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Treasure Trove: How the State of Israel prepared for the announcement of its independence

The ceremony at which the State of Israel was proclaimed started at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 14, 1948—the British Mandate was ending at midnight...

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David Matlow

Ezra Shanken, the CEO of Vancouver’s Jewish Federation, explains why he skipped the provincial commemoration of Yom HaShoah

The heart of any community is its safety and security. The Jewish community is no different. If any one community lacks this most basic right, then...

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Ezra Shanken

Carleton university professor Deidre Butler on flying from Ottawa to Toronto to make it known that she’s standing with students

A rally organized by Canadian Women Against Antisemitism at Toronto’s Earl Bales Park on Sunday, May 5, focused on some recent student...

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Deidre Butler

Looking at those kids on the lawn: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new ‘youth’ movement on display in campus protests across North America

The young people are having a party and we’re not invited. You can read all about it in a recent New York Times story, “It’s Not Just Gaza:...

06.05.2024 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

A letter from Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger to the 2024 participants in the March of the Living trip that takes young Canadians from Poland to Israel

Dear March of the Living participants, Thank you for your courage to be part of this year’s March of the Living. In a way you are doing a mitzvah...

06.05.2024 20

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Nate Leipciger

A letter from Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger to the 2024 participants of March of the Living

Dear March of the Living participants, Thank you for your courage to be part of this year’s March of the Living. In a way you are doing a mitzvah...

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Nate Leipciger

Treasure Trove: A shard of glass from an East Berlin synagogue recalls the destruction of a Jewish community

This is a piece of broken glass from the Neue (New) Synagogue in Berlin. I am lucky that the Stasi, the state security service of East Germany,...

05.05.2024 9

Canadian Jewish News

David Matlow

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