In the News
- March 10, 2010 - York Suspends Student Calling for Genocide against Jews
York University has suspended a student being investigated by the OPP and Toronto Police Service for anti-Semitic online postings advocating genocide against Jews.
- March 10, 2010 - Throne speech backs Holocaust memorial
The federal government will support legislation to create a national Holocaust memorial in Ottawa.
- March 10, 2010 - York taking ‘disciplinary measures’ against student
York University is investigating a student who allegedly called for the mass murder of Jews, but at the same time, the student appears to be avoiding investigators.
- 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 09, 2010 - Student suspended over web posts
A former University of Toronto Mississauga student who shocked fellow students with his controversial Internet comments on terrorism two years ago has now been suspended by York University for similar comments.
- March 06, 2010 - Opposing perspectives on Israel 'apartheid week'
Anything that promotes the destruction, demonization and delegitimization of Israel, the world's only Jewish state, is inherently anti-Semitic.
- March 05, 2010 - Merchant of Venice poster sparks controversy in Kingston
A poster that used Nazi colours and replaced a swastika with a Star of David to advertise a Queen’s University student production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has been withdrawn.
- March 04, 2010 - York University launches investigation of student running anti-Semitic website; Suspension Possible
York University is taking steps that could result in the suspension of a student after the National Post reported he was being investigated by the Ontario police hate crimes and extremism unit.
- March 03, 2010 - Police probe man's anti-Semitic posts; York student investigated for 'Filthy Jew' site
Just months after Ontario decided not to charge a Toronto man with hate crimes, partly because he was undergoing rehabilitation, he is again being investigated over his online writings on a website called Filthy Jewish Terrorists.
- March 02, 2010 - Pius XII - Examining the Catholic-Jewish divide
The last time Rabbi Roy Tanenbaum and Redemptorist Father Paul Hansen shared these pages they discussed the idea of Jesus as Torah . With the help of Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto we’ve invited them back to discuss the controversy surrounding the possible sainthood of Pope Pius XII, who was pontiff during the Holocaust.
- February 24, 2010 - Nova Scotians voice support for interracial couple subjected to cross-burning
Police were on the hunt Tuesday for at least two people and a vehicle believed to be involved in a weekend cross-burning on the front lawn of an interracial couple in rural Nova Scotia.
- February 24, 2010 - Jewish groups appeal for calm over chassidic schools
Quebec Jewish Congress (QJC) is warning the government opposition, unions and media not to make a small number of chassidic schools the lightning rod for what is promising to be an anguished debate over the province’s “identity” and how that can be reconciled with accommodation of religious minorities.
- February 19, 2010 - Action needed on war crimes
Bernie Farber's piece about war criminals and the slow Canadian court system is, unhappily, accurate. The fact that we are finally acting on other, newer cases of war crimes in the world is...
- February 19, 2010 - Rabbi Bulka awarded key to city; Jewish leader 'hugely important' to Ottawans: mayor
During a candlelit reception at Jean Pigott Place inside City Hall Thursday night, Ottawans gathered to celebrate the decades-long commitment of Rabbi Reuven Bulka by awarding him a key to the city.
- February 18, 2010 - Le Congrès juif applaudit
Le Congrès juif québécois (CJQ) applaudit les modifications au calendrier scolaire que propose la ministre de l’Éducation, Michelle Courchesne, qui permettraient de régulariser la situation des écoles privées juives illégales.
- February 18, 2010 - Hate-hunting Is There A New Anti-semitism?
The Tories may have put Parliament on ice, but that doesn’t mean MPs in the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism have folded up their hearings.
- 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 - Minister lauds 'historic' pact with Jewish private schools Forbidding teaching on Sundays offends secular principle, rabbi argues
The controversy sparked by proposed changes to Quebec's school calendar has put a handful of Jewish schools in probably the last place they'd like to be - at the centre of a political dust-up.
- February 16, 2010 - Minister lauds 'historic' pact with Jewish private schools; Forbidding teaching on Sundays offends secular principle, rabbi argues
The controversy sparked by proposed changes to Quebec's school calendar has put a handful of Jewish schools in probably the last place they'd like to be - at the centre of a political dust-up.
- February 14, 2010 - Debate over accommodation returns in Quebec; Minorities; Jewish schools allowed to open on Sundays
MONTREAL - An editorial cartoon yesterday in one of Montreal's main daily newspapers, La Presse, portrayed Quebec Education Minister Michelle Courchesne as a Hasidic man, with earlocks, a round fur hat and long black coat. The headline above a column in the tabloid Journal
- February 14, 2010 - Deux écoles juives refusent toujours le programme du ministère.
Deux écoles juives refusent toujours le programme du ministère : Québec s'en remet aux avocats.
- February 13, 2010 - Calendrier scolaire: la ministre Courchesne s'explique
La ministre de l'Éducation persiste et signe: les modifications au régime pédagogique ne cachent pas d'accommodement pour les écoles juives. Qu'on se le dise, il s'agit d'abord et avant tout d'un règlement visant la réussite et la persévérance scolaire.
- February 13, 2010 - Sunday school for Jews renews identity debate Uproar In Quebec Nationalists fight 'concessions' to minorities
An editorial cartoon yesterday in one of Montreal's main daily newspapers, La Presse, portrayed Quebec Education Minister Michelle Courchesne as a Hasidic man, with earlocks, a round fur hat and long black coat.
- February 12, 2010 - Nouveau calendrier scolaire - Les commissions scolaires en colère
Les commissions scolaires s'opposent au nouveau calendrier scolaire que veut imposer Michelle Courchesne afin d'accommoder les écoles juives orthodoxes et craignent aussi qu'il soit appliqué de façon générale à l'ensemble des écoles publiques du Québec.
- February 12, 2010 - La grogne s'amplifie contre la ministre Courchesne
La ministre Michelle Courchesne relance tout le débat autour des accommodements raisonnables en légalisant les activités de six écoles privées juives orthodoxes.
- February 12, 2010 - Jewish Congress defends change to school calendar
A change in Quebec's school calendar which would permit three Orthodox Jewish schools a sixth day for classes, would allow those schools to teach the full Quebec curriculum, says Adam Atlas, president of the Quebec Jewish Congress.
- February 10, 2010 - Congress, United Church patch up differences
Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Church of Canada appear to have resolved their differences over the Church’s links to a Jewish organization that’s highly critical of Israel.
- February 09, 2010 - Video with Nazi link still being shown to torchbearers
Those on their way to run with the Olympic torch in the Lower Mainland were still being shown a controversial video yesterday, despite promises from VANOC last week that the video had been withdrawn.
- February 06, 2010 - Hate; From a virtual racist island to the finer points of propaganda:
The Island of the White Supremacists is not, as it might sound, a Survivorstyle reality show in extraordinarily poor taste.
- February 06, 2010 - Canadian Jews condemn acquittal of U.S. neo-Nazi; Lawyer Threatened
An American neo-Nazi who advocated killing an Ottawa activist and overthrowing the Canadian government by force has been acquitted of uttering threats.
- February 06, 2010 - VANOC pulls Nazi torch clip from website
The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee has pulled a clip from its torch relay video, a move which comes after drawing the ire this week from Canada's Jewish community over the inclusion of Leni Riefenstahl's ``Olympia,'' a Nazi propaganda film commissioned by Adolf Hitler about the 1936 Berlin games.
- February 06, 2010 - Faith appeals for Haiti
Anyone who regularly prays from a pew, bows in a mosque or worships in a temple simply could not miss recent appeals by their religious leaders to help the people of Haiti.
- February 05, 2010 - Nazi-Era Images Get Video Cancelled
VANOC will no longer show a controversial promotional video for the Olympic torch relay that used footage from a film by Leni Riefenstahl, who made propaganda films for Adolf Hitler, including Triumph of the Will.
- February 04, 2010 - Video Using Riefenstahl Footage Is Withdrawn
The organizers of the Vancouver Games withdrew an official video for their Olympic torch relay after the Canadian Jewish Congress and others questioned its use of footage from “Olympia,” Leni Riefenstahl’s film of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
- February 03, 2010 - Who speaks for Jews?
I take issue with Yakov M. Rabkin's assertion that the Canadian Jewish Congress is blackmailing the United Church over the issue of a fringe Jewish group.
- February 03, 2010 - Who speaks for Jews?
Professor Yakov Rabkin and Reverend Robert Assalay both defend the rump group of anti-Zionist and often anti-Israel Jews and non-Jews known as "Independent Jewish Voices" while attacking the mainstream Canadian Jewish Congress.
- February 03, 2010 - Critics fired up over torch-relay video
Before their run with the Olympic flame, torchbearers are loaded onto shuttle buses for the drive to their spot on the route.
- February 02, 2010 - CJC and United Church Resolve Differences
Canadian Jewish Congress met on Monday morning with leaders from the United Church of Canada (UCC) in a successful attempt to save their longstanding relationship after a year of unprecedented tension.
- February 02, 2010 - Ranking the evils of the world
If the world is more aware of Adolf Hitler's Holocaust against the Jews than Joseph Stalin's genocidal treatment of Ukrainians, then it is because individuals like Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress have dedicated their lives to making sure the world never forgets what happens when anti-Jewish hatred is given even the smallest measure of legitimacy.
- February 02, 2010 - Vancouver readies to welcome the world for Olympics
A Vancouver business association sought to spread the Olympic spirit of friendship and peace by displaying pictures of flags from around the world alongside a walkway – but someone apparently didn’t get the message.
- February 01, 2010 - CJC, UCC Agree to Path for Future Dealings
Representatives of Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Church of Canada met this morning February 1st to discuss issues pertaining to the relationship between the two groups and to seek ways of promoting ongoing dialogue, to hear each others concerns.
- January 29, 2010 - United Church, Jewish group try to reconcile; At 'breaking point'
The United Church of Canada and the country's largest Jewish group will meet next week to try to salvage a relationship marked by nearly a year of unprecedented tension, the National Post has learned.
- January 29, 2010 - 'Jan. 27 is a day I feel deep in my heart'
I surveyed many newspapers on Wednesday but it was only the National Post that saw fit to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Bernie Farber's column...
- January 28, 2010 - Anti-Semitism Surges In Western Europe
The year 2009 will be remembered for an historic increase in anti-Semitic incidents, particularly in Western Europe, where a pattern of violent attacks is particularly worrying, says a new report.
- January 27, 2010 - Jews share a special bond with suffering people in Haiti, Darfur
If solidarity is built through shared suffering, the state of Israel surely has a special bond with countries afflicted by crisis.
- January 27, 2010 - Serving a Broader World
Jewish organizations internationally, nationally and locally are committed to the well-being of their constituents.
- January 27, 2010 - CJN Editorial
Shabbat services this past weekend in countless synagogues across the country were dedicated to recalling the ongoing genocide and depredations in Darfur.
- January 27, 2010 - Shuls across Canada mark ‘Darfur Shabbat’
Last week, congregations in at least 12 Jewish communities across the country were preparing for Canadian Jewish Congress’ “Darfur Shabbat,” which took place this past weekend.
- January 22, 2010 - CJC dedicates a Shabbat to Darfur
Canadian Jewish Congress partnering with synagogues across Canada to dedicate portion of this Shabbat's service to stopping genocide by focusing on what Canadian Jewish community can do to help
