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Bill C-9: Joint Statement by Five Jewish Organizations

Toronto, Canada – December 8, 2025 – Today, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, B’nai Brith Canada, Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, and Friends of...

Dec 08, 2025

Combating Antisemitism

Davis Cup

Tennis Canada just announced that the Davis Cup matches in Halifax will be played without spectators in the stadium because of "escalating safety concerns." Extremists are threatening our Canadian way of...

Sep 10, 2025

Protecting Jewish Life

Update on appeal for interlocutory injunction to protect production of Canada’s kosher meat

CFIA’s unjustified and untenable imposition of conditions on shechita forces the Jewish community to seek court relief Ottawa, ON – July 12, 2024 – This week, the Centre for Israel...

Jul 12, 2024

Canada-Israel Friendship

Canada Needs to Change Course

Germany gets it. We need you to help PM Carney understand. Germany has made it clear: advancing recognition of Palestinian statehood right now would undermine efforts toward peace. After meeting...

Aug 27, 2025

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What’s at Stake—Toronto’s Proposed Bylaw on Safe Access Zones

After 19 months of relentless, targeted harassment outside synagogues, Jewish schools, and community institutions, our collective voice is making a difference. The City of Toronto—Canada’s largest and most influential municipality—has...

May 21, 2025

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Interfaith group calls for protection of places of worship (Catholic Register)

A deepening polarization in Canadian society and increased vandalism against houses of worship has led to an interfaith call for the federal government to provide more robust protection of religious institutions.

CIJA

June 24, 2024

Iran’s Shia-only elections expose age-old intolerance (The Hill)

As Iran prepares for the charade of presidential elections later this month, old and new regime apparatchiks have announced their candidacies. They include former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Ali Reza Afshar and Zohreh Elahian, the first woman to run for president of Iran, as well as more than 70 others. Earlier this month, a short list of six candidates was approved by authorities to run.

CIJA

June 24, 2024

Jewish advocates question minister’s vetting of new head of human rights commission (The Globe and Mail)

Jewish advocates have raised concerns with the Justice Minister about whether he fully vetted the new head of Canada’s human rights commission after it emerged that Birju Dattani posted links on social media to articles comparing Israelis to Nazis, and Palestinians to Jews incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Susan Marcus

June 24, 2024

Interfaith alliance calls on Canada to protect places of worship from vandalism (Catholic Register)

CIJA

June 24, 2024

This Week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy, June 23, 2024

This week, the IRGC was (finally) banned, we asked you to help send a message to the Ontario government to get involved in the TDSB decision regarding anti-Palestinian racism (APR),...Read More

CIJA

June 23, 2024

An interview with Gustavo Zentner (Canadian Mennonite)

Gustavo Zentner will never forget visiting areas attacked by Hamas. “We walked into the homes where you can still smell the smell of burned flesh,” he recalled. “That smell will always accompany me.”

CIJA

June 21, 2024

Fewer Canadians believe antisemitism, Islamophobia a problem: poll (Winnipeg Free Press)

A decreasing number of Canadians believes antisemitism and Islamophobia are serious problems in this country, a new survey says.

CIJA

June 21, 2024

Sit this one out—or march loud and proud? Queer Jews face a hard choice in deciding whether to join Pride Toronto festivities in 2024 (The Canadian Jewish News)

Leaders of the Jewish organizations that march as a group in Toronto’s annual Pride parade have had a hard time deciding whether to join this year’s joyous blowout celebration of the LGBTQ+ community.

CIJA

June 21, 2024

United Against Hate Canada is a new nonprofit founded by Marvin Rotrand, a former Montreal city councillor who was recently a national director at B’nai Brith (The Canadian Jewish News)

Marvin Rotrand, a former Montreal city councillor and former national director at B’nai Brith Canada, announced the incorporation of a new nonprofit dedicated to combating hate earlier this week.

CIJA

June 20, 2024

Holocaust education is becoming mandatory in British Columbia schools—but the teachers’ union is currently denying funds to experts in the field (The Canadian Jewish News)

The reasons behind the decision two weeks ago by a council within the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), the union representing teachers in the province, to deny funding to a specialist association focused on Holocaust education remain unclear and continue to upset local Jewish groups.

CIJA

June 20, 2024

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Davis Cup

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Canada Needs to Change Course

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What’s at Stake—Toronto’s Proposed Bylaw on Safe Access Zones

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