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| Saturday 17th of May 2008 |
12 Iyyar 5768
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In the News
U.S. President George Bush in Israel. [Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahahronot/Israel Sun photo]
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 U.S. President George W. Bush, Mrs. Laura Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his wife Aliza Olmert tour Masada. [Haim Hornshtein/Yedioth Ahahronot/Israel Sun photo]
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  OTTAWA — Canada’s support for Israel is strong and unequivocal, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Bernier, LEFT, at a celebration of Israel’s 60th birthday.
Bernier was speaking at a reception hosted by Israeli Ambassador
Alan Baker, RIGHT, for members of the diplomatic corps and representatives of
Jewish community organizations.
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 A decision by a haredi rabbinic appeal court in Israel has called into question the legitimacy of thousands of conversions by a respected Israeli halachic authority and prompted a heated and strongly worded rebuke from an Orthodox rabbis’ group.
At the same time, two rabbis associated with the Toronto Vaad Harabonim
(Orthodox rabbinical council) say the Israeli decision will likely have
no impact on conversions approved by the council’s beit din (rabbinical
court).
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 TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told 7,000 people celebrating Israel’s 60th birthday that the Jewish State has Canada’s “unshakable support” because those who threaten Israel also threaten Canada.
“Unfortunately, Israel at 60 remains a country under threat, threatened
by groups and regimes who deny, to this very day, its right to exist.
And why? Make no mistake. Look beyond the thinly veiled
rationalizations – because they hate Israel, just as much as they hate
the Jewish people. Our government believes that those who threaten
Israel also threaten Canada,” Harper said May 8 at the Israel @ 60
event at the Ricoh Coliseum, eliciting enthusiastic applause and a
standing ovation.
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 MONTREAL — Thousands gathered in downtown Montreal for a joyous mid-day celebration of the State of Israel’s 60th anniversary last Thursday.
Liberal leader Stéphane Dion walks in parade along René Lévesque Boulevard, with, from left, St. Laurent municipal councillor Maurice Cohen, Israeli Consul General Yoram Elron and Lawrence Bergman, Liberal Member of the National Assembly for D'Arcy McGee. [Mickey Gutstein photo]
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 Would-be Spielbergs, Kubricks and Coens take note: your directorial skills are being requested to help promote and defend Israel on this, its 60th anniversary.
Israel Project president Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
The Israel Project – a Washington-based, non-profit think-tank
dedicated to advocating for the Jewish state – is running a contest
that will reward novice directors, writers and artists with $20,000 in
prize money for those who display “a passion for showing the real
Israel.”
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 TORONTO — Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb delivered a pointed message about Jewish unity to a sanctuary full of people gathered for Mizrachi Canada’s annual Yom Hazikaron/Yom Ha’atzmaut program last week at Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation in Thornhill.
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 TORONTO — Islamic jihadists have targeted Israel as the key front-line state in the war of terror they are waging against the West, according to the deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, LEFT,.
Speaking at Holy Blossom Temple last week, she said Muslim radicals regard Israel as the first western nation to be eliminated in their campaign to establish “global domination.”
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 TORONTO — An estimated 1,000 people gathered at Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue on May 6, the eve of Yom Hazikaron, for the Israeli consulate’s annual Memorial Day ceremony for Israel’s fallen soldiers.
From left, Yitzhak Argaman, Reuven Zemer and Israel David perform the Hebrew song We Left Quietly. [Frances Kraft video]
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MONTREAL — On the eve of Israel’s milestone 60th birthday last week, hundreds from the community honoured the memory of the 23,000 Israeli men, women and children who were “plucked from life by war and terror.”
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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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 She has graced the screen in the cult classic movie Napoleon Dynamite. Received a Gemini award for her role in the immensely popular supernatural TV drama The Collector. Is venturing into a new, real-life role as a producer. And is a spokesperson for the venerable Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Yet in spite of a host of successes that would give most of us swelled
egos, Ellen Dubin, LEFT, appreciates it all and definitely remembers who
helped her along the way.
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MONTREAL — A taxi driver is seeking $5,000 from the city of Montreal because he opposes a bylaw that prohibits him from displaying personal mementos in his car.
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 On Nov. 30, 1947, in response to a historic United Nations resolution passed the day before calling for the partition of Palestine into two sovereign states, one Jewish and the other Arab, Palestinian Arabs launched a series of violent attacks on Jews throughout the country.
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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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