The City of Ottawa is reversing a decision it had made to cancel a ceremony for an Israeli flag raising at city hall on Yom ha-Atzmaut on May 14. The ceremony had initially been cancelled over security concerns but in the meantime a group of Ottawa Jewish residents planned to hold a rally at city […] The post Ottawa city hall reversed its decision to cancel a Yom ha-Atzmaut flag-raising ceremony in response to objections from Jewish residents—who also organized their own rally for Israel Independence Day appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Ottawa hears about the realities of the past academic year. The post Canadian university students told a parliamentary committee about antisemitism on campus—and a failure by schools to act appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Dina Goldstein received conflicting accounts of the last-minute decision by the gallery. The post Vancouver artist who subverts Barbie and Ken claims antisemitism is behind her removal from a group exhibition appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

A rally organized by Canadian Women Against Antisemitism at Toronto’s Earl Bales Park on Sunday, May 5, focused on some recent student experiences. Deidre Butler, the director of the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, made a point of flying in to speak for four minutes. “Students have […] The post Carleton university professor Deidre Butler flew to Toronto to proclaim her solidarity with the students speaking out against antisemitism appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

A leading Canadian Jewish organization says high levels of anti-Jew hatred in Canada were present before Oct. 7—and have skyrocketed since the Hamas attacks on Israel and Gaza war.  Now at record heights of antisemitic incidents across the country, B’nai Brith Canada says of its annual audit, the organization logged more than double the number […] The post 2023 was an ‘off the chart’ year for antisemitism in Canada, according to the annual audit released by B’nai Brith on Yom HaShoah appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

The young people are having a party and we’re not invited. You can read all about it in a recent New York Times story, “It’s Not Just Gaza: Student Protesters See Links to a Global Struggle” (Subheading: “In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of […] The post Looking at those kids on the lawn: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new ‘youth’ movement on display in campus protests across North America appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Dear March of the Living participants, Thank you for your courage to be part of this year’s March of the Living. In a way you are doing a mitzvah (fulfilling a commandment) to ”be strong and be strengthened”. As a Holocaust survivor, witnessing the scene of Oct. 7 was the most difficult and most horrible […] The post A letter from Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger to the 2024 participants in the March of the Living trip that takes young Canadians from Poland to Israel appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

This is a piece of broken glass from the Neue (New) Synagogue in Berlin. I am lucky that the Stasi, the state security service of East Germany, did not arrest me when I got it. It was the summer of 1982 and I went to Berlin while backpacking through Europe. The city was then divided with West Berlin being […] The post Treasure Trove: A shard of glass from an East Berlin synagogue recalls the destruction of a Jewish community appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) announced on Wednesday, May 1, that it had arrested a 44-year-old woman, who, during a rally on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery the previous week, praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel—and referred to several terrorist organizations as heroes. The VPD’s Major Crime Section launched an investigation […] The post Vancouver police made an arrest based on a viral video of a woman praising terrorists—a few days before she was spotted at the encampment at UBC appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more

Demonstrators were allowed to remain overnight if the scene is peaceful. The post University of Toronto woke up to an encampment that’s joined the wave of anti-Israel protests in Canada appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News ..read more