Human rights advocate and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler was part of Nelson Mandela’s international legal team during his 27 years in prison, having been asked to join by one of Mandela’s lawyers in South Africa.
But Cotler also got to meet...
TORONTO — Jewish groups are urging Canadians to buy goods from companies being targeted in a holiday boycott campaign endorsed by the United Church of Canada against Israeli firms that make products in the West Bank.
“[The goal is]...
TORONTO — For years, Joe Mandel turned down the opportunity to join the March of the Living on its annual trip to Nazi death camps.
Mandel was a Holocaust survivor who was liberated by American troops on May 4, 1945, in the Gunskirchen...
MONTREAL — West-end mayors vowed at a Dec. 2 rally in mostly Jewish Cote St. Luc (CSL) that their municipalities would invoke civil disobedience by defying Bill 60 – the Quebec charter of values – and fight it in court if it became...
TORONTO — (Video) Just before serenading 4,000 guests at Sunday night’s annual Jewish National Fund (JNF) Negev Dinner with a selection of rock’n’roll hits, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced he will visit Israel next...
TORONTO — Days before Prime Minister Stephen Harper was feted by the Jewish National Fund at its annual Negev Dinner, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau appeared before a friendly audience in a Toronto synagogue to present his vision as a...
