May 24, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada VANCOUVER – B.C. Premier John Horgan has withdrawn a certificate of recognition sent to a controversial Vancouver imam, following a month-long advocacy campaign by B’nai Brith Canada. In an email sent to B’nai Brith supporters on Thursday, the Premier’s Office […]
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May 23, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A banner proclaiming Jewish Heritage Month has been restored to the main foyer of a Toronto high school, following intense grassroots activism by Jewish students. The banner had been removed Tuesday after the principal at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute deemed it “too controversial,”
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May 23, 2018 By Reut Cohen Communications Associate B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A student who attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto says the high school has a history of adversely affecting Jewish students when it comes to Jewish cultural events. This follows B’nai Brith Canada’s revelation earlier Wednesday that the school removed a publicly
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May 23, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is expressing its outrage after the principal of a Toronto public school removed a banner made by students for Jewish Heritage Month, in a decision upheld by officials at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
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May 22, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada VANCOUVER – A firebrand Vancouver imam recently lauded by B.C. Premier John Horgan has doubled down on his antisemitic and homophobic rhetoric just days after the Premier’s Office refused to withdraw its letter of recognition. On Sunday, Tarek Ramadan of the
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May 18, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – New information exposed by B’nai Brith Canada suggests that a Gazan paramedic slain after assisting Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani was a member of the Hamas terrorist group and employed by its interior ministry. According to the Gaza-based Palestinian Information Center, Musa Abuhassanin was a 36-year-old Captain of the Gazan Civil Defence.
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May 14, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A flag of the Hezbollah terrorist group was spotted alongside Palestinian flags and makeshift signs falsely accusing Israel of apartheid at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto Saturday, just weeks after a similar incident in Montreal involving a PFLP flag. Both Hezbollah and the
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May 11, 2018 By Noa Levin Communications and Social Media Associate B’nai Brith Canada After receiving several calls from employees of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), B’nai Brith Canada is expressing serious concern that the TTC is using gelatin, a non-kosher animal byproduct, in its random drug-testing kits. B’nai Brith is cooperating with the Amalgamated
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May 8, 2018 By Reut Cohen Communications Associate B’nai Brith Canada Alfred Schaefer, a German-Canadian Holocaust denier, has been convicted of incitement to hatred in Germany, the German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung reported on May 5. Schaefer was charged in connection to a speech that he delivered at a February, 2017 rally in the German city of Dresden. In
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May 7, 2018 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is proud to announce it is hosting local debates at three Toronto-area synagogues in the run-up to Ontario’s June 7 provincial election. Debates will take place at the Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue in Eglinton-Lawrence on May 22, Chabad Flamingo in Thornhill on May 23, and the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Willowdale
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