Roma, the Mexico City setting of Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar frontrunner, used to be a Jewish neighborhood
by Alan Grabinsky MEXICO CITY (JTA) — Alfonso Cuaron’s film “Roma” has already won two Golden Globes, and many think it will be the first…
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Malaysia Stripped Of Hosting World Para Swimming Championships
(January 27, 2019) – Thanks to a mounting worldwide campaign, including a petition from B’nai Brith Canada that garnered over 1,500 signatures, the International Paralympic…
Premier Rachel Notley commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Premier Rachel Notley issued the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Seventy-four years ago, Allied forces liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and revealed it…
Right-wing killings eclipsed all other extremist-related murders in 2018. The numbers don’t lie.
by Jonathan A. Greenblatt NEW YORK (JTA) — Every year, extremism takes a deadly toll around the world. No region is immune — not the…
NFB observes the International Day of Commemorating Victims of the Holocaust
(January 25, 2019) – Starting January 25, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be streaming Éléonore Goldberg’s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions/NFB) free of charge across…