After a weekend overnight shutdown of Israeli airspace, during which time Iranian missiles and drones attacked the country, Canadians were cautiously optimistic that travel to and from Ben Gurion Airport will resume regular schedules later this week. Air Canada cancelled departures from Toronto on Saturday and from Tel Aviv on Monday—the latter despite the airport […] The post Air Canada cancelled two Tel Aviv flights due to the Iranian missile attack—leaving some travellers to seek alternatives, or consider postponing trips appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

A long-lost chapter of the Holocaust found a resolution as silver plundered by the Nazis from Mina and Adolf Ackermann made its way back to London, Ont., the home of their sole surviving child. A small silver bowl crafted in the 17th century and a ceremonial lamp were two of Mina and Adolf’s cherished possessions, […] The post Eighty years after it was stolen, a German curator returned Nazi-looted silver to a museum in London, Ontario appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Remember Guernica? The highfalutin, U.S.-based, volunteer-run literary magazine that published then unpublished an essay by an Israeli writer, promised a “fulsome explanation” for what that was all about. I’m sure that, in lieu of following Iranian missile news, you’ve been on the edge of your seat, waiting to hear what was new at Guernica. Well, […] The post The 100 years’ ‘Guernica’: Phoebe Maltz Bovy with the latest updates on an antizionist literary implosion appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Israel is at a crucial juncture after Iran fired more than 350 ballistic and cruise missiles at the Jewish state overnight on April 13, according to Israel’s ambassador to Canada. “We are facing one of the most critical moments in the history of the State of Israel when a country like Iran starts an attack […] The post Israel’s ambassador to Canada says his country faces critical decisions after a night of Iranian missile attacks—and urges Canada to list the IRGC as a terrorist group appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Air Canada cancelled a Saturday afternoon flight to Tel Aviv. The post Justin Trudeau and other politicians condemn Iran for its airborne attacks against Israel appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

“Greetings from the Seventh Zionist Congress to our friends in Toronto” reads the top message on this postcard sent from the 1905 Congress in Basel, the first held after the death of Theodor Herzl. The image was painted by Carl Josef Pollack and depicts Herzl standing among his fellow Jews awaiting entrance to the Land of […] The post Treasure Trove: A 1905 postcard from Basel recalls the many Zionist groups and supporters in Toronto appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

An Israeli grassroots group called Standing Together that believes that Jewish safety and Palestinian independence are intertwined and that peace deals must not uproot either Jews or Palestinians in Israel is making inroads in Canada. Four of Standing Together’s leaders toured North America in March and April, mostly in separate pairs, to meet with and […] The post Standing Together believes Jews and Palestinians can live in security and prosperity—and now the Israeli group is building support in Canada appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce is joining calls from Jewish parents and educators urging the Peel District School Board to reverse a decision to list Nakba Remembrance Day as an observance on the board’s calendar of significant days. Arabic for “catastrophe,” the Nakba refers to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, also known in Israel as […] The post Peel school board’s move to add ‘Nakba Remembrance Day’ to its calendar spurs objections from Jewish parents—and the Ontario education ministry appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

To his friends and family, Harry Davis was a nice guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly. But he was also a renowned Canadian boxer, boxing referee and international judge whose participation in the sport spanned 77 years. He died in Toronto on March 27 at age 97. As a boxer in the 1930s he was […] The post Obituary: Harry Davis, 97, a boxing referee who brought his gentle disposition to matches like George Foreman fighting five men at once in Toronto appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

“Could I really write about a Jewish restaurant given the current political turmoil?” So went the thought process of Guardian restaurant critic Jay Rayner. This is in his March 31 review of Freddie’s “a New York-style non-kosher Jewish deli” in Hampstead, London, England. As he explains, “this review almost didn’t happen.” Why? Was Freddie’s closed […] The post Act British, eat Yiddish? Phoebe Maltz Bovy defends eating deli food regardless of what Netanyahu’s up to appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more