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Back to SearchA new faculty network has formed to help protect Jewish professors from campus antisemitism
The group is calling itself the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, or NECA, and its founders are two professors from Ottawa: Deidre Butler, direc…
3 years, 1 month ago
Meet the Canadian starring in Netflix’s new Jewish matchmaking reality show
Cindy Seni is one of the cast members looking to find true love on the popular new Netflix series Jewish Matchmaking, which debuted on May 3. The sho…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ontario’s Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says antisemitic rhetoric by an NDP MPP is ‘toxic to our democracy’
Michael Kerzner is the highest-ranking Jewish member of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government. Kerzner was appointed as solicitor general last June,…
3 years, 1 month ago
Newfoundland and Labrador is now the 7th province to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism: Does it matter?
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador will hold a news conference today, May 9, to officially announce its adoption of the International Holoca…
3 years, 2 months ago
How two Canadian Jewish politicians navigated King Charles’s coronation
When millions of people around the world tuned in to watch Saturday’s broadcast of the coronation ceremony of King Charles, one of them was Manitoba’…
3 years, 2 months ago
Wayne and Shuster’s kids are helping to bring their parents’ classic comedy skits to a new generation
Canadians of a certain age will remember listening to the comedy duo of Wayne and Shuster on the radio—and, later, watching them on television from t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rosalie Abella gets the big-screen treatment spotlighting a life dedicated to justice
A new documentary is giving viewers unprecedented access to the unconventional life of the Hon. Rosalie Abella, the first Jewish woman—and first refu…
3 years, 2 months ago
Could Israeli-born teen singer, Maya Gamzu, win "Canada’s Got Talent"?
She’s not even 15 years old, but this Israeli immigrant to Canada is blessed with a powerful singing voice that belies her years. Now Maya Gamzu is h…
3 years, 2 months ago
Antisemitic incidents seem disproportionately high in Canada. How is this possible?
When B’nai Brith released its annual antisemitism report on April 17, documenting 2,769 incidents of Jew hatred in Canada last year, we wondered why …
3 years, 2 months ago
86-year-old Hadassa Kingstone's epic life tells the story of the State of Israel
Hadassa Kingstone’s parents escaped Hitler’s Europe, snuck through the British blockade of Mandatory Palestine and settled in pre-State Haifa, where …
3 years, 2 months ago