Honouring Victims of Genocide: Statement from Premier Notley
(December 9, 2018) – Premier Rachel Notley issued the following statement on the United Nations’ International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of…
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On Nov. 30, Canadian MPs paid tribute to Jewish refugees in the House of Commons
OTTAWA – MPs David Sweet (Flamborough—Glanbrook, Conservatives) and Marco Mendicino (Mount Royal, Liberals) both made statements in the House of Commons Friday to commemorate November…
Canadian businessman kicks in $5 million to land an Israeli spacecraft on the moon
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Canadian billionaire and businessman has joined the project to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon and contributed $5 million…
American-Israeli behind JCC bomb threats sentenced to 10 years in prison
(JTA) — A 20-year-old American-Israeli man convicted of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers and Jewish schools in the United States and…
New documentary series explores centuries of Russian Jewish life
By Ben Harris In 1894, a Jewish military officer in France, Alfred Dreyfus, was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason for allegedly passing state secrets…