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2024 Yom HaShoah commemoration at the National Holocaust Monument

On Monday, May 6, Ottawa’s Jewish community, leaders from other faith communities, and elected officials came together in person at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa for a community-wide Yom...Read More

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May 06, 2024

Humanitarian aid shipments at risk as talks between Israel, Hamas collapse (The Globe and Mail)

The trucks slowly lumbered forward, passing single file through a gap in the seven-metre-high concrete barrier that separates Israel from the northern Gaza Strip. Twenty-eight flatbed trucks were allowed to enter on Sunday morning, each laden with giant sacks of Turkish flour.

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May 05, 2024

This Week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy, May 5, 2024

This week, we reached out to leadership at major Canadian post-secondary institutions to provide guidance on building formal plans for security and enforcing policies, called on Ontarians to tell MPPs...Read More

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May 05, 2024

Pro-Palestinian encampment coming to the University of Manitoba next week (CTV News Winnipeg)

The three-day event will be hosted by U of M students advocating for justice in Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Organizers are asking participants to stand together “in solidarity with land defenders globally.”

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May 04, 2024

Pro-Palestinian encampment planned for U of Manitoba campus (CBC News Manitoba)

Organizers want university to divest from groups with ties to Israel

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May 03, 2024

Terry Glavin: Finally, a terrorist sympathizer is arrested (National Post)

After everything that has happened since October 7, it might not have been the worst way to begin Jewish Heritage Month in Canada. Following on 207 days of bloodcurdling antisemitic incitements, attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses, and lurid public celebrations of the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, an arrest has been made.

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May 03, 2024

Proposal to teach Palestinian history in schools faces backlash (CBC)

Nakba noticeably absent from teaching, proponents say; Jewish group says inclusion would 'delegitimize Israel'

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May 02, 2024

Proposal to teach Palestinian history in schools faces backlash (CBC News British Columbia)

Nakba noticeably absent from teaching, proponents say; Jewish group says inclusion would 'delegitimize Israel'

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May 02, 2024

Quebec court won't order removal of McGill anti-Israel protest encampment (National Post)

Montreal police have yet to act, but one Jewish advocacy organization says that 'the situation continues to escalate'

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May 01, 2024