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PURIM NEWS: European Jews move en masse to Canada

In the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, and facing both economic instability and resurgent anti-Semitism across the continent, Europe’s Jews have made it official: they’re moving to Canada. The choice has come as a...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhahu addresses the U.S. Congress on March 3. AMOS BEN GERSHOM/GPO PHOTO

Speech Aftermath: Did Bibi lose any friends?

Washington — In the end, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was about reminding Americans that the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy. He may have lost some friends in the process. Netanyahu spoke before the...

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress in Washington March 3. YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT

Deal with Iran paves way to bomb, Netanyahu says

In his address to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the proposed nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran will lead inexorably to a nuclear-armed Iran and war in the Middle East. “This deal has...

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A.B. Yehoshua

Q&A A.B. Yehoshua: ‘Un État binational serait...

Né à Jérusalem en 1936 d’un père dont la famille est établie en Eretz Israël depuis six générations et d’une mère originaire du Maroc, Avraham B. Yehoshua, que les Israé...

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A.B. Yehoshua

Q&A A.B. Yehoshua: Israel needs national unity gov...

The great Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua, was born in Jerusalem to a father whose family had lived in Israel for six generations and a mother of Moroccan origin. This brilliant novelist, whose work has been published throughout the world and...

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Emerson Swift Mahon

BACKSTORY Emerson Swift Mahon: Canada’s first black Jew

In 1912, a young black man left Grenada in a quest for learning. His voyage led him to Canada and conversion to Judaism. “May you be written in the book of life in the New Year,” says the greeting in Yiddish on the back of a photograph...

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	A proudly Canadian Haggadah designed for all Jews MONTREAL — A new Haggadah in Hebrew, English and French has been created by Canadians for Canadians and celebrates the Jewish experience in...read more...
	Montreal teen to play for Germany in European Maccabi Games MONTREAL — Almost 70 years after his great-grandparents fled Nazi Germany, 14-year-old Montrealer Jacob Fraenkel will return to that country...read more...
	PURIM NEWS: Rabbi admits to digging ‘tunnel’ near York U TORONTO — An elderly Toronto rabbi has admitted to digging the recently discovered tunnel near York University, saying he took it upon himself...read more...
	PURIM NEWS: Jewish mother says she’ll accept son’s new career path TORONTO — A Jewish mother of three adult children says she will probably be OK, at some point, with her youngest son’s decision to pursue...read more...
	PURIM NEWS: Jewish millennials show little interest in media domination Jewish community leaders are concerned that young professionals of the millennial generation are not as committed to maintaining their grip on the...read more...

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	Toronto photographer reconnects with his Slovak roots Photographer Yuri Dojc was at his father’s funeral in 1997 when he met a Slovakian woman who had survived Auschwitz. This woman led the now...read more...
	Songwriter Marc Jordan talks about growing up dyslexic Songwriter Marc Jordan, who has penned songs for Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Diana Ross, Cher and Josh Groban, had a childhood secret that was a source...read more...
	Female comics address stigma behind the "crimson wave"When Natalie Norman, 28, first started doing stand-up four years ago, another female comedian gave her what was meant to be well-intentioned advice:...read more...
	Leonard Nimoy played iconic character Spock on Star Trek NEW YORK — Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his role as Spock on Star Trek, died Feb. 27 morning at his home in Los Angeles. The cause...read more...
	Israeli film aims to show ‘human face of the IDF’Eden Adler is, in the most superficial sense, the picture of a soldier: handsome, strapping and eminently self-possessed. The 22-year-old Israeli was...read more...

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