Category National

McGill calls for participants

photo - people on a beach tanning and swimming

Sun tans are actually a response to DNA damage. (photo from pexels.com) Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. To better understand sun safety behaviour and attitudes in the Jewish community, a research group from McGill is conducting a survey. …

Visiting the Nova Exhibition

photo - The Nova Exhibition commemorates the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. The exhibit is in Toronto until June 8

The Nova Exhibition commemorates the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. The exhibit is in Toronto until June 8. (photo by Lorraine Katzin) My friend Karen Shalansky and I, from Congregation Har El, went on a…

Amid the rescuers, resisters

A nationwide Upstanders Canada keynote lecture to mark Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) last month reminded the Zoom audience that the belief that Jews simply cowered, while the atrocities around them were being committed during the Second World War, is…

Jewish MPs headed to Parliament

photo - Tamara Kronis was elected in the Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith

Tamara Kronis was elected in the Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith. (photo from rossmcbride.com) Conservative candidate Tamara Kronis was elected in the Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, making her one of a small number of Jewish members of the new…

Key Passover imports exempt

photo - Tal Kinstlich and Stephanie Schneider, the owners of Vancouver’s Kosher Food Warehouse

Tal Kinstlich and Stephanie Schneider, the owners of Vancouver’s Kosher Food Warehouse. (photo from Kosher Food Warehouse) Canada is exempting key imported Passover foods from the current diplomatic trade war with the United States. The ministry of finance sent The…

Na’amat – 100 years of service

photo - From 1925 to today, Na’amat volunteers across Canada and the United States continue to empower women and children in Israel and abroad

From 1925 to today, Na’amat volunteers across Canada and the United States continue to empower women and children in Israel and abroad. (photo from Na’amat Canada) At a time when charities are fighting to survive, an organization that’s been helping…

Flights to Israel resume

photo - Air Canada Boeing 778 Lifting off Runway 23, Toronto-Pearson YYZ

With Air Canada’s announcement of the resumption of flights from Toronto and Montreal to Tel Aviv, it will be much faster for Canadians to fly to Israel. But will it be cheaper? The Canadian national carrier is set to resume…

Surveying Canadian Jews

“Canada’s Jewish community is divided over Israeli and domestic Canadian politics, even though rising antisemitism and war seem to have increased the emotional attachment of Canada’s Jews to Israel,” writes sociologist Robert Brym in the executive summary of Arguments for…

Fighting antisemitism

photo - In Toronto, Yoseph Haddad, left, with Daniel Koren, founder and executive director of Allied Voices for Israel, which sponsored Haddad’s Canadian tour

In Toronto, Yoseph Haddad, left, with Daniel Koren, founder and executive director of Allied Voices for Israel, which sponsored Haddad’s Canadian tour. (photo by Dave Gordon) In recent years, Arab-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad has become known for his efforts to…

Changes at CIJA

Shimon Koffler Fogel is moving on from his role as president and chief executive officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). Fogel’s career as a Jewish professional began in the 1980s with the Canadian Jewish Congress and…