Parliament-Ottawa
Yesterday in Parliament – June 18, 2013

41st PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Petitions Venezuela Mr. Wladyslaw Lizon (Mississauga East—Cooksville, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I have a petition signed by many Canadians residing in Ontario, many of them Venezuelan Canadians. They would like to bring to the attention of this House the fact that since the last presidential election in Venezuela, democratic, human [...]

June 19, 2013
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Baird Meets Israel’s Prime Minister

June 18, 2013 – Jerusalem, Israel - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird meets Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, during one of several high-level meetings in Jerusalem. The meeting was an opportunity to advance the Strategic Partnership Agreement announced during Baird’s visit to Israel in April. The two men also discussed a number of global [...]

June 19, 2013
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Parliament-Ottawa
Yesterday in Parliament – June 17, 2013

House of Commons Oral Questions Citizenship and Immigration Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims (Newton—North Delta, NDP): Mr. Speaker, again today Canadians are condemning Conservative cuts to refugee health care. These changes hurt some of society’s most vulnerable people. The changes have been confusing, have failed to save money and have downloaded refugee health care costs on to [...]

June 18, 2013
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Aaron Berg and Igal Hecht on “A Universal Language”

We invite you to listen to comedian Aaron Berg and director Igal Hecht discussing the experience of visiting Israel with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, co-sponsored by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Berg was one of 6 comedians, along with Yuk Yuk’s Mark Breslin who made the journey captured on film by Hecht. [...]

June 18, 2013
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PM announces further support for those affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria

June 17, 2013 Enniskillen, Northern Ireland Prior to G-8 Leaders’ discussions today at the Lough Erne Summit in Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced $115 million in new Canadian support that will help address the humanitarian and development challenges both in Syria and in those neighbouring countries receiving refugees. “The brutal Assad regime continues [...]

June 17, 2013
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The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is a non-partisan organization that serves as the advocacy arm of Canada’s Jewish Federations.

Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries

The years following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war witnessed a massive dislocation of civilians in the Middle East. Read more here.

Download the document here. The Canada-Israel bilateral relationship continues to flourish and expand, as it has under the leadership of successive Prime Ministers since the Jewish state was established in [...]
Download this document here. Jews have lived in Canada for more than 250 years, with the first recorded Jewish newcomer settling in Trois-Rivières, Québec, in 1760. Most of the early [...]
The Government of Iran continues to use amputation, flogging, torture, public execution and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishments to impose its will on the Iranian people. Religious, ethnic, linguistic [...]
Download this document here. Each year, students on university campuses across Canada are subjected to various anti-Israel events, including “Israel Apartheid Week.”  While we know that much of the campus community [...]
We are counting down 65 days until Yom Ha’atzmaut, the day commemorating Israel’s declaration of Independence. Why 65 days? Because this year we are celebrating Israel’s 65th year of independence! [...]
Download this document here. BDS is an acronym for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, which seek to delegitimize and isolate Israel, and Israel alone, around the world and in global forums. [...]
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The Government of Canada’s changes to the immigration and refugee system have attracted a great deal of attention over the last few months, particularly from within the Jewish community. Canada [...]
The Government Relations team advocates on behalf of the Jewish community on all levels of government and all major political parties in Canada on a wide-range of domestic and foreign-policy [...]
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The years following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war witnessed a massive dislocation of civilians in the Middle East. As one contemporary observer described the refugee situation: “Hundreds of thousands of men, [...]
Download this document here. Jewish tradition upholds the centrality of ethical obligations to one’s neighbour, which often ties into modern concepts of social justice. These moral imperatives have spurred Jewish [...]
Download this document here. The Jewish community is one of the most consistently targeted victims of hate- and bias-motivated crime, often directed against communal institutions. In 2007, the Government of [...]
Introduction “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and [...]
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Overview The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has provided the following information for your consideration and use. In summary, we have highlighted the following key points as essential to [...]
Download this document here. The Centre believes that the United Nations has an important role to play in international affairs. However, every year, the United Nations General Assembly’s agenda is [...]
Download this document here. The Jewish community of Canada is the country’s most frequent target of hatred. According to successive reports issued by Statistics Canada, the Jewish community is victimized [...]
Download this document here. A short timeline of the history of the peace process in the Middle East 1947 – The United Nations recommends partition with the passage of Resolution [...]
Events change quickly in the Middle East. There are a lot of different factors and players at work. To make things simple, clear, and understandable, here are the basic facts [...]
Parliament-Ottawa
Yesterday in Parliament – June 18, 2013

41st PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Petitions Venezuela Mr. Wladyslaw Lizon (Mississauga East—Cooksville, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I have a petition signed by many Canadians residing in Ontario, many of them [...]

June 19, 2013
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Baird Meets Israel’s Prime Minister

June 18, 2013 – Jerusalem, Israel - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird meets Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, during one of several high-level meetings in Jerusalem. The meeting [...]

June 19, 2013
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Parliament-Ottawa
Yesterday in Parliament – June 17, 2013

House of Commons Oral Questions Citizenship and Immigration Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims (Newton—North Delta, NDP): Mr. Speaker, again today Canadians are condemning Conservative cuts to refugee health care. These changes hurt [...]

June 18, 2013
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Aaron Berg and Igal Hecht on “A Universal Language”

We invite you to listen to comedian Aaron Berg and director Igal Hecht discussing the experience of visiting Israel with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, co-sponsored by Israel’s [...]

June 18, 2013
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PM announces further support for those affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria

June 17, 2013 Enniskillen, Northern Ireland Prior to G-8 Leaders’ discussions today at the Lough Erne Summit in Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced $115 million in new Canadian [...]

June 17, 2013
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A Word from our Chair: Reaching out to a younger demographic

A challenge our community struggles with every day is how to engage the next generation. Youth are the most difficult to connect with and the most critical to the future [...]

June 17, 2013
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