Articles of Interest
- March 09, 2010 - York suspends student for Internet posts
A Toronto man has been suspended from York University after the National Post reported he was under police investigation over his controversial Internet postings.
- March 09, 2010 - York U Student Investigated for Anti-Semitic Website
York University is taking “appropriate disciplinary actions” against a student being investigated by hate crimes units of the Ontario Provincial Police and Toronto Police Service for anti-Semitic postings on a conspiracy-theory website that advocate genocide against Jews.
- March 08, 2010 - Jewish group questions TTC advisory panel choice; Confrontation; Incoming York student president sanctioned
A local Jewish federation is questioning the Toronto Transit Commission's decision to appoint York University student Krisna Saravanamuttu to its new customer service advisory panel.
- March 06, 2010 - Unique week gets mixed reviews ; UWO: Several events were held to mark Israeli Apartheid Week
Spread lies and hatred or inform and educate. The function of Israeli Apartheid Week all depends on whom you talk to. And there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
- March 05, 2010 - Apartheid Week: 'An ad campaign, not a movement'
"In 10 years, people are going to think about Israel and apartheid as somehow connected," says Toronto Jewish leader.
- March 04, 2010 - Boycott Israel and boycott life-saving medical advances
The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is taking place this week on campuses in Toronto and in dozens of cities worldwide.
- March 04, 2010 - Schindler's list survivor shares his story
At the end of acclaimed Steven Spielberg opus Schindler's List, colour fades in, singing fades up and 1,200 Holocaust survivors march on the horizon.
- March 04, 2010 - Ryerson racism probe not fair: critics
The "sweeping year-long probe" that found rampant racism at Ryerson University reported allegations as if they were fact, ignored mitigating context and misrepresented how Jewish faculty feel about criticism of Israel, critics say.
- March 04, 2010 - Jew haters don't make it obvious;
Look, we Jews know we could instantly put a stop to the sixth annual festival of international Jew-hatred known as Israeli Apartheid Week.
- March 04, 2010 - Event worries Jewish leaders
Jewish leaders are urging their community not to take the bait when organizers of Israel Apartheid Week bring their campaign to the University of Manitoba next week for the first time.
- March 03, 2010 - Jewish Students Respond to Israel Apartheid Week
The 6th Israel Apartheid Week started on Monday in campuses across Canada and around the world.
- March 03, 2010 - Pro-Israel campaign says size isn’t everything
Cherniak, chair of Israel affairs and advocacy for the Canadian Federation of Jewish Students (CFJS), helped organize the Size Doesn’t Matter campaign, which uses videos, a website and a speaker series to highlight Israel’s accomplishments in medicine, technology, science, business and humanitarian aid.
- March 02, 2010 - Rat let out of his cage
A porked-up Ernst Zundel, the Hitler-loving zealot deported from Toronto as a security risk in 2005 after twice being refused Canadian citizenship, was released from a German prison Monday after serving five years for the crime of denying the Holocaust.
- March 02, 2010 - A festival of bigotry; Israeli Apartheid Week is a disgrace that our leaders are correct to denounce
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), which began on Monday on dozens of university campuses, is an odious and bigoted annual ritual.
- March 02, 2010 - An uneasy peace in a forgotten war
Once a cause celebre, Darfur is yesterday's genocide. Overshadowed by misery in Haiti and strife in Afghanistan, Sudan can't compete in a world wearied by disaster fatigue.
- March 01, 2010 - A record haul, a nation's triumph
After 17 remarkable days, Canada rediscovers itself as a proud, resilient nation. With 14 gold medals, we are now the nation to beat.
- February 28, 2010 - Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap
WARSAW -- When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God...
- February 27, 2010 - Witnesses to a bygone Montreal; McCord shows works by Jewish painters who depicted city life of the 1930s and '40s in Modernist styles
Art is a conversation. It speaks of the plight of others, expresses complex emotional and conceptual ideas, and can make unfamiliar experiences more immediate and accessible. In the...
- February 27, 2010 - Hatefest embarrassing
As a Canadian of Arab origin and an advocate of gay rights, I am doubly embarrassed by this "hatefest" against Israel and the Jews on our university campuses.
- February 26, 2010 - MPPs decry linking Israel to 'apartheid'; In rare show of political unity, legislators join in denouncing 'odious' name of campus event
In a rare show of unanimity, Ontario MPPs of all political stripes have banded together to condemn "Israeli Apartheid Week."
- February 25, 2010 - The dark side of a yearly ritual
Beginning Monday, university campuses play host to an annual event known as Israeli Apartheid Week, where Israel is assigned the role of Jew among the nations -- singled-out, cursed and harassed.
- February 24, 2010 - Two charged in Nova Scotia cross-burning
Two young men have been arrested and charged in connection with a cross-burning in rural Nova Scotia on Sunday.
- February 22, 2010 - Cross burned on Nova Scotia couple's lawn.
The RCMP may consider hate-crime charges after a two-metre high wooden cross was burned and racial slurs hurled Sunday outside the home of an interracial couple in rural Hants County, N.S.
- February 22, 2010 - Police report makeshift bomb hurled at Cairo synagogue failed to detonate causing no injuries
A man hurled a suitcase containing a makeshift bomb at Cairo's main downtown synagogue in the early hours Sunday morning, but there were no injuries or damage, police said.
- February 22, 2010 - Hungary's parliament makes Holocaust denial a crime, but bill may be unconstitutional
Hungary's parliament on Monday approved a bill making Holocaust denial punishable by up to three years in prison, but the measure may be unconstitutional.
- February 18, 2010 - Catholics ask Pope to slow path for Pius XII; Clear Record First; Accused of turning blind eye to Holocaust
Top Roman Catholic scholars have written an unusual and impassioned private letter to Pope Benedict urging him to slow down the sainthood procedure for the wartime Pope Pius XII, accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust.
- February 18, 2010 - Holocaust denier deported from Canada is slated to be freed in Germany
Ernst Zundel, the far-right activist deported from Canada in 2005, will soon be released from prison after serving his five-year sentence for denying the Holocaust, a German prosecutor said Wednesday.
- February 16, 2010 - Vatican WW II Archives to go Online
Part of the Vatican archives dating from World War II will soon be available online, stated the Holy See's l'Osservatore Romano daily this week.
- February 16, 2010 - Kindness on display at blood clinic ; Importance of gift of life inspires donors on Family Day
Blood is always needed, but when one can give the gift of life on a day chosen to remember a life -- the act takes on even more meaning.
- February 12, 2010 - Cut! Cameron blasts Israel boycotts
Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has strongly condemned efforts to boycott Israeli artists after his name was wrongly added to one such recent petition.
- February 12, 2010 - Accommodements raisonnables La ministre critiquée
La ministre de l'Éducation Michelle Courchesne a dû affronter un feu nourri de protestation devant la possible normalisation d’écoles privées juives qu’entraînerait la modification des périodes de congé obligatoire
- February 12, 2010 - Cameron, Fonda shun boycott roles
Organizers of last summer's boycott of the Toronto International Film Festival who are now turning their sights to a student film festival in Tel Aviv have inadvertently raised the ire of two of Hollywood's biggest stars, director James Cameron and actress Jane Fonda.
- February 10, 2010 - New anti-Semitism threatens democracy: British MP
A Sudanese minister compares the failure to reach consensus at the recent Copenhagen climate change conference to the Holocaust.
- February 06, 2010 - Ryerson U told to crack down on racist 'chill'
A sweeping year-long probe into racism at Ryerson University has found a staggeringly diverse campus where some visible minority students say they feel harassed and excluded, where profs don't always deal with offensive comments made in class and some non-white staff report a "chill" that shuts them out of the power loop.
- February 06, 2010 - York School honours Holocaust survivor; 'Inspiring Story'; 85-year-old accepts diploma, decades after war
A Toronto businessman who narrowly escaped the Holocaust as a teenager was awarded an honorary diploma from a Summerhill private school yesterday morning.
- February 05, 2010 - Britain's Gordon Brown condemns record number of UK anti-Semitic incidents
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday condemned the record-breaking rise in anti-Semitic incidents last year, urging Britons to be alert to the threat of ant-Jewish hate.
- February 05, 2010 - Schooling students on horrors of war; Local school gives Holocaust survivor the diploma he couldn't have
Students and staff at a Toronto school are giving a local Holocaust survivor something hatred took away.
- February 04, 2010 - Bashir may face genocide charges; appeal ruling Sudan dismisses decision as political
The International Criminal Court yesterday opened the possibility of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir being charged with genocide in Darfur.
- February 03, 2010 - La CPI va trancher la question du génocide au Soudan
La chambre d'appel de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) de La Haye a cassé mercredi un jugement affirmant que des preuves suffisantes n'avaient pas été fournies pour fonder une inculpation de génocide contre le président du Soudan, Omar Hassan al Bachir.
- February 02, 2010 - Oberlander won't face appeal
The federal government won't appeal a court decision last fall that ostensibly restored Helmut Oberlander's citizenship.
- January 28, 2010 - Survivors, liberators, leaders mark Auschwitz anniversary
Sirens wailed as Auschwitz survivors, Soviet veterans and leaders including Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday marked the 65th anniversary of the notorious Nazi German death camp's liberation.
- January 28, 2010 - 'Never again' always
It was fitting that Israel Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, was one of the rabbis reciting the Mourner's Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, Wednesday at ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
- January 27, 2010 - There may be hope for Sudan
An alarm is being raised that Sudan may be on the brink of returning to full scale war.
- January 26, 2010 - Haiti Journal: Doing disaster relief
Arele Klein, a volunteer for the ZAKA disaster relief organization in Israel, shares his experiences and thoughts in the following journal from the earthquake zone in Haiti.
- January 25, 2010 - 'Anti-Semitism highest since WWII'
Anti-Semitic incidents in western Europe peaked to a level not seen since the close ofWorld War II, according to numbers released by the Jewish Agency on Sunday, three days before the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- January 24, 2010 - Children of Auschwitz recall liberation 65 years on
Kazimiera Wasiak is a 76-year-old Polish pensioner who will forever remain a child of Auschwitz.
- January 23, 2010 - What should be our response to the tragedy in Haiti?
Our response to the tragedy in Haiti should be as it has been -- instant, massive, focused and generous. Our government's reaction was exemplary
- January 21, 2010 - Intent to injure
The death of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang in Afghanistan was heartbreaking.
- January 20, 2010 - Vancouverites send help to Haiti; Jewish group raises more than $20,000
As international aid organizations rush in, Vancouver-based nonprofit organizations are also sending money, supplies and personnel to help with Haiti relief efforts following last week's earthquake.
- January 18, 2010 - Haiti Relief Update: Jewish Community Raises Funds, Government to Match Tzedakah, Canadians and Israelis on the Ground to Help
In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Jewish community of Canada is mobilized and is sending badly-needed funds to help address this massive humanitarian tragedy.
