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Bloomberg’s ‘Riskless Return Ranking’ says Israeli market ‘produced better risk-adjusted returns than all other developed stock markets in the past decade’ Israel is one of the safest choices for investors, a recent Bloomberg report stated. According to a Tuesday report in Yedioth Ahronoth, Bloomberg’s most recent “Riskless Return Ranking” concluded that for the most part, [...] On Monday, February 20th, Richard Marceau, General Counsel and Senior Government Advisor at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, served as an expert witness for the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Representing the Centre’s perspective on Section 1 of the Justice for Victims of Terror Act, Marceau made a forceful case in [...] Richard Marceau, General Counsel and Senior Government Advisor at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, discusses his recently published book “A Quebec Jew: From Bloc Québécois MP to Jewish Activist” with Michael Coren on The Arena. By Lillian Swanson Those who came to hear Judea Pearl speak last night at an event sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center‘s Museum of Tolerance might have expected to be offered an array of numbers, shown detailed charts or even be given a sense of whether anti-Semitism was getting better or worse. Instead, he handed them something [...] Recently, the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) proposed its own codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices to self-regulate its broadcast standards. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs took a dim view of this proposal due to the NCRA’s adoption of aBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution vilifying Israel at their 2011 AGM. [...] By Spencer Fernando When speaking to predominantly Jewish audiences, Kasim Hafeez often begins by saying the following words: “When I was in university, I would have gladly killed every one of you.” By his own admission Kasim Hafeez was three months away from going to a Jihadist training camp. He easily could have ended up [...] 140-year-old model on display near Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate, after spending 138 in Basel, Switzerland. In one of the rounds of talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the idea came up of dividing the Temple Mount vertically: The Palestinians would get everything aboveground and Israel everything below.Archaeologist and Jerusalem scholar Shimon Gibson says the next time [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2012 Statement Condemning Israeli Boycott at the University of Regina Toronto, ON – On February 11th, the University of Regina’s Student Union passed a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academics and businesses. In response, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, issued the following [...] by David M. Weinberg The Times of Israel, February 13, 2012 One of the questions we Zionists often ask ourselves is this: Why don’t other minority nationalities around the world who, like us, are struggling for their independent national expression identify more strongly with Israel? Does it always have to be that they tend towards [...] Richard Marceau discusses his book “Juif. Une histoire québécoise” | “A Quebec Jew” on Quebec’s V-Network. February 10, 2012. Video in French
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