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The Palestinian professor who touched off a maelstrom of controversy by taking a group of students to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland is now at odds with his former employer after the school accepted his resignation. Dr. Mohammed…
Left to right are Shoshana Burton, Fred Miller and Jessie Claudio. (photo by Shula Klinger) School curriculum can seem abstract, separate from the “real” world for which it is intended to prepare our children. What can a teacher do to…
Rabbi Philip Bregman (photo from students.ubc.ca) Rabbi Philip Bregman is a longstanding leader in the Jewish community. He served as senior rabbi at Temple Sholom for 33 years and is still connected with the congregation as rabbi emeritus. He is…
Reuven Rivlin votes in the presidential election in the Knesset. (photo by Ashernet) On June 10, Israel’s 120-seat parliament chose longtime Likud member Reuven Rivlin as the country’s next president. He will succeed Shimon Peres, who retires next month at…
An American neo-Nazi group cannot inherit the estate of a New Brunswick man, a court in that province ruled June 5. In a 43-page decision, Justice William Grant of the Court of Queen’s Bench invalidated the will of the late…
Canada’s Israeli embassy and the Jewish Federation of Ottawa say that an art exhibit on display at Ottawa City Hall’s Karsh-Masson Gallery glorifies Palestinian terrorism and have urged the city to review its policy on how exhibits are approved. The…
A Lufthansa Airbus A320 takes off at Berlin Tegel Airport. From legacy carriers such as Lufthansa to low-cost carriers such as Great Britain’s easyJet, new flights to and from Israel are popping up all over the grid following the EU-Israel…
The Frank family on the Merwedeplein, May 1941. (photo from AFF BASEL, CH / AFS AMSTERDAM, NL) Since her diary was first published in 1947, Anne Frank’s story has reached many millions of readers. Her precocious wisdom, her courage and…
Mahapach-Taghir’s national coordinator Itamar Hamiel and Palestinian co-director Fidaa Nara Abu-Dbai at the organization’s last residents conference in Tel Aviv. (photo from Itamar Hamiel) On June 10, Itamar Hamiel of Mahapach-Taghir will be in Vancouver to speak about his organization and…
If there’s one act of tikkun olam to which David Katz is dedicated, it’s an effort to clean up the oceans and waterways of the world by recycling and reprocessing plastic waste. The 45-year-old Port Moody, B.C.-based founder of the…
