More Jews in Los Angeles Than in Canada

By Pini Herman
Published on May 9, 2013

Police: Toronto couple murdered in Florida were asphyxiated

Published on March 6, 2013

A Toronto Jewish couple found dead in their Florida townhouse in January were asphyxiated, police said.

Toronto rabbi charged for alleged sexual assault after 40 years

Published on August 31, 2012

A 71-year-old rabbi in Toronto has been charged with indecent assault for allegedly sexually assaulting a student 40 years ago.

Coming Home For a Good Cry

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 14, 2012

Leaving Home or Going Home?

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 9, 2012

Toronto temple in uproar over rabbi’s departure

Published on May 29, 2012

One of the world's best-known Reform temples reportedly is in turmoil over the unexpected departure of its rabbi.

Anti-Israel group setting up battle with plans to rejoin Toronto gay pride parade

Published on May 16, 2012

The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is planning to return to the gay pride parade in Toronto, setting up another battle with Jewish groups and the city.

An Englishman and a Canadian Walk Into a Bar

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 1, 2012

Toronto woman charged in Holocaust claims case

Published on April 27, 2012

A woman living in Toronto was charged in the United States with taking part in a scheme to steal from a Holocaust survivors' fund.

‘Oh My G-d!’ Where’s my faith?

By Lauren Bottner
Published on November 28, 2011

Toronto ‘rabbi’ arrested for immigration fraud in U.S.

Published on October 14, 2011

A former lawyer who calls himself a rabbi was arrested in Toronto and faces extradition to the United States where authorities allege he ran a massive immigration fraud scheme.

Toronto Synagogue defaced with swastikas

Published on August 5, 2011

Toronto Police are investigating several swastikas spray-painted around the city in recent days.

Holocaust women’s rape reports break decades of taboo

Published on June 3, 2011

Gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other conflict zones around the world is a subject of continual research and education through witness testimonials, podcasts and information presented by the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. But this year the museum took a look back, delving into a topic from history that, surprisingly, is entirely new pivotal research about the rape of Jewish women during the Holocaust, described in a new book by two female scholars.

Queers Against Israel Apartheid quits Toronto parade

Published on April 18, 2011

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid said it will not participate in the Toronto Pride Parade. The group, which has raised controversy with its planned participation in the parade, was announced its decision in an April 15 news release.

City funding OK for parade including Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, says Toronto official

Published on April 14, 2011

A decision by Toronto's city manager would permit city funding for the Toronto Pride Parade regardless of the participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. The city manager's report was in response to a motion put forward last year by the City Council to determine whether city funding for the parade should be withdrawn in 2011 because of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid's participation, which some say violates the city's anti-discrimination policy.

Canadian government to help fund Jewish campus

Published on March 16, 2011

Canada's federal government will contribute up to $15 million toward the building of a massive Jewish community campus north of Toronto. Monday's announcement was made by Julian Fantino, Canada's minister of state for seniors. The federal funds will support the third phase of the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus project, a sprawling 50-acre site in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan. Its services are to be phased in from 2012 to 2016.

Brother slams thesis writer for citing grandmother

Published on December 17, 2010

The brother of the author of a thesis accepted by he University of Toronto that calls Holocaust education programs "racist" slammed her for invoking their Holocaust survivor grandmother in her defense. Jenny Peto, a Jewish activist with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, attacks in her thesis the March of Remembrance and Hope, through which young adults of diverse backgrounds travel with Holocaust survivors to sites of Nazi atrocities in Poland, and March of the Living Canada, part of an international program that takes young Jews and survivors to Poland and Israel. Peto argues the programs cause Jews to believe they are innocent victims. In reality, she writes, they are privileged white people who "cannot see their own racism."

Toronto threatens gay parade’s funding over anti-Israel group

Published on April 22, 2010

The city of Toronto has threatened to withdraw funding from a gay pride parade if an anti-Israel group is allowed to participate.

Toronto film fest calls Israeli PR strategy into question

Published on September 15, 2009

When Amir Gissin helped come up with an idea to remake Israel's international image several years ago, it's unlikely he imagined that the showcasing of Israeli films in Toronto would spark a star-studded Hollywood brouhaha over artistic expression and cultural boycotts.

Jane Fonda responds to Toronto backlash

Published on September 14, 2009

I recently signed a letter protesting the Toronto International Film Festival's decision to showcase and celebrate Tel Aviv. This in the very year when Gaza happened.

Protest sparked over Toronto Film Festival’s focus on Tel Aviv

By Danielle Berrin
Published on September 3, 2009

Habonim spirit influences work of director Mike Leigh in ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 10, 2008

Leigh's physician father and midwife mother met through Habonim, the Labor Zionist youth movement, in 1936. Mike Leigh, in turn, became a Habonim leader and traveled with the group to Israel on a ship as a teenager. The experience had a dramatic effect on his future work as an artist: "The atmosphere was one of chevrah, of sharing, openness and coming together -- of making things happen by colluding -- which describes the spirit of how I work with actors and the atmosphere of my rehearsals."

Briefs: Katsav backs out of sex charges plea deal, Al Qaeda has more threats for the Jews

Published on April 10, 2008

News Briefs

Craig Prizant, philanthropreneurship and evangelicals

Published on March 15, 2007

Letters to the Editor

What we need: Philanthropreneurship

By Gary Wexler
Published on March 1, 2007

I'm learning that to American eyes, Canada can be very deceptive. It looks and smells like America, but scratch the surface and our northern neighbor is a million miles away. It's a very different place and culture.

Shlub to Hero: Film Sketches Gehry Life

By Morris Newman
Published on May 18, 2006

Gehry's creative solution -- his psychoanalytic victory -- was to embrace the delight of free-form design, while making sure that his buildings met the needs of his clients. His freedom in designing what appear to be purely sculptural objects that subsequently win rapturous praise must make him the envy of all architects who secretly wish they could find such willing clients.

Class Notes

By Julie G Fax
Published on October 13, 2005

Class Notes

Briefs

By World Briefs
Published on April 30, 2003

World Briefs