see also w-n on Muslims, race, Canadian Indians, Immigration

2008

Thursday 18 September 2008 Anti-Jew, anti-Muslim views on rise in Europe

Wednesday 19 March 2008 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germans are ashamed of the Holocaust in an historic address before the Israeli Parliament during the third day of her visit which is timed to mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel. Mrs. Merkel began her remarks with a sentence in Hebrew thanking the legislators for having granted her the great honour of addressing them in German. She then stated that the assassination of six million Jews perpetrated in the name of Germany caused the Jews, Europeans and the entire world an indescribable suffering. The lawmakers greeted the 20-minute address with an ovation. Several legislators, however, boycotted the speech.

Monday 11 February 2008 MONTREAL: JEWISH AND MUSLIM GROUPS STAGE JOINT PROTEST
About 200 people held a protest rally in downtown Montreal on Saturday to demand an end to what they called the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Some 30 different groups representing Jewish and Muslim communities organized the event.

Saturday Feb 2, 2008 Divorcé wants Supreme Court to rehear case
A Montreal man who took years to grant his wife a Jewish divorce has taken the exceptional step of asking...

Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land Israel's remote Cave of Letters holds clues to a Jewish uprising against the Romans.

Thursday Jan 3, 2008 Supreme Court's get ruling remains disturbing
My Dec. 26 opinion article on the Supreme Court's decision in the Jewish divorce case has provoked a flurry of letters to the editor.

2007

Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 Supreme Court sets bad precedent for religious rights
This month, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a watershed judgment on religious freedom, gender equality and marriage.
Today, most world religions affirm the fundamental equality of men and women, but they don't believe gender equality means a form of gender neutrality. If we are planning to enshrine gender equality as a trump right over religious freedom, it would be helpful to have some clarity concerning its core meaning.

Thursday 15 February 2007 Zundel jailed five years for Holocaust denial
Far-right activist Ernst Zundel was convicted of 14 counts of incitement Thursday for Holocaust denial and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison.

2006

Irving Layton, 93

Canadian poet Irving Layton 1912-2006 died Wednesday in a Montreal The 93-year old poet, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Layton published more than 40 books of poetry and prose over more than five decades

Once described as being both "the Picasso and the Mae West of poetry," Layton will be remembered not only for his often erotic verse but also for his abrasive ego, outrageous opinions, entertaining love life and bitter feuds, as well as for being a provocative, stimulating teacher.
Story by ALAN HUSTAK

Poland and its Jews
Review of the book "Shtetl" by Irene Tomaszewski published in The Globe and Mail on the 15th November 1997. The book SHTETL, the life and death of a small town and the world of the Polish Jews by Eva Hoffman, Houghton Mifflin,269 pages.

2007

Saturday 01 September 2007 GERMANY
A symbol of Jewish renaissance in Germany has reopened today in Berlin. About 1,000 people attended a ceremony marking the restoration of Germany's biggest synagogue. The building in East Berlin narrowly avoided destruction in 1938, when Nazis burned Jewish homes and businesses in a night of destruction known as Kristallnacht. Less than 7,000 Jews remained in Berlin after the war, but in the past decade, an influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union had made Germany one of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in the world. The rabbi at the reopened synagogue came from Belarus.

Monday 06 August 2007 The Jewish Television Network, a nonprofit television production and distribution company, is streaming music videos by Jewish performers, cooking shows and Israeli news programs. The network is also planning to stream religious services during the High Holy Days in September, the sort of broadcast that would be hard to find on mainstream television.

Wednesday 25 July 2007 TORONTO: INTERFAITH TV GIVES PULPIT TO RADICAL IMAM
The Jewish lobby B'nai British says it will lodge a formal complaint against VisionTV for having for a second time given airtime to a radical Pakistani preacher who refers to Jews as "parasites" and considers the Holocaust as "divine punishment." The Canadian Jewish Congress says VisionTV must now make it clear whether it wants to associate itself with Israr Ahmad. On Friday, VisionTV, which bills itself as Canada's only interfaith broadcaster, apologized for having given airtime to the Muslim preacher but then gave him another hour on Saturday. A VisionTV executive last week described him as a religious scholar. Ahmad heads an organization that seeks to turn Pakistan as a fundmentalist state which will serve as a springboard for the global domination of Islam.

Wed1306 Sunday Mar 11, 2007
First, however, Dr. Alexandra Tcheremenska-Greenhill, who promises to be with us this week, has reminded us that beginning at sundown, March 14 is Purim, "one of the liveliest of all the Jewish festivals. The Feast of Purim honors the execution of the Persian Haman, who attempted to eliminate the Jewish people. Queen Esther, with the help of her uncle Mordechai, risked her life to abort Haman's plot, and Haman was later hanged by Esther's husband, King Achashverosh. Parties are held at synagogues and in the streets, and special triangular cookies — symbolizing the three-cornered hat of Haman (the hat of a fool) — are prepared." We are not sure why she sent us this information, but if you feel that you or we should act upon it, state your case.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Biz @ Nite - Stock Picks for 2006
January 4th 2006 - Rob Snow speaks with Murray Pollitt from Pollitt and Co. about stocks in the year ahead. (Pt 1)
mp3 (click here to download)

Michael Kroniish & Mireille Silcott

Mireille Silcott Wed #1025 NP story Thursday Jan 5, 2006 Bringing some chutzpah to the diaspora Until a few years ago, Mireille Silcoff didn't know what to do with her Jewishness.

2005

Sunday Aug 7, 2005 ts
`A perfect lesson for humanity`
MONTREAL—Take a Muslim cabbie from New York City, a Jewish businessman from Montreal and a forgotten suitcase containing diamonds and precious stones and what do you get? [but not here, a cabbie did not return a $900 camera!]

Lessons learned Joe Schlesinger on Canada, anti-semitism and hatred.

Wednesday Apr 6, 2005 ts
Belief about Jews remains, hate trial told
SASKATOON—Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew told his hate trial yesterday he still believes Jews were the cause of World War II.

Tuesday Jan 11, 2005 ts Killing linked to hate against Jews
A Toronto murder that captured headlines around the world nearly three years ago after being described as a "hate crime" against Jews was resolved quietly in a courtroom yesterday.

Tuesday Jan 25, 2005 from Wed1195
In many parts of the world, public and politicians commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps [We note sadly that according to an Environics survey, nearly 30% of Canadians couldn't identify that Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust as the UN is due to announce whether or not a genocide is being committed in Darfur against black African groups. How much - and how little - has changed.

Friday 21 January 2005 From NEW YORK (CBS.MW)
Charest bristles at criticism of fund hike for Jewish schools The Quebec government yesterday stood by its decision to increase funding to Jewish private schools amid a wave of criticism from the Parti Quebecois opposition and other groups accusing it of creating social tensions.

Wednesday Jun 23, 2004 cbc
A group of Jewish condo owners in Montreal have won a ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada allowing them to put up temporary, religious structures on their balconies.

Saturday 15 May 2004 cbc
5 ARRESTED IN MONTREAL JEWISH SCHOOL FIREBOMBING Montreal police have arrested five people in the firebombing of a Jewish school last month.

Wednesday Apr 7, 2004 cc
Attack has police on high alert With Montrealers still reeling from the firebombing of a Jewish school in St. Laurent, police remained on high alert yesterday, the National Assembly unanimously condemned the attack as an anti-Semitic hate crime - and offers of help began coming in. [this could be the work of one deranged frustraed idoit and not deserving of any coverage until prover a danger!]

Christians and Jews The season of the lambs Apr 7th 2004

Wednesday Apr 7, 2004 ec
Christians and Jews Russian table talk Spiritual divisions in a good Jewish family

Sunday Apr 4, 2004 cbc
Toronto Jews live their faith publicly In France religious Jews have been warned against wearing their skullcaps on the street. It was safer, the chief rabbi of France said last winter, for young Jewish men to walk in groups, not alone. They should wear baseball caps instead of the traditional head covering to avoid being attacked by anti-Semites, Rabbi Joseph Sitruk said.

Thursday Jan 22, 2004 cbc
BAN BANDANAS AND BEARDS IN CLASSROOMS: FRENCH MINISTER France's education minister says bandanas and beards should be banned along with Muslim headscarves, Jewish yarmulkes and large Christian crosses in classrooms. see France

Sunday Jan 4, 2004 OTTAWA: A WAR HERO'S STORY - SEARCHING FOR ITS CONCLUSION A prominent Canadian human rights lawyer says the story of Raoul Wallenberg is not yet complete and is urging the Canadian government to press Russian officials for more access to archival information. David Matas says the world still does not know what happened to the Swedish diplomat after he was arrested by the Russians in 1945. Mr. Wallenberg was stationed in Budapest during the Second World War and saved as many as 20-thousand Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. He issued Swedish passports to many of them. When the Soviet army captured Budapest, he was arrested as a spy. Two years ago, Russia admitted Mr. Wallenberg had been imprisoned there, and said he died in a Russian cell.

2003

Thursday Dec 18, 2003 bbc

Happy Hanukkah Why the 2003 Jewish 'festival of lights' is particularly symbolic

Wednesday Aug 13, 2003 bbc
Gibson film 'fuels hate mail' A US rabbi says Mel Gibson's film about the death of Christ is fuelling anti-Semitism months before it is released.

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 cbc
WIESENTHAL CENTER CITES HATE, TERRORISM WEB PAGES Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies has released a list of more than 200 Web sites it says promote terrorism and hate.

Monday Jun 9, 2003 MONTREAL: HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IS INAUGURATED
A new Holocaust museum was inaugurated in Montreal on Sunday. The museum is at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, which estimates 25,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the city after the Second World War. As many as 8,000 are still alive, making the population the third largest in the world after Israel and New York City. The centre's museum, which opens to the public June 30th, is believed to be Canada's only site dedicated solely to the Holocaust.

Thursday Apr 17, 2003 cbc
FRENCH JEWS OWED $137 MILLION IN RESTITUTION Jews whose assets were seized by the pro-Nazi regime in France during the Second World War should receive at least $137 million in compensation.

Friday Mar 7, 2003 nyt
Is It Good for the Jews?
By BILL KELLER

Friday Jan 17, 2003 ts McDonough urges U.S. to stop funding Israeli army NDP leader seeks role for Canada in brokering peace Critics say party too sympathetic to Palestinian cause

Friday Jan 17, 2003 nyt The New Math
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
You can understand everything you need to know about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a simple equation.

Monday Jan 13, 2003 WINNIPEG: ASPER DEMANDS OUSTER OF LEBANESE One of Canada's media magnates has called on the Canadian government to declare Mr. Baaklini "persona non grata" to remove him from the country. Izzy Asper, founder of the CanWest Global Communications Corp., calls the ambassador's comments "offensive, untruthful and otherwise unacceptable."Mr. Asper says Mr. Baaklini's remarks are typical of the lies and propaganda common in the government-controlled media in many Arab nations the purpose of which is to incite hatred of Jews.

2002

Tuesday Dec 24, 2002 ul
How to have a Jewish Christmas By 9 o'clock tonight, most restaurants in Montreal will be closed and most bars will have been shuttered. Even the movie theatres will take a break from their brisk holiday business on this, the holiest of nights on the Christian calendar.

Sunday Dec 22, 2002 cc
by Beryl Wajsman President (www.iapm.ca) We have all been frustrated by certain aspects in the recent coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in our national media. It is unacceptable that a sister democracy is too often held to a double standard by some newsmen who are quite balanced and informed on other issues. The Institute has made a concerted effort over the past several weeks to talk and meet with some 23 producers,editors and reporters, in both the English and French sectors, covering this issue. Our staff has produced a memorandum for them called Israel:Myths & Facts-A Checklist for Media Accuracy.

Sunday Dec 22, 2002 cbc
COON COME APOLOGIZES TO SYNAGOGUE The grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations stood before Canada's oldest Jewish congregation Saturday and condemned recent anti-Semitic comments by a former native leader.

Friday Dec 20, 2002 cbc
Latest rant part of new wave of anti-Semitism
So now we know where mainstream Canadian society draws the line on anti-Semitism: claiming Hitler was right when he "fried'' 6 million Jews — that's, like, really, really bad.

Tuesday Dec 17, 2002 rci REGINA: NATIVE'S VIEWS ON JEWS CAUSES UPROAR A native leader in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan has caused a national furore over his comments on Friday about Jews. David Ahenakew, says the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was right to have "fried" six million Jews to prevent them from taking over the world. Mr. Ahenakew claimed the Jews owned most of Germany before World War Two, whence the necessity of a Hitler. He also referred to Jews as "a disease." Mr. Ahenakew is a member of the senate of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and a former leader of the Assembly of First Nations, the biggest native organization in Canada. Its current leader, Matthew Coon Come, has called the comments ignorant and suggests Mr. Ahenakew resign from his official position in Saskatchewan. The Canadian Jewish Congress has recommended that the federal government take back Mr. Ahenakew's Order of Canada award. And the Saskatchewan government has referred the matter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for them to see whether Mr. Ahenakew should be prosecuted under Canada's hate crimes legislation.

Tuesday Dec 10, 2002 OTTAWA: HEZBOLLAH BANNED ENTIRELY The CTV television network reports that the Canadian government has decided to ban the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah entirely and will announce the decision on Wednesday-. CTV says the decision was made at a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The government had put Hezbollah's armed wing on a list of 13 banned organizations the assets of which banks are required to freeze, but the group's charitable fund-raising activities had been allowed to continue. The government has apparently revised its attitude toward both wings of Hezbollah after its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, recently called on Palestinians to expand their campaign of suicide bombings to include the whole world. Last week, a Jewish lobby, B'nai Brith Canada, launched a lawsuit against the government to force it to order a freeze of all of Hezbollah's assets. Federal police have reported that the group's fund-raising activities include selling stolen cars.

Thursday Dec 12, 2002 OTTAWA:
HEZBOLLAH BANNED BECAUSE OF CALL FOR WORLD-WIDE SUICIDE BOMBINGS Canada's foreign minister, Bill Graham, says the Canadian government imposed a total ban on the activities in Canada of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah because of remarks made last week by its leader. Mr. Graham says the comments by Sheik Hassan Nasrullah prove that Hezbollah is no different from other terrorist groups. Sheik Nasrullah called on Palestinians to carry out suicide bombings around the world. Previously, the government had banned Hezbollah's military wing but allowed it to raise money for charities. Federal police had warned that some of the money was being raised through the sale of stolen cars. Opposition and Jewish groups had been pressing the government for months to shut down Hezbollah entirely. The Canadian Jewish Congress congratulated the government for its decision, calling Hezbollah "one of the most dangerous international terrorist networks in the world."

Thursday Dec 12, 2002 Pressure forced Liberals to outlaw
The Liberal government has branded the Lebanese-based group Hezbollah a terrorist organization in the face of mounting pressure from Jewish groups and the opposition.

Monday Dec 9, 2002 cbc QUEBEC UNIVERSITY CANCELS BEIRUT LECTURE Security concerns were cited as the University du Quebec announced it wouldn't provide a room for an Israeli journalist who wanted to speak about his experiencs in Beirut.

Friday Dec 6, 2002 cbc JEWISH GROUP BANNED FROM CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY There's more conflict at Montreal's Concordia University. The Jewish group Hillel has been suspended by the student union for handing out pamphlets at an information table.

Monday Dec 2, 2002 OTTAWA: CAPLAN SAYS ACTION COMING ON HEZBOLLAH Canada's federal minister of revenue, Elinor Caplan, says the federal cabinet intends to list Hezbollah, a radical Lebanese group, as a terrorist organization. But Ms. Caplan says cabinet must first gather evidence to support putting Hezbollah on Ottawa's list of organizations banned because of links to terrorism. Last Wednesday, Ottawa added six groups to its list of terrorist groups. Hezbollah wasn't added because along with its political and military wings, the group also does humanitarian work. Fund-raising within Hezbollah's military wing is already prohibited in Canada. B'nai Brith Canada announced last week it is asking the Federal Court of Canada to force Ottawa to freeze Hezbollah's Canadian assets

Monday Dec 2, 2002 cbc
B'NAI BRITH TAKES LEGAL ROUTE TO FORCE OTTAWA TO BAN HEZBOLLAH The Jewish human rights group B'nai Brith is suing the Canadian government and two top cabinet ministers for failing to ban a radical Lebanese terrorist group.

April 12, 2002 Canada's Courage

Sunday Dec 1, 2002 OTTAWA:
JEWISH GROUP WANTS TOTAL BAN ON HEZBOLLAH B'nai Brith Canada has launched a lawsuit to oblige the federal government to freeze all assets of the radical Lebanese group Hezbollah. B'nai Brith Canada says the government has "a duty at law" to stop Hezbollah from raising funds in Canada. Earlier this week, the government placed the Lebanese group's military wing on a list of terrorist groups whose assets must be frozen, but excluded Hezbollah's charitable activities. The lawyer representing B'nai Brith Canada says the government is making an arbitrary distinction by dividing Hezbollah's fundraising and military activities. Canada's solicitor general, Wayne Easter, says he wants to limit his judgments in the affair to criminal and intelligence matters only. Federal police and the Canadian Intelligence and Security Service have reported that Hezbollah's money-making activities include collecting charitable donations and stealing luxury cars. The Canadian Arab Federation claims Hezbollah has engaged in little military activity in the last two decades apart from resisting Israel's former occupation of southern Lebanon.

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