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…
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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…
A collection of Yiddish songs was thought lost forever. Now they’ve been nominated for a Grammy.
by Penny Schwartz BOSTON (JTA) — In the despair of the Soviet Union’s fierce World War II battles against the Nazis, a 42-year-old Jewish man from…