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Canada : des groupes juifs accusent le gouvernement de freiner la shehita (The Times of Israel)

Des agences de certification casher de premier plan affirment que les autorités nuisent gravement à la vente et à la distribution de viande de bœuf casher produite localement

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March 17, 2024

This week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy | March 17, 2024

This week, we’re still working hard to ensure the NDP motion that would challenge Canada’s longstanding support for Israel gets defeated, we celebrated our VP’s well received rationale for why...Read More

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March 17, 2024

Extension request for Injunction against demonstrations targeting Jewish community institutions granted

Joint Statement from Federation CJA and CIJA Community centres, schools, and houses of worship need to be protected from those that seek to leverage a foreign conflict to target the...Read More

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March 15, 2024

Quebec extends the injunction designed to protect Jewish institutions until early April—with Montreal security top of mind following a protest at Concordia (CJN)

Protests directly in front of a specific set of Jewish buildings in Montreal remain off-limits, by law, after a Quebec Superior Court judge extended an injunction on March 15.

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March 15, 2024

Canadian Jewish agencies sue over government rules they say have curbed kosher meat production (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Two of the most prominent kosher certification agencies in Canada are suing the national government, claiming that recent regulations around animal slaughter are putting the country’s kosher industry at risk.

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March 15, 2024

Kosher agencies make no bones about ‘flawed’ Canadian slaughter laws (Jewish News Syndicate)

“When the Jewish community is being treated differently than other communities in Canada because of our religious beliefs, that is discrimination,” said Richard Rabkin, managing director of the Kashruth Council of Canada.

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March 15, 2024

Compassion and solidarity (Winnipeg Free Press)

Volunteers off to Israel to work in agriculture sector after onset of war

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March 15, 2024

Fonds publics canadiens versés au Hamas : une organisation juive poursuit Ottawa (Québec Nouvelles)

Le Centre pour les affaires israéliennes et juives s’apprête à poursuivre le gouvernement fédéral en justice pour sa décision de rétablir le financement d’une agence d’aide des Nations Unies malgré les informations selon lesquelles le personnel de l’agence aurait été impliqué dans les attaques du 7 octobre contre Israël.

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March 14, 2024

Ottawa pauses non-lethal military export permits for Israel (Toronto Star)

Since Jan. 8, applications for permits to allow Canadian companies to ship tens of millions of dollars worth of non-lethal goods and technology have been put on hold.

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March 14, 2024