Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee
The Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee, a separate arm of Canadian
Jewish Congress in place since 1967, helps to foster a stronger Jewish community
through a variety of charitable activities which support Jewish communal life.
The Charities Committee works to develop educational, interfaith and inter-cultural
opportunities for Canadian Jewry and strives for tolerance, understanding and
goodwill among all segments of society in a multicultural Canada. The committee
also works on humanitarian and social justice issues that affect the Jewish
community and Canadian society at large.
Among its many activities, the Charities Committee’s primary goals include:
The CJC Charities Committee office is located in Ottawa and has affiliated
offices across the country.
Working separately but in cooperation with the Charities Committee, Canadian
Jewish Congress advocates on behalf of Canadian Jewry to foster a Canada where
Jews, as part of the multicultural fabric of this country, live in and contribute
to an environment of opportunity and mutual respect. For more information on
the separate advocacy activities of Canadian Jewish Congress, click
here.
Passover Appeal
Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee continues to support the Jewish
community of Cuba through the Maot Chittin campaign, which provides kosher-for-Passover
food to this small but vibrant community. Your support of this program is greatly
appreciated. Please click here
for details of the 2010 campaign, information regarding contributions, and a
heartfelt letter from the Cuban community. For more information, contact Len
Rudner, Director, CJC Charities Committee, Ontario Region.
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 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 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. [read
more]