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Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf ::The Canadian Jewish News TORONTO — A conversation with a reporter is unlike any other discussion. That’s one of Jordan Kerbel’s first lessons in the media training seminars he gives as part of his duties with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). For the past five years, Kerbel, CIJA’s deputy director [...]
Winnipeg police are currently investigating an incident at a Winnipeg high school involving a student with Nazi links who reportedly used a lighter to burn the hair of a female Jewish student. The disturbing incident, which took place at Oak Park High School, in the quiet community of Charleswood, apparently also saw the 15-year-old boy [...]
Demystifying Kosher Winemaking Hamilton Jewish Federation was asked to be a co-sponsor of a seminar at Brock University, which will discuss what is entailed to make a wine kosher, and through wine tastings, determine if there is any difference between a kosher and non-kosher wine. Highly regarded kosher wines are made in Israel, and also [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 2011 Upon learning of an assault against a Jewish student at Oak Park High School in Winnipeg Shelley Faintuch, Associate Director, Local Partner Services for The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs released the following statement: “This is a shocking act of violence that must not be tolerated. The allegation [...]
Toronto, ON – The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was recently made aware of a lecture given by Professor Cameron Johnston yesterday at York University, which reportedly included an anti-Semitic remark.
Earlier this month, Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal of McGill University, published a sharp commentary in the McGill Daily in response its editorial suggesting that McGill should cut its ties to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Ms. Munroe-Blum's rejection of the academic boycott campaign was as absolute as it was scathing: "The suggestion that McGill cease to engage [...]
Emmanuel Navon, an International Relations Lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, blogs in the Jerusalem Post about his not-so-friendly welcome in Montreal: Last week, Montréal University (L’Université du Québec à Montréal, or UQÀM) made me feel good: After I delivered my lecture there, I was surrounded by four bodyguards that rushed me through a backdoor and then [...]
Around 270 students at Edinburgh University voted in favour of a motion which described Israel as an apartheid state and called for a boycott of goods. However, the Jewish Chronicle reports that the Edinburgh University Students' Association has confirmed a proposed boycott of Israeli products will not be enforced. Here is a strong argument against [...]
Here is a recent National Post column by Rex Murphy: I’ve been reading Donald Rumsfeld’s memoirs, Known and Unknown, and a real treat it is. It isn’t often we get to view the distilled reflections of a man of high intelligence, deep patriotism and full maturity. The book reveals that the former U.S. defense secretary [...]
Columnist Khaled Abu Toameh notes in his latest column how a Palestinian boy in Lebanon was denied treatment for lack of $1,500 to pay his bill and died as a result. The contrast with Palestinians’ treatment in Israel is striking: Last year alone, some 180,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip entered Israel [...] 
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