Deborah Lyons is Canada’s new special envoy on combatting antisemitism
by John Longhurst, Canadian Jewish News (CJN) – Deborah Lyons has been named the new Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism,…
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Rabbah Gila Caine: A kavanah for working towards a new Jewish left
by Rabbah Gila Caine (AJNews) – Ever since Hamas’s terror attack on Oct. 7, many conversations I’ve had with people here in Edmonton, but also…
B.C. announces mandatory Holocaust Education in K-12 curriculum will begin in 2025
(Vancouver) – Flanked by members of British Columbia’s Jewish community, including Holocaust Survivors and their descendants, and representatives of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC),…
A message from Adam Silver and Hannah Silver: Calgary at the fight antisemitism conference in Ottawa
by Adam Silver and Hannah Silver (Calgary) – Eighteen Calgarians joined almost 1,000 others in Ottawa for Antisemitism: Face IT, Fight IT! The conference, organized and…
Telling the precious story of Herbert Zwergfeld and the Kindertransport that saved his life
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – It is hard to imagine the rollercoaster of emotions when, on March 15, 1939, Marie Zwergfeld put her 11-year-old son…