Dear Friends, This Rosh Hashanah, you’ll have the opportunity to wish your friends and loved ones a sweet and prosperous new year with these B’nai Brith Canada tribute cards, the perfect way to say Happy New Year! Your support will allow B’nai Brith to continue its ongoing efforts in fighting against racism and antisemitism, protecting …
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August 23, 2017 By Hailey Kobrin Communications Associate B’nai Brith Canada B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to announce that Ran Ukashi has joined the organization as Regional Director in Manitoba. Ukashi brings forth vast experience as a Policy Analyst in the Health, and Indigenous and Northern Affairs sectors of the Province of Manitoba, and other organizations. As …
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August 11, 2017 By Daniel Koren and Tevy Pilc Media Coordinator | Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO/INDIANAPOLIS – For the first time in its 104-year history, international Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) has chosen a Canadian charity – B’nai Brith Canada – as one of its philanthropic partners. AEPi has pledged to raise $25,000 for B’nai Brith Canada’s ongoing human rights …
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May 9, 2017 TORONTO – The year 2016 was a record-setting year for antisemitism in Canada, B’nai Brith Canada’s Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents has found. Now in its 35th year, the Audit is the definitive and authoritative resource on antisemitism in Canada, cited regularly by law-enforcement agencies, government bodies, and human rights organizations around the world. According to the Audit, …
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CTV News Winnipeg’s Michelle Gerwing spoke to Amanda Hohmann, National Director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, on Jan. 5, 2017, regarding an antisemitic incident involving rock containing a swastika and antisemitic messages that was left outside a Jewish family’s home in Winnipeg.
By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada The year 2016 was marked by social tension, international unrest and political uncertainty. In Canada, minorities were subjected to racism and xenophobia and in Toronto, for the 11th straight year, the annual Hate Crimes report from Toronto Police Services showed that the Jewish community is the city’s single …
Dear friends, On behalf of B’nai Brith Canada, I would like to express our gratitude for your ongoing support of our organization. It is only through your generosity that we are able to help improve the quality of life for so many in our community. As 2016 nears its end, it has become clear that …
As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Ronit Eskenasi, who’s family came from Lebanon. Ronit’s grandfather was successful in smuggling several Jews out of Lebanon, wearing only the clothes on their backs, in the wake of rising antisemitism. Her …
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As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Noemi Lieberman, originally from Tripoli, Libya. In 1947, wearing only the clothes on their backs, she and her family were forced to flee Libya, leaving all their possessions behind. To this …
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From the 1940s until the 1970s, and heightening with the founding of Israel in 1948, nearly 1-million Jews were expelled from their homes across Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Algeria and Iran. In Egypt, the government arrested and charged Jews with being part of Zionist or Communist plots. They seized Jewish assets, …
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