lawyers said it is petitioning the government to urge Germany to take action against a convicted Nazi war criminal.
- August 05, 2010 - Iran launches cartoon website aimed at questioning the Holocaust
3:25 PM EST - Via Haaretz.com
Iran has launched a website with cartoons on the Holocaust aimed at undermining the historic dimensions of the mass murder of Jews during World War II, Fars news agency reported Thursday.
- August 04, 2010 - U.N. Supports Israeli Account of Border Clash
2:27 PM EST - Via The New York Times
The United Nations peacekeeping force in South Lebanon, Unifil, said on Wednesday it had concluded that Israeli forces were cutting trees that lay within their own territory before a lethal exchange of fire with Lebanese Army troops on Tuesday, largely vindicating Israel’s account of how the fighting started.
- August 04, 2010 - Muslims and Jews Join Hands
1:25 PM EST - Via The Vancouver Sun
As yet another a border skirmish ensues along the Israeli-Lebanese border, a group of young people in Vienna is strategizing to make the world a better place for Muslims and Jews.
- August 03, 2010 - Closure of Cape Breton’s Oldest Synagogue Marks End of Era
9:26 AM EST - Via The National Post
For 50 years, Mark Chernin had been walking through the front doors of the old synagogue on Prince Street and seeing the same things every time. It was like home to him, or a part of home. He knew the place that well.
- July 30, 2010 - Three B.C. men guilty of assault for racially sparked fight
2:06 PM EST - Via National Post
Three white men who fought a lone black man in an incident that was recorded and posted on YouTube — where it went viral and sparked a major outcry — have been found guilty of common assault by a B.C. judge.
- July 30, 2010 - Nazi suspect faces youth court; German prosecutors reveal gruesome details of charges against alleged ex-death camp guard
12:03 PM EST - Via Toronto Star
The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect was involved in the entire process of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing corpses into mass graves, a German court said Thursday.
- July 29, 2010 - With an Eye Toward Cooperation, Recalling The Holocaust Heroism of Muslims
11:02 AM EST - Via JTA.ORG
In April 1941, members of the Kavilio family of Sarajevo fled their house as Nazis rampaged through the city destroying Jewish homes. As they ran toward the mountainside, a Muslim friend of the family, Mustafa Hardaga, spotted them and offered shelter.
- July 28, 2010 - No Place for Racism, Hate, Intolerance
1:03 PM EST - Via The Hamilton Spectator
The Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario have recently stepped up their collective efforts to combat Internet hatred and extremism.
- July 27, 2010 - Oliver Stone Controversy
4:00 PM EST - Via The New York Times
Oliver Stone found himself the catalyst of an online brush fire on Monday after he made comments published in The Sunday Times of London that were interpreted as anti-Semitic.
- July 26, 2010 - Rwanda Still Pressing Canada to Deport Alleged War Criminal
2:50 PM EST - Via The Vancouver Sun
Five years after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the deportation order against Rwandan Leon Mugesera
- July 23, 2010 - Compromise on census, ex-StatsCan head pleads
10:30 AM - Via Toronto Star
Federal Conservatives are being urged to compromise on their axing of the long census questionnaire, perhaps by repealing the threat of jail time for non-completion or pruning so-called sensitive questions.
- July 22, 2010 - Sudan President Arrives in Chad, Defying International Arrest Warrant for Genocide, War Crimes
11:37 AM EST - Via 660 News
Sudan's president, who faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, travelled to neighbouring Chad on Wednesday
- July 19, 2010 - Government Census Form Decision Long on Critics
11:53 AM EST - Via The Calgary Sun
The Conservative government is refusing to budge on its decision to make the long-form census voluntary, despite mounting criticism from traditional supporters.
- July 16, 2010 - The Shared Extremism of Neo-Nazis and Migrant Youth
1:34 PM EST - Via Spiegel Online
Following an anti-Semitic attack in Hanover, German authorities have identified a new source of anti-Semitic hatred in Germany: young migrants from Muslim families.
- July 16, 2010 - Now End This Darfur Denial
10:06 AM EST - Via Guardian
We have laid charges for genocide. The UN must seize the moment to act for the victims of Sudan
- July 15, 2010 - Iran: Pregnant woman to be stoned to death
4:08 PM EST - Via YNET NEWS
An Iranian court has sentenced two more women to death by stoning, a human rights group reported Thursday, adding the horrific sentence was made worse by the fact that one of the women was pregnant.
- July 13, 2010 - Op-Ed: Saluting a Stand Against Holocaust Denial
3:40 PM EST - JTA
An official Iranian delegation from the city of Shiraz recently visited Weimar, its sister city in Germany.
- July 13, 2010 - For Jews, Swedish City Is a ‘Place To Move Away From’
11:50 AM EST - Via The Jewish Daily Forward
At some point, the shouts of “Heil Hitler” that often greeted Marcus Eilenberg as he walked to the 107-year-old Moorish-style synagogue in this port city forced the 32-year-old attorney to make a difficult, life-changing decision
- July 13, 2010 - Sudan President Charged with Genocide
10:25 AM EST - Via The Jerusalem Post
The International Criminal Court on Monday charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.
- July 12, 2010 - Marching for Pride, not Prejudice
12:59 PM EST - Via The Toronto Star
A week ago, I overcame my aversion to marches and demonstrations by walking in Toronto's Gay Pride Parade. It was my way of responding to the antics of the group that calls itself Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA)
- July 06, 2010 - Not All Apartheid is Created Equal
11:51 AM EST - Via The Toronto Star
Thousands turned out to protest racial discrimination against Palestinians the other day - and with good reason.
- July 05, 2010 - Pro-Israel -- and proud of it ; Jews out in force at gay celebration to protest 'outrageous' group
12:15 PM EST - Via Toronto Sun
Appalled by Pride's decision to allow the controversial group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) in this year's Gay Pride parade, close to 500 members of Toronto's Jewish community marched Sunday in support of gay rights in Israel.
- July 05, 2010 - Loud, proud, peaceful parade; Despite controversies, joyous celebration of tolerance, acceptance rules Pride march
11:30 AM EST - Via Toronto Star
The last time thousands of people marched on Toronto streets, a police car was lit on fire.
- July 03, 2010 - Wrong move on the census
1:32 PM EST - Via Toronto Star
The census is us. It counts (on) all of us - and gives us a portrait of Canada, a snapshot in time that tells the story of our country.
- June 30, 2010 - CJC wishes you a Happy Canada Day! Joyeux Jour du Canada!
From coast to coast - wishing you a Happy Canada Day!
Joyeux Jour du Canada!
- June 25, 2010 - Gay Pride Shoots Itself in The Stiletto On 'Israeli Apartheid' March
12:04 PM EST - Via The Globe And Mail
We took our children to the Toronto gay pride parade when they were 8 and 10...
- June 24, 2010 - Pride & Prejudice
11:37 AM EST - Via The National Post
Bud Light. Via Rail. Pizza Pizza. These companies are among those listed as sponsors for the upcoming Pride Week in Toronto...
- June 24, 2010 - Jewish Dance Group Attacked in Germany
11:33 AM EST - Via AAP
A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the German city of Hannover, police said on Thursday.
- June 18, 2010 - A cancer on the political left
The reflexive hostility to Israel on the democratic left is becoming troubling...
- June 17, 2010 - Davies' goofy views must be denounced
3:30 PM EST VIA - The Province
One wonders if Vancouver East MP Libby Davies has ever imagined what her life would be like if she lived in the Gaza Strip, or in nearly any other Muslim territory.
- June 17, 2010 - No, this newspaper is not an agent of Israeli policy; New anti-Semitism is on the rise
2:00 PM EST VIA - Vancouver Sun
A recent column suggested the prevalence of political spin should temper any rush to judgment over events in the Middle East involving Hamas and Israel.
- June 16, 2010 - Hanging on to the flotilla myth; The left can't distinguish between hateful acts against Jews and Israeli counterterrorism
12:50 PM EST VIA - National Post
It is possible for intelligent people to disagree over the way Israel stopped the flotilla that set out for Gaza from Turkey last month.
- June 15, 2010 - Hate crimes spike in Canada ; Attacks based on sexual orientation more than double from year before
3:00 PM EST VIA - Toronto Sun
The number of hate crimes reported to police in Canada jumped 35% from 2007 to 2008, according to a report released Monday by Statistics Canada, with gay men suffering the most violent attacks.
- June 15, 2010 - Kyrgyzstan burns, Uzbeks flee as world looks on
1:00 PM EST - Via Toronto Star
Southern Kyrgyzstan is ablaze as more than 100,000 ethnic Uzbeks flee in terror from Kyrgyz mobs.
- June 11, 2010 - Thousands take part in Tel Aviv gay pride parade
9:10 AM EST - Via Haaretz
Thousands took part in Tel Aviv's gay pride parade Friday, including several politicians, among them opposition leader and Kadima chairperson Tzipi Livni.
- June 09, 2010 - What Helen Thomas Missed
12:32 PM EST Via The Washington Post
Ah, another teachable moment!
- June 07, 2010 - Krauthammer: Those Troublesome Jews
2:34 PM EST - Via The Washington Post
The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc.
- June 02, 2010 - War Disguised as Aid in Gaza
12:13 PM EST - Via The National Post
Canadians who are sincerely concerned about human rights should ask hard questions about the so-called “peace and human rights activists”
- June 02, 2010 - Latest Footage of Israeli Soldiers Being Attacked on Gaza Flotilla
Please click on the link above to a video which provides close-up footage of Mavi Marmara passengers attacking IDF soldiers
- May 31, 2010 - 'Shalom, Toronto' ; Netanyahu kicks off Walk for Israel
11:44 AM EST - Via The Toronto Sun
Thousands of Jews flocked to the Ricoh Coliseum Sunday morning for a rare Toronto speaking engagement by an Israeli prime minister.
