VISIT UOFTTOWNHALL.CA ON TUESDAY EVENING TO WATCH THIS EVENT Tuesday evening will be a night our community won’t soon forget. In an unprecedented manner, Jewish organizations and synagogues from all backgrounds and walks of community life will come together to listen to a story that has caused a lot of grief, but has largely gone […]
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March 18, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has formally conveyed its concern to federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh about riding association motions recommending that the NDP oppose the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. We understand that this may presage an effort to have the IHRA definition of antisemitism rejected nationally at their
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The University of Toronto has an antisemitism problem – and the Jewish community has had enough of it. For years now, Jewish students and faculty members at U of T have tried to call attention to the lack of action on the university’s part in preventing and addressing particular antisemitic incidents. From the infamous kosher
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March 11, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is challenging this country’s mayors to step up and do their part in the fight against antisemitism. The Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism will take place on Tues. March 16, and B’nai Brith is a partner in the project. Working together with the Combat Antisemitism Movement, we are using
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March 11, 2021 MONTREAL – A Montreal man has been arrested in connection with the desecration of a synagogue in May 2020, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Montreal Police (SPVM) told B’nai Brith that Patrice Belley-Gervais was arrested yesterday and appeared in court. His next court date is set for April 30, and he is facing
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March 9, 2021 TORONTO – A leading Canadian university has declined to respond to a report highlighting systemic antisemitism on all three of its campuses, even as incidents targeting Jewish students and community members continue to occur. In June 2020, B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights submitted a 30-page report to administrators at the University
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Update #1 March 8, 2021 WINNIPEG – The Evanov Radio Group, owner of several radio stations across the country, has ended its business relationship with Radio Maryja Canada following B’nai Brith Canada advocacy. Winnipeg-based CKJS AM 810, one of the stations owned by Evanov Radio, had been airing Radio Maryja – a Polish station with a
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March 3, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling out the University of Toronto for using the image of a notorious Palestinian terrorist to promote an upcoming event. Tomorrow afternoon, the University’s Institute of Islamic Studies, Department of History, and Centre for the Study of the United States will co-host: “Liberated Students in a Colonised
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March 2, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the University of Toronto to take immediate steps to implement a recent ruling against a mandatory “BDS Caucus” for graduate students. In a landmark ruling released on Feb. 4, the Complaint and Resolution Council for Student Societies (CRCSS) found that the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union
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February 26, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on Carleton University to publicly condemn antisemitism and speak out after one of its professors alleged that Jewish money was corrupting the institution, while casting aspersions on its Centre for Jewish Studies. In a Feb. 10 online event hosted by “Carleton University Students for Scholars at
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