MPP Tony Ruprecht addresses a crowd of celebrants at Queen's Park as the Israeli flag was raised in honour of Yom Ha’atzmaut. At right is Israel’s consul general for Toronto and Western Canada, Amir Gissin.
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  The Canadian Council on Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) has withdrawn its application for accreditation to the upcoming Durban Review Conference, also known as Durban II.
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 TORONTO —Marc Ginsburg, 33, has wanted to become a doctor since he was 10 years old.
After getting a master’s degree as a nurse practitioner from the University of Toronto and completing two out of four years of medical school abroad, Ginsburg was shocked to find himself at the other end of the stethoscope.
From left, Marc Ginsburg, with his son Yosi, wife Gillian and daughter Miriam.
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 TORONTO — Ezra Moses is still concerned about the future of the Eastern Canadian Region of United Synagogue Youth (ECRUSY), but the 18-year-old Montrealer is not as worried as he was last fall, when he heard that some shuls with USY chapters might leave the umbrella body of Conservative Judaism.
Ezra Moses and Dov Smiley
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 OTTAWA — In a message delivered by Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier, LEFT, the Canadian government used the occasion of the fifth annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on Parliament Hill to reaffirm its support for the State of Israel.
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This special feature series will profile people who were in Israel in 1948, at the birth of the Jewish state.
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 TORONTO — In keeping with the solemnity of the occasion, the audience at last Wednesday’s Yom Hashoah community commemoration at Earl Bales Park was asked not to applaud during the 90-minute service.
VIDEO: Children from the Netivot HaTorah choir at last week’s Yom Hashoah commemoration.
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 David Zilberman is beyond thrilled. On Aug. 21, the 25-year-old Montrealer will be in Beijing, competing in his first match there and hoping to be on his way to a medal as a freestyle wrestler at the Olympic Games.
Wrestler David Zilberman, right, is named victor of a match against Khetag Pliev of Toronto at the 2008 Canadian Olympic Team Trials last December in Toronto.
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MONTREAL — B’nai Brith Canada says that not only did the Bouchard-Taylor commission hearings serve as a platform for bigots, but the reasonable accommodation debate evidently encouraged anti-Semitic acts in the province.
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 TORONTO — The Ontario Liberal government has made a $2-million capital investment in Reena, a non-profit Jewish support agency for people with special needs in York Region.
Madeleine Meilleur received a bouquet of flowers from grateful Reena client, Tamara Benjamin. [Barry Shainbaum photo]
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 TORONTO — It’s almost trite to call anyone who is even remotely interesting a renaissance man (or woman).
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MONTREAL — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) held a protest outside the Coca- Cola Company’s recent annual shareholders’ meeting in Wilmington, Del., calling on the multi-billion dollar company to compensate the Bigio family of Montreal, Egyptian Jewish refugees whose land and factories were expropriated by the Egyptian government during an anti-Semitic campaign in the 1960s.
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 TORONTO — A Toronto rabbi has turned ingenious halachic loopholes into a way to make life more convenient for Sabbath-observant Jews.
Moshe Orzech and Rabbi Shmuel Veffer have invented a line of “kosher” products.
With items ranging from lamps and oral hygiene aids to magnetic message
centres, Rabbi Shmuel Veffer, Rebbetzin Chana Veffer and Moshe Orzech
have designed a line of products that help make the observant Jewish
lifestyle easier to keep.
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Representatives of First Nations and Jewish organizations who met in Ottawa last week are touting the goodwill and co-operative spirit of the meeting and downplaying any lingering after effects of the David Ahenakew affair.
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