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CIJA exhibit focuses on Canadian Jews

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is presenting its photo exhibition, Jews – A Canadian Story in Pictures in the rotunda of Toronto City Hall. CIJA is the advocacy agent of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and all other Canadian Jewish Federations.…

Op-Ed: Beating back the assault on Israel’s legitimacy

Op-Ed: Beating back the assault on Israel’s legitimacy

By Jerry Silverman and Steve Gutow

March 11, 2014 1:55pm 

~~NEW YORK (JTA) — Leaders of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement say they are protesting Israel’s policies in the West Bank. They are doing far more than tha…

Israel will help fund Diaspora Jewish education: Liberman

Investing in Jewish education in the Diaspora is the best way to address the “demographic catastrophe” facing North American Jews, and Israel wants to help, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said last week. In a speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish…

Minister Jason Kenney Speaks at MOL Shabbaton

Minister Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism, spoke at this year’s March of the Living Canada chaperone training session in Kingston, Ontario on December 6th 2013.