In honour of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, Midwest Region, presents the reading of the names of Holocaust victims. By personalizing the individual tragedy of its victims and survivors, this program seeks to defy the dangerous trends of indifference and ignorance and will restore a degree of […]
Unto Every Person There is a Name – Winnipeg Yom Hashoah Ceremony Read More »
Dear Friends, We are only two months into the year 2017, and yet, we have already witnessed several offensive and blatantly antisemitic incidents across Canada. We’ve seen religious leaders call for the destruction of Judaism in Quebec, a bomb threat at a London, Ont. Jewish community centre, mezuzahs ripped apart and vandalized in Toronto, antisemitic
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B’nai Brith Canada is delighted to announce that NHL Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne and Toronto Mayor John Tory will participate in the 2nd Annual B’nai Brith Charity Golf Classic, which will take place at the breathtaking new Lebovic Golf Club in Aurora, Ont., on Monday, June 12, 2017. To register, click here. Designed by renowned architect Doug
Feb. 22, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director, League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – At least three Jewish institutions across Canada received antisemitic hate mail during the past week calling to “expel the Jews to the lake of fire,” B’nai Brith Canada has learned. The letter, which also equates Jews with the “synagogue of Satan,” was sent to Jewish community centres in Windsor and Victoria last week, and the Forest
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Feb. 22, 2017 B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn spoke at a news conference on Wednesday, Feb, 22, 2017, alongside Toronto police and Mayor John Tory at the Toronto Police Service Division 32 headquarters following incidents of antisemitic vandalism in Toronto, most notably, when post-it notes with
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Dear Friends, The time has come for Canada to finally get serious about addressing antisemitism and hatred against its Jewish community. Over the last few years, several clear instances of antisemitic hate crimes have occurred throughout the country, though appropriate charges were never laid. B’nai Brith Canada has been diligent in reporting these hate crimes
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By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada First it was Mayor Brian Bowman. Disturbed by the antisemitic incident that took place last month in the Wolseley neighbourhood of Winnipeg – when a couple arrived at their home to find a rock painted with the words, “Die Jew Bitch. EinsatzGruppen” and other antisemitic slurs – the
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada B’nai Brith Canada is mourning the passing of Frank Kettner, who served as Calgary Lodge president from 1957 through 1958. Kettner died on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. He was 88. He was born in Winnipeg in 1929 and lived most of his life in Calgary. “I knew
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Bowling has long been one of the signature pastimes of B’nai Brith Canada members and volunteers. Over the past few weekends, this trend was on full display in the cities of Montreal and Winnipeg. The 101st annual Winnipeg Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA) Tournament kicked off Sunday, Jan.
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MONTREAL – With a mission to develop, produce and broker new Quebec theatre to ever-widening audiences, the team at Infinithéâtre is committed to staging theatre that is as entertaining as it is relevant. Enter Oren Safdie, whose new play Mr. Goldberg Goes to Tel Aviv makes its world premiere on Jan. 30, 2017 at the St. James Theatre
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