 TORONTO — After months of promoting the historic Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, the organizers eagerly welcomed people from all backgrounds to explore the scrolls and other artifacts that offer Jews, Christians and Muslims a link to their past.
Some of the fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls that are part of the exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. [Photo courtesy of the ROM and the Israel Antiquities Authority] (video available)
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 TEL AVIV — Canadian Space Agency president Steve MacLean was in Israel last week for the third time since the tragic death of his Israeli colleague and close friend Ilan Ramon aboard the space shuttle Columbia, which exploded during its re-entry to Earth on March 1, 2003.
Steve MacLean
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 TORONTO — Last week’s three-day York University-sponsored conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was met with three days of protests from concerned members of the Jewish community who feared the event would promote an anti-Israel agenda.
Students gathered at York University’s Glendon campus on Monday to protest the York-sponsored conference called Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace. [Sheri Shefa photo]
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 With 150 productions of every type, The Fringe, Toronto’s largest theatre festival, has plenty of variety. (with video)
Ariel Platt brings her one-woman show to The Fringe
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 TORONTO — Lori Starr, executive director of Toronto’s Koffler Centre of the Arts, wants to make one thing clear.
Lori Starr
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 TORONTO — Recent converts whose entry into the Jewish fold was officiated by the Toronto Orthodox rabbinate should have no concerns that their status as Jews could ever be challenged by an Israeli rabbinic court, stated the outgoing head of Toronto’s Vaad Harabonim.
Rabbi Reuven Tradburks
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 World-renowned gynecological oncologist Dr. Allan Covens is one of just a few surgeons who can perform a procedure to remove cervical cancer while preserving fertility.
Dr. Allan Covens
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WINNIPEG — Former federal Liberal candidate Lesley Hughes is suing Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai Brith Canada, charging they ruined her political career by saying that she’s anti-Semitic.
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TORONTO — Jewish camps were being vigilant last week about screening for the H1N1 virus, but none reported any suspicious cases of flu among campers or staff.
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TORONTO — When Zev, 46, had no money to feed his five children, United Chesed stepped in to help.
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MONTREAL — Montreal businessman Hershey Friedman is expected to buy the bankrupt Iowa-based kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors Inc., according to information filed in a U.S. court last week.
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MONTREAL — A Quebec judge is not expected to decide until September whether a lawsuit by a Palestinian West Bank village against two Montreal-based companies can be heard here.
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