Team Alberta competes at JCC Maccabi Games
By Jenna Soroka (AJNews) – This year, after a 2-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the JCC Maccabi Games was hosted by the Lawrence Family JCC…
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Empower Women to Break the Cycle of Violence in Canada and Israel: Matching Campaign starts Aug 23
by Rebecca Bowslaugh and Simon Williams (AJNews) – Due to the COVID-19 government shutdowns and mandatory quarantines, domestic violence increased significantly across the globe over…
Canadian Jews were most-targeted religious minority for police-reported hate crimes last year
(Ottawa) – Statistics Canada has released police-reported hate crime data for 2021 revealing, once again, that hate crimes targeting the Black and Jewish populations remained the…
B.C. agrees to rename mountain named after Nazi collaborator
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – A mountain on the B.C.-Alberta border named after the leader of France’s Vichy Nazi collaborationist regime has now been renamed…
Limmud FSU Canada is back in force as hundreds gather at Niagara Falls
by Larry Luxner NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Jews from the former Soviet Union who now live in Canada — home to the world’s third-largest Diaspora…