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An Air Canada flight from Toronto to Tel-Aviv was forced to circle Ben Gurion after missiles were fired at the airport.

Air Canada forced to circle airport before landing...

Rocket fire from Gaza forced an Air Canada flight to circle Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport Friday briefly before landing safely. Hamas’ military arm confirmed via Twitter that it had fired three M75 missiles at the airport around 11:45 a....

Secretary of State John Kerry with Israeli President Shimon Peres. [ISRAEL SUN PHOTO]

Kerry proposes new ceasefire plan

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proposed Israel and Hamas cease hostilities for one week as part of a plan to end the current round of fighting in the Gaza Strip. The ceasefire would go into effect Sunday as the first of two stages, an anonymous...

Murdered law professor 'brought people together...

TORONTO — More than 300 friends and family gathered to pay their respects to Toronto native Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor who was gunned down in his upscale Tallahassee home. Tallahassee police say Markel was shot...

'Hamas is the story here,' consul general...

Media outlets in Canada and abroad have been focusing on the suffering and death in Gaza and not enough on Hamas, Israel’s consul general to Toronto and Western Canada said at a conference call briefing for Toronto community leaders...

Bus shelter hit with anti-Semitic graffiti

TORONTO — York Regional Police are investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered on a bus shelter in Thornhill early Wednesday morning. The bus shelter, located at Atkinson Avenue and Spring Gate Boulevard, near Bathurst Street...

Pro-Palestinian protesters attack a pro-Israel rallier. THOMAS MOORE PHOTOS

COMMENT: Anti-Israel and anti-semitic, not pro-...

This past Friday, there was a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside city hall in Calgary. Almost 1,000 protesters reportedly showed up to rally for the people of Gaza. But what was expected to be a peaceful protest eventually turned into mobs of...

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Air Canada resumes flights after FAA lifts Israel ban UPDATE: Air Canada is resuming its flights to Israel, the carrier told The CJN "We are resuming operations to Tel Aviv beginning with tonight...read more...

Calgary Jews hope next anti-Israel rally stays peaceful The Calgary Jewish Federation hopes that an anti-Israel protest scheduled for Friday in front of Calgary’s City Hall won’t lead to the...read more...

Creating a Holocaust conversation for the future Pinchas Gutter, a Toronto Holocaust survivor, sits at the front of the classroom answering students’ questions in an easy give-and-take...read more...

Campagne de Solidarité avec le peuple d’Israël La FÉDÉRATION CJA de Montréal a mis sur pied, en collaboration avec les Fédérations Juives d’Amérique...read more...

Thousands back Israel in Montreal MONTREAL — About 3,000 people enthusiastically answered the call of Montreal’s Federation CJA and the Centre for Israel and Jewish...read more...

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Debut novel takes an exaggerated look at summer camp life Debut novelist David Shaolian said his experience working at an overnight camp inspired him to write an “exaggerated” story of what could...read more...

Comedian makes your story funny Have you ever found yourself in an embarrassingly hilarious situation that you’re sure would have an audience in stitches, if only you could...read more...

Dreaming the impossible dream at Stratford There are many reasons to see the production of Man of La Mancha at Ontario’s Stratford Festival this year, not least of which are some that...read more...

Lindy Zucker on lesbian comedy and matzah ball soup “I enjoy doing comedy, but the world of standup is kind of gross to handle at times. It’s sort of filled with a lot of chauvinistic...read more...

Singer finds the blues in Israel The king of Israeli blues, Lazer Lloyd, silenced the chatter in a Toronto bar recently with a hilarious story about the time he took a powerful drug...read more...

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	Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird at #RallyforIsrael
	Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Operation Protective Edge
	Dancing the horah at Senior Prom
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