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Posted on: February 22, 2012
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, [...]
Posted on: February 20, 2012
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 [...]
Posted on: February 15, 2012
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 [...]
Posted on: February 15, 2012
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 [...]
Posted on: February 13, 2012
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 [...]
Posted on: February 13, 2012
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 [...]
Posted on: February 10, 2012
Rabbi Gunther Plaut, shown in his library in 2008, died Wednesday at age 99. Plaut was a world-renowned religious scholar and a leading figure in Reform Judaism. Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut was once described as the unspoken leader of Canada’s Jewish community. He was considered a titan of human rights and a leader in the [...]
Posted on: February 9, 2012
A Montreal auction house is selling what it claims are fossilized human remains from Nazi death camps. Listen to the CBC report on CBC radio 1 here. Watch a CBC news report here. Read more on the story from canada.com, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Sun and the Calgary Herald UPDATE: The [...]
Posted on: February 9, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2012 Toronto, ON – In response to news that Rabbi Gunther Plaut passed away yesterday evening, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, issued the following statement: “We were saddened to hear of the passing of Rabbi Gunther Plaut, who served as a forceful advocate on [...]
Posted on: February 8, 2012
Paul Lungen :The Canadian Jewish News TORONTO — There’s no need to man the ramparts, a new wave of antisemitism in not about to descend on Canadian society. Nevertheless, reports from Germany naming 74 individuals linked to neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites should alert Canadians to the fact that the “classical” antisemitic attitudes have not [...]
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