In the News
- August 31, 2010 - Daniel Libeskind memorial to mark Canada's refusal of Jews in 1939
10:03 AM EST - Via Globe and Mail
Crafted from steel and carved in a never-ending circle, a monument to be built by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind will be the first Canadian tribute to the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that the Canadian government turned away in 1939.
- August 31, 2010 - CJC Congratulates Daniel Libeskind on St. Louis Monument Project
10:35 AM EST
Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) is delighted to announce today that internationally-acclaimed architect and designer Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design and create an historical monument -
- August 30, 2010 - Daniel Libeskind to design MS St. Louis monument
7:30 PM EST - Via Toronto Star
They started out from Hamburg on May 27, 1939, on the MS St. Louis. They were a small group — about 900 plus Jews looking for a place to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
- 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 30, 2010 - Election Signs Delayed by Jewish Holidays
2:22 PM EST - Via Inside Toronto
Toronto councillors have cut by four days the period people can display municipal candidates' signs out of consideration to the city's Jewish community.
- August 27, 2010 - Arrests a 'serious problem' for Canadian Muslims
12:12 PM EST - Via CTV Online
A prominent Canadian Muslim group is calling for the condemnation of the doctrine of armed jihad and says there is a "serious problem" with radicalized Canadian youth in light of the recent terror arrests in Ottawa.
- August 27, 2010 - Al Jazeera’s Here. Where’s the Fury?
10:32 AM EST - Via Macleans
It took years for Al Jazeera English to be allowed into this country, accompanied by quite a bit of controversy.
- August 26, 2010 - Canadian Jewish Congress Commends Arrests in Alleged Ottawa Terror Cell
12:30 PM EST
Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) commends the RCMP and CSIS for yesterday's arrests in Ottawa of individuals allegedly involved in a secret terrorist cell with suspected ties to Al-Qaeda.
- August 26, 2010 - Government Working to Remember Dark Times
12:46 PM EST - Via Embassy
“Canada’s complicated migrant ship experience,” (Aug. 18) The article claims that the government has apologized for Canada’s denial of entry to the 900-plus Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis in 1939. This is incorrect.
- August 26, 2010 - Board Should Change Whitton Decision
10:50 AM EST - Via The Ottawa Citizen
As co-chairs of the Canadian Holocaust Survivors Association (CHSA), we are heartened to learn that the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada will now reconsider whether or not former Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton should be recognized as a person of national historic significance.
- August 24, 2010 - La première mairesse d'Ottawa crée encore la controverse
3:40 PM EST - Via Le Droit
Révérée par les uns, haïe par les autres, Charlotte Whitton ne laissait personne indifférent, à l'époque où elle faisait la pluie et le beau temps à l'hôtel de ville d'Ottawa.
- August 24, 2010 - Board to Revisit Whitton Decision
9:32 AM EST - Via The Ottawa Citizen
After objections from the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada will reconsider whether former Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton should be recognized as a person of national historic significance.
- August 24, 2010 - Anne Frank Tree Toppled by Storm
9:28 AM EST - Via The Globe and Mail
On Monday at 1:30 p.m. local time, pushed by winds and rains, battered by rot and moths, the Anne Frank tree fell down, breaking through its iron supports, and crashed into a courtyard in Amsterdam.
- August 23, 2010 - Many Celebrated Canadians Held Racist Views Unacceptable Today.
1:44 PM EST - Via The Ottawa Citizen
At least a dozen Canadians who've been formally recognized for their historic significance - including a past prime minister - harboured racial attitudes that would be deemed unacceptable today.
- August 19, 2010 - Whitton's anti-Semitic actions are unforgivable
9:08 AM EST - Via Ottawa Citizen
Thanks to the stellar work of historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper, I have long known about the undisguised anti-Semitic attitudes of former mayor Charlotte Whitton.
- 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 18, 2010 - The case against Whitton
10:08 AM EST - Via Ottawa Citizen
An anti-Semitic streak that caused the deaths of Jewish children should disqualify Ottawa's first female mayor from any modern honours.
- August 16, 2010 - Jewish Congress Opposes Plan to Honour Mayor; Calls her 'Anti-Semite'
1:24 PM EST - Via The National Post
The Canadian Jewish Congress will oppose official recognition for Charlotte Whitton, mayor of Ottawa...
- August 16, 2010 - 'A Privilege Many Nations Do Not Have'; Thousands Turn Out for Gay Pride Parade
12:57 PM EST - Via Montreal Gazette
Everyone wanted to be part of the gay pride parade yesterday but the crowd.
- August 12, 2010 - QJC, Anti-Israel Group in Gay Pride Parade
9:58 AM EST - Via Canadian Jewish News
Quebec Jewish Congress (QJC) is asking any elected officials planning to take part in this Sunday’s gay pride parade in Montreal to dissociate themselves from the group Queers Come Out Against Israeli Apartheid (QCOAIA)
- August 12, 2010 - Civility Is Not A Sign Of Weakness
1:10 PM EST - Via Shalom Life
In his 1961 Inaugural Address, President John F. Kennedy admonished both sides of the Cold War divide that “civility is not a sign of weakness”
- August 12, 2010 - L'indignation Sélective
11:24 AM EST- Via Le Devoir
Le 15 août prochain, dans une ambiance festive et colorée, le rejet de la discrimination sera au coeur du défilé annuel de la Fierté de Montréal.
- August 12, 2010 - Federal Security Funding Aids Jewish Orgs
11:18 AM EST - Via The Canadian Jewish News
Federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews was in Toronto this week for more announcements related to security funding for Jewish organizations.
- August 10, 2010 - Feds help Toronto Jewish groups fight hate
4:10 PM EST - Via Toronto Sun
Six Toronto Jewish groups are getting federal cash to combat hate crimes, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday.
- August 10, 2010 - Montreal newspaper defends Jewish cartoon
2:09 PM EST - Via Montreal Gazette
A local Montreal newspaper said it did not mean to offend the Jewish community by printing a cartoon depicting a Hasidic Jew with a taxi cab, but nonetheless defended itself, saying a cartoon is meant to be an exaggeration of the characters and the broader situation, and anyone could be the subject of one.
- August 10, 2010 - "Shalom ! Bonjour ! Sainte-Agathe" : la rencontre des cultures
9:02 AM EST - Via Point de Vue Laurentides
Pour une deuxième année consécutive, le Congrès juif québécois (CJQ) présente, en collaboration avec la ville de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, le spectacle gratuit "Shalom ! Bonjour ! Sainte-Agathe" le 5 août à 19 h 30 à la place Lagny.
- August 09, 2010 - Canadian Jewish Congress and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto commend Federal Government for Security Infrastructure Program grants
Canadian Jewish Congress once again thanks the Government of Canada for its continuing support of vulnerable communities, including the Jewish community
- August 05, 2010 - Start Worrying - Details to Follow
9:31 AM EST - Via Shalom Life
This, according to one wag, is the quintessential Jewish telegram. I was reminded of this the other day by a cartoon in a book of Jewish humour showing a guy posting flyers with a picture of his dog, announcing that it was “not lost—yet.”
- August 04, 2010 - Government That Listens?
2:46 PM EST - Via The Globe and Mail
At a news conference on Tuesday, Treasury Board President Stockwell Day said he heard only three complaints about the government's abolition of the long-form census questionnaire, suggesting that there's no interest.
- August 03, 2010 - Police Acting Quickly To Bring In Racists Involved In Anti-Chinese Graffiti
3:48 PM EST - The Link Paper
There has been much public outcry over recent acts of vandalism and appalling racist graffiti at Empire Center in Richmond and police need to take quick action to bring in the rest of the racists behind this hateful act after they arrested the ringleader, who was seen in a video breaking a Richmond mall parkade surveillance camera.
- July 28, 2010 - Jewish Orgs Decry Plan to Scrap Long-Form Census
3:40 PM EST - Via Canadian Jewish News
Jewish and other faith communities have denounced it, the head of Statistics Canada resigned over it, and hundreds of national charities, businesses, think-tanks and social service agencies are fuming because of the federal government’s recent decision to scrap the 2011 mandatory long-form census.
- July 27, 2010 - Census Cynicism? Worries Raised Over Response Rates for 2011 Census and Survey
12:24 PM EST - Via Canada East
Will Canadians want to fill out a voluntary national survey next year, or even the mandatory short census, after hearing the Conservative government criticize the activity?
- July 26, 2010 - How The Census Went From a Quinquennial Chore To a National Crisis
1:00 PM EST - Via Macleans
“Wrong,” Tony Clement typed to an entity calling itself Harbles. “Statisticians can ensure validity with a larger sample size.”
- July 23, 2010 - Shalom! Bonjour! Sainte-Agathe.
Le Congrés juif québécois et la Ville de Sainte-Agathe présentent. Shalom! Bonjour! Sainte-Agathe, le 5 août.
- July 22, 2010 - Web Host Silences Fugitive
11:10 AM EST - Via The Mississauga News
A website used by a Mississauga man who was recently charged with promoting genocide against Jews has been taken down.
- July 22, 2010 - Kulanu Thanks Community Groups (Letter)
9:55 AM EST - Via The Canadian Jewish News
Thank you so much for article about the July 4 Toronto Pride Parade and our work in defending the State of Israel against those such as Queers Against Israeli Apartheid...
- July 22, 2010 - PIER 21 - Part of Our Heritage as Canadian Jews
9:40 AM EST - Via The Winnipeg Jewish Review
Our family recently returned from a vacation in the Maritimes. We have always wanted to visit this part of our great country and this summer we realized this dream.
- July 21, 2010 - A list of groups opposed to scrapping of long-form census
1:04 PM EST - Via Canadian Press
Some of the groups that have publicly opposed the federal government's decision to move from a mandatory long-form census to a voluntary survey in 2011
- July 20, 2010 - Internet Company Pulls Plug on Extremist Websites
3:44 PM EST - Via The National Post
A U.S. Internet company pulled the plug on the websites of a Canadian extremist today after receiving a complaint from Canada’s Attorney-General.
- 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 19, 2010 - Rabbi Bulka blesses the Queen
11:47 AM EST - Via The Canadian Jewish News
When just a few weeks ago I received a kind invitation from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen, to attend a dinner to celebrate the 2010 Royal Tour of Canada of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, I was more than delighted.
- July 16, 2010 - Doctors protest census changes; Elimination of the long-form questionnaire could jeopardize health care, medical journal warns
12:30 PM EST - Via Toronto Star
The Conservative decision to axe the long-form census will cost health planners a vital source of data that will ultimately undermine health-care nationwide, a respected Canadian medical journal warns.
- July 16, 2010 - Jewish, Evangelical groups oppose census change
10:15 AM EST - Via CTV NEWS
The top Jewish and Evangelical Christian organizations in Canada have joined the surging wave of opposition to the Conservative government's axing of next year's long census.
- July 14, 2010 - The 2010 World Religions Summit
1:08 PM EST - Via The Canadian Jewish News
The G8 and G20 nations of the world gathered in Ontario in June to explore solutions to the world’s greatest concerns...
- July 13, 2010 - Taking the Measure of a Country
9:00 AM EST - Via Shalom Life
As the Children of Israel wandered through the desert, G-d commanded Moses on several occasions to take a headcount of the community, or some specific sub-group within it.
- July 12, 2010 - Muslim Group Backs Charges Against extremist
1:03 PM EST - Via The National Post
The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations yesterday voiced its support for the unprecedented hate-crimes charges laid against a Canadian extremist...
- July 09, 2010 - Taking the Measure of a Country
2:00 PM EST - Via The Shalom Life
As the Children of Israel wandered through the desert, G-d commanded Moses on several occasions to take a headcount of the community, or some specific sub-group within it. A couple of these census-takings occur in the Book of Bemidbar, AKA, appropriately, Numbers.
- July 09, 2010 - Mississauga man accused of promoting genocide
9:46 AM EST - Via Toronto Star
The Ontario Provincial Police held a news conference Thursday to announce hate crime charges have been laid against a Mississauga man who is believed to have left the country and may never be returned to Canada to face trial.
- July 09, 2010 - Fantino vows to track down website author
8:32 AM EST - Via The National Post
The Ontario Provincial Police have vowed to track down a Canadian extremist who has been charged with promoting genocide, even as the Bangladesh-based fugitive continues to advocate for the "extermination" of Jews on his website.
- July 08, 2010 - Ontario Police Set to Charge Muslim Extremist
9:46 AM EST - Via The National Post
Over the past three years, Salman Hossain has openly called for terrorist attacks in Canada, cheered the killing of Canadian troops in Afghanistan and urged fellow Muslims to “exterminate” Canada’s Jewish population.
