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Last hostage home

photo - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at Ran Gvili’s funeral in Meitar on Jan. 28 — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at Ran Gvili’s funeral in Meitar on Jan. 28. (photo © Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

New bill targets hate crimes

photos - During the Israel-Hamas war, there were protesters holding antisemitic signs and hollering antisemitic slogans. Bill C-9 would amend the Criminal Code to strengthen existing hate-related offences — At rallies held across Canada after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and during the Israel-Hamas war, there were protesters holding antisemitic signs and hollering antisemitic slogans. Bill C-9 would amend the Criminal Code to strengthen existing hate-related offences. (photo from Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism)

Concerning actions

The federal government announced last week that they are eliminating the office of Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.

In between issues

ישראלים רבים ממשיכים לתמוך בטראמפ ועדיין אינם מבינים במי מדובר

נשיא ארה”ב דונלד טראמפ, מכהן בתפקידו כבר שנה מלאה וקשה לאמוד את מידת הנזק שהוא גורם כל יום. למרות זאת ישראלים רבים ממשיכים לתמוך בו ללא עוררין וכנראה שהם עדיין לא מבינים במי מדובר. תופעה זו מזכירה את התמיכה בראש הממשלה של ישראל בנימין נתניהו. כבר מזמן הוכח שהתמיכה במנהיגים פוליטיים מושחתים כמו טראמפ ונתניהו, נובעת ממניעים פסיכולוגיים ולא הגיוניים. זה מזכיר כמו אמונה בדת, או חברות בקאלט

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עשרים ואחת שנים בוונקובר

בחודש פברואר ימלאו עשרים ואחת שנים לחיי בוונקובר. במקביל, המרחק שלי מישראל רק הולך וגדל

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Previous issue’s cover stories

Supporting the Iranian people

A huge demonstration filled the blocks around the Vancouver Art Gallery last weekend, part of a weekly presence of Persian and other Vancouverites calling for regime change and democracy for Iran. (photo by Richard K. Lowy)

As the street protests in Iran grow – and the death toll caused by the regime’s police and military crackdown increases – so do solidarity rallies worldwide….

The power of photography

“Elaborate Pride Costume, Gay Pride,” Vancouver, 1996. (© Dina Goldstein)

One of the JCC Jewish Book Festival pre-festival events holds special meaning for the Jewish Independent. Photographer Dina Goldstein, whose artistry has focused on large-scale narrative tableaux the last many years, began her career with the JI’s predecessor, the Jewish Western Bulletin. She has compiled thousands of images from her work over the last three decades – as a photojournalist, editorial photographer, traveler and artist – for the recently published 400-page hard-cover The XXX Archive, which she will share with the community on Feb. 12, 7 p.m….

A good place to start

A massive 94% of Canadian Jews support the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. However, according to University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym, who conducted the survey of 600 respondents, only 51% of those call themselves “Zionists.”…

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