Understanding the Syria moment at the Trump-Putin news conference
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — The media, Congress, the international community — just about everybody is reeling after the joint news conference on Monday July…
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B’nai Brith Canada: Hate Crimes Trial underway for German-Canadian siblings
(July 4, 2018) – The trial of two German-Canadian siblings for inciting hatred against Jews got under way in Munich on Monday July 2, 2018, a week after one of…
Edmonton’s Aviv Dancers perform at international dance festival
By Regan Treewater-Lipes (EJNews) – Edmonton choreographer Sari Uretsky Leung and her dynamic group of Aviv Dancers recently took to the international stage on an…
Netanyahu is welcoming authoritarians to Israel. Does that make his country safer?
By Charles Dunst (JTA) — It has become a staple of his stump speeches to audiences in Israel and abroad: Far from being isolated politically,…
FSWC Notes Changes to Poland’s Misguided Holocaust Law
TORONTO, ON — June 27, 2018 — Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) notes today’s move by Polish legislators today to amend aspects of the…