By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada A Toronto couple is making what sources are saying is the largest individual donation to Tel Aviv University (TAU) from a non-corporate Canadian. The donation, from Aubrey and Marla Dan of Toronto, is $5-million (US). It’s going to the communications department at TAU. The department has been named the […]
By Reut Cohen B’nai Brith Canada The Boycott and Sanctions movement has suffered major legal setbacks in three Spanish municipalities: Olesa, Rivas Vaciamadrid, and La Guardia, The Jerusalem Post is reporting. A judge in Olesa (pop. 24,000) responded to a report commissioned by members of the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine, which had proposed a
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The diaries of Nazi mass murderer Heinrich Himmler have been found in the Russian Military Archive in Podolsk filed under Dnewnik, Russian for diary. The diaries contain Himmler’s personal life experiences throughout 1938, 1943, and 1944, as reported by Daily Mail. The diary mainly functioned as a service calendar containing dates, places,
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The Quebec Region of B’nai Brith Canada is collecting nonperishable goods, outerwear, underwear, and hygiene products for adults, children and babies as an ongoing project. Drop off location is at the B’nai Brith Quebec office located in the Cote St Luc Shopping Centre at 7155 Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Luc. The first box has been filled
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By Tevy Pilc and Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Even with the Rio Summer Olympics coming closer to starting, it was basketball in Israel that was making the loudest noise in this week’s top hoops headlines. It began with NBA veteran Amare Stoudemire announcing he is leaving the NBA and joining Israeli team Hapoel Jerusalem. And
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Should he decide to use it, Pope Francis will surely have no problem getting a good gym locker as the newest member of Krakow’s Jewish Community Center. At the end of his four-day visit to Poland for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Youth Day, the pontiff visited Archbishop Stanisław
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Kevin Pillar will have some company at the Toronto Blue Jays’ shabbat dinner table in the clubhouse… Not that they had one in the first place, but now he’ll have a more legitimate cause to start one. The Blue Jays acquired relief pitcher Scott Feldman in a
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B’nai Brith is delighted to announce that Jay Harris is the organization’s new Chair of the Board. Jay is a founding partner of Harris & Partners Inc., Licensed Insolvency Trustee and Restructuring firm and has always been passionate about his community. “We look forward to Jay participating in our leadership,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Israel is en route to become “a leading country in cyber defence,” according to a report from the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s Subcommittee for Cyber Affairs. The committee has released a statement that describes the consolidation of several cyber defence programs and the establishment of a National
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada The former South African ambassador to Israel is trashing his former diplomatic outpost…. Again. Using the Pretoria News as his mouthpiece, Ismail Coovadia launched into a lengthy diatribe of bizarre accusations and calls to support the boycott and sanctions movement against Israel and even a not so
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