In the News
April 15, 2010 - Canadian Jewish News By: Naomi
Caruso
Surprises in the CJCCC archives
It sometimes happens that certain gifts given to archives end up lying in dark
corners unattended for years. The reasons vary – there is a shortage of
staff, there is more pressing work, the collection requires a language other
than the official English and French – but eventually it all gets done.
[read more]
January 15, 2010 - Ottawa Citizen By: Eric Vernon
Why we remember Raoul Wallenberg;
Canada's first honorary citizen saved thousands from the Nazis and showed
what a profound impact a single person of integrity can make in the world
On Jan. 17, 1945, Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Red Army in Budapest, Hungary and disappeared, his fate unknown, into the Soviet gulag. What he was doing in Budapest in the first place is a tale of
selfless heroism and extraordinary courage and underscores why in 1985 Canada bestowed upon Wallenberg its first honorary Canadian citizenship.
[read more]
November 9, 2009 - National Post By: Bernie
M. Farber
Joe Levitt: Soldier, hero, historian
Joseph Levitt, a Montrealer by birth, was a product of both Montreal's famous
Baron Byng High school, where many Quebec Jews (including Mordecai Richler)
cut their teeth, and Harbord Collegiate in Toronto, where his family moved in
the mid-1930s. He was a bright, intuitive young man who was offered a scholarship
by the University of Toronto when he enrolled in its social science program.
[read more]
November 4, 2009 - Toronto Star By: Mia Farrow
Cycles of violence and apathy;
Campaign of brutality in Darfur has lasted longer than the Holocaust itself
As Canadians mark Holocaust Education Week, it is a sobering thought to realize
that the genocide in Darfur has lasted longer than the Holocaust itself. And
it continues unabated. [read more]
October 28, 2009 - eMarrakech.info By: Adam Atlas
Le Maroc occupe une place particulière dans le coeur de chaque
juif
Montréal, Québec — Les juifs marocains demeurent attachés
à leur identité, leurs racines, leur culture et leurs traditions
marocaines, telles que transmises de génération en génération,
ont affirmé dimanche à Montréal les participants à une
rencontre autour du thème “Maroc du souvenir, Maroc de l’avenir”.
[read more]
October 22, 2009 - Canadian Jewish News By: Cynthia
Gasner
Negev Dinner honours Elizabeth, Tony Comper
Elizabeth and Tony Comper, honorees at the 2009 Jewish National Fund’s (JNF)
annual Negev Dinner in Toronto, are role models individually and as a couple.
[read more]
October 14, 2009 - Vancouver Sun By: Kevin Griffin
1936: An Olympics like no other;
Some Canadian athletes boycotted what they saw as attempt by the Nazis to raise their profile
More than anything, Sammy Luftspring wanted to compete in the 1936 Olympics
in Berlin. At the age of 17, he’d become Ontario’s amateur lightweight boxing
champion. By the time of the Olympics, Luftspring had lost only five of 105 matches. [read more]
October 1, 2009 - Canadian Jewish News
Kanee Named To Hall
WINNIPEG — Former Canadian Jewish Congress president Sol Kanee is this year’s
inductee to Winnipeg’s Citizens Hall of Fame. [read more]
October 1, 2009 - Canadian Jewish News By: Andy
Levy-Ajzenkopf
Parliament mulling national Holocaust monument
The push is on in the House of Commons to try for the establishment of a national
Holocaust monument in Ottawa. [read more]
September 4, 2009 - Chronicle-Herald.ca By: Michael
Lightstone
Canada’s human rights museum crosses country in search of stories
Residential schools forced on native children. Japanese families sent to Second
World War-era internment camps. Black citizens resisting racism in their struggle
for civil rights.
[read more]
March 26, 2009 - The Gazette (Montreal) By: Jeff
Heinrich
Food, drink, understanding; Ste. Agathe’s Jews try to build bridges with their
neighbours - at a seder table
Ste. Agathe des Monts, Quebec — The French-Canadian mayor gave a speech referring
to details of Judaism he’d researched online. An Anglican minister and a
Roman Catholic bishop came in their clerical collars with guests in tow.
[read more]
December 18, 2008 - Canadian Jewish News (Montreal)
By: Heather Solomon
Museum shows Jews are from same cloth, just different thread
NICOLET, Quebec — When the Musée des Religions du Monde in Nicolet,
Que., was asked to help put together a bilingual panel exhibition on Quebec
City’s Jewish community for that city’s 400th birthday, a plan began
to take form. [read more]
December 7, 2008 - The Gazette By: John Kalbfleisch
Two-Gun Cohen saved Sun Yat-sen’s widow and Zionists’ hopes
“A few dozen men and women met early yesterday at Bonaventure Station
for the sole purpose of meeting the fairytale Chinese general, a Jew by birth,
a Canadian citizen, Gen. Morrice Cohen, a former aide-de-camp to the famous
rebuilder of China, Dr. Sun Yatsen.” - Gazette, Friday, Dec. 3,
1943 [read more]
December 5, 2008 - Jewish Independent By: Ron Friedman
Choosing to end hatred; School launches anti-racism educational program
With singing and dancing, the students of Sir William Osler Elementary School
in Vancouver celebrated the launch of a new anti-racism program. Developed by
Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and sponsored by FAST – Fighting Anti-Semitism
Together, the program will be piloted at William Osler, before heading to other
schools. [read more]
June 12, 2008 - Canadian Jewish News By: Bill Gladstone
Tulchinsky’s history of Canada’s Jews is an impressive work
Gerald Tulchinsky, professor emeritus of history at Queen’s University in Kingston,
has just produced his magnum opus in the form of a new 630-page book, Canada’s Jews: A People’s Journey,
published by the University of Toronto Press in both hardcover and softcover. [read
more]
May 23, 2008 - The Jewish Independent By: Cynthia
Ramsay
Jewish history, life, culture, education, music, politics and more featured
in ACJS sessions
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies (ACJS) will be holding its annual
conference at the University of British Columbia this year. The event provides
a platform for original scholarly research in Canadian Jewish history, life
and culture from an array of disciplines and, this year, the entire Jewish community
is invited to attend New Views on Canada’s Jews: A Day of Discovery. [read
more]
April 16, 2007 - The Windsor Star By: Sonja Puzic
Legacy of hope
Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee CEO Bernie Farber attended the
Holocaust remembrance commemoration in Windsor Sunday, addressing an audience
at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue. [read
more]
April 14, 2007 - National Post By: Bernie M. Farber
Confronting Treblinka; On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 15,
Bernie M. Farber writes of his emotional trip to the Nazi concentration camp
that claimed his father’s family [click
here]
February 27, 2007 - Brock Press By: Maria Kotovych
Genocide is not a thing of the past
EDMONTON (CUP) - When Tharcisse Seminega and his family emerged after hiding in a dark underground room for over a month, their skin had been deprived of sunlight for so long they were nearly unrecognizable. But it was because of their hiding spot that Seminega and his family survived the genocide of Tutsis that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. [click
here]
February 15, 2007 - Canadian Jewish News By: Diane
Koven
Ottawa man faces rights complaint for web hate
OTTAWA - Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman has launched a case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against Bobby James Wilkinson, an alleged white supremacist who lives in the capital. [click
here]
January 6, 2007 - Globe and Mail By: Bernie Farber
Personal Memoir: Hava nagila, Havana
HAVANA - After a few days in Cuba, even the warbling sounds
of a nervous bar mitzvah boy’s voice acquire a sultry rumba beat. Just
as well — this certainly wasn’t your average bar mitzvah. [click
here]
Dec. 14, 2006 - Canadian Jewish News By: Janice Arnold
Data for Canadian Jewish vets goes online
MONTREAL - After a five-year investigation, the Canadian Jewish
Congress (CJC) archives department has been able to confirm the deaths and burial
sites of 570 Canadian Jews or Jews serving in the Canadian forces killed
during the two world wars, plus one in the Korean War. [click
here]
Nov 10, 2006 - Edmonton Journal By: Jim Farrell
Local Jews mark Kristallnacht anniversary
A 12-year-old boy watched over his tiny video camera Thursday, anxious to catch
every one of Bernie Farber’s words as the CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress
talked about the night the Nazis stepped up their war against Jews. [click
here]
Oct 27, 2006 - Toronto Star By: Peter Howell
Why it's okay to laugh at Borat
For people who didn't get the joke, the offer of a nice warm cup of horse urine
outside Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood Monday night was something less
than a friendly gesture. [click here]
Oct 26, 2006 - The Kitchener Record By: Melinda Dalton
'Hate assault' not a specific crime, public forum told
The July attack on Sudanese refugee Francis Pitia and allegations the assault
was racially motivated has mobilized a group of citizens concerned with keeping
hate out of the community. [click here]
Sep 28, 2006 - Canadian Jewish News By: Ron Csillag
Grant will help expand Shoah writing contest
TORONTO — Rarely has an Ontario cabinet minister sounded
as effusive about Holocaust education as when Mike Colle, the minister of citizenship
and immigration, announced a $12,000 provincial grant last week to help fund
a creative writing and art contest for students. [click
here]
Sep 20, 2006 - Canadian Jewish News By: Heather Solomon
Weiser and Rosen sow ritual art on the web
When Barbara Weiser went back to school 30 years after earning her bachelor’s
degree in sociology, she had no idea that her research toward a master’s
degree in Jewish studies at Concordia University would turn into a cross-Canada
treasure hunt. [click here]
Sep 12, 2006 — Montreal Gazette By: Irwin Block
Teaching material on anti-Semitism to be tailored for Quebec classrooms:
Bank executive Comper decries ‘one-sided’ criticism of Israel’s
policies
One-sided and disproportionate criticism of Israel inflames anti-Semitism, the
president and chief executive officer of BMO Financial Group warned yesterday.
[click here]
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