Hamas thanked France, Canada and the UK for supporting them.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The safety of our community is under attack," CIJA said, "and so too are the values and way of life that define us as Canadians."
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc emphasizes Canada’s commitment to global counterterrorism efforts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This ill-considered endorsement of the ICC’s politically motivated actions is a slap in the face to our ally and to every innocent Israeli still being held hostage,” wrote Leo Housakos, a Quebec senator.
By David Isaac
Hassan Diab was convicted by a French court in 2023 for the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This should dispel the false perception that “shechita” does not abide by the highest standards of animal welfare,” says Kashruth Council of Canada.
By Dave Gordon
“When the Jewish community is being treated differently than other communities in Canada because of our religious beliefs, that is discrimination,” said Richard Rabkin, managing director of the Kashruth Council of Canada.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The decision was wrong and reeks of discrimination,” the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies stated of the initial ban.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This vile act shows us that Jew-hatred is alive and well in Canada,” according to Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“With a per capita GDP of roughly $3,500 and an average unemployment rate of 25 percent, the P.A. simply could not afford to pay for the salaries of terrorists without international assistance," said the Abraham Global Peace Initiative.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Toronto conference contains an impressive array of radicals from a variety of different, competing strains of Sunni Islam and Sunni Islamism,” according to Sam Westrop, director of Islamist Watch.
By COLlive.com
"Lulavs are for personal use only and must accompany the traveler at the time of entry into Canada. Commercial imports are not permitted,” the government website states.
Senior consultant to the Community Media Advocacy Centre Laith Marouf has a history of hate-filled social-media posts, including: “I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces or for entertaining Jewish white supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If El Al goes ahead with its plans, Canadians who want to travel to Israel will have to use Air Canada or fly out of the United States.
The Dec. 2 program included a talk by a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group in both Canada and the United States.
Michael Park, 32, was first arrested on Saturday after police responded to a report of an assault of a 33-year-old Jewish man.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Canada has previously withheld aid from the Palestinian Authority following its conduct of paying stipends to terrorists and their families.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A second Montreal kosher bakery target of attempted arson attack
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The release in 2018 of suspect Hassan Diab, faced opposition by civil-society groups in France, including pro-Israel organizations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish victims comprise some 50 percent of crimes in this category with Muslims at 10 percent, and Catholics and other religions at 3 percent each.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Ultimately, the IRGC is more dangerous than any of the groups listed, and constitutes a real and present danger to Iranian dissidents, the Jewish community and Canadians in general,” said B’nai Brith Canada.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Foodbenders, a Toronto health food restaurant, has lost business and is now facing legal action after using the hashtag “#zionistsnotwelcome” in social media posts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Canadian lawmaker Erin O’Toole, a member of Canada’s Conservative Party, also said he would expand relations with Israel.
Israeli scientists have found rare and benign tumor, called LCH, in a young dinosaur that roamed the plains of southern Alberta, Canada, over 60 million years ago.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspensions meant that the groups’ privileges were temporarily revoked, including reserving rooms, and putting up posters and tables around campus for other events.
By Eliana Rudee
Though tradition dictates that the honor be reserved for individuals who have been dead for at least three years, exceptions may be made.
The anti-Semitic motion caused further outrage as it became clear that a non-Jewish student who will also be on the trip to Israel and, like Wright, holds a role in the student union, was not threatened with sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Victims of Iranian-related terrorism will be getting more than $28 million following the sale of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto in accordance with a recent Canadian court decision.
By JNi.Media
Why haven't the PLO and Hamas permitted these three million or so people to turn their tent and shack cities into actual cities? Because if they do, it would mean they have given up the hope of returning to Israel.
Netanyahu approved their passage through Israel as an important humanitarian gesture.
By JNi.Media
The White Helmets have been the target of a disinformation campaign by Syrian and Russian regime propaganda outlets
Every Israeli official should be trained to response like Eli Cohen did to the BDS activist's lies.
By JNi.Media
“The most striking finding of the report is the remarkable consistency between the happiness of immigrants and the locally born.”
If Canada's Conservative party wins in 2019, Israel could win too.
It's not Islam. Really?
By JNi.Media
The trips inspire men to connect deeply with their Jewish heritage, and transform themselves, their families – and ultimately their communities and the wider world.
By JNi.Media
On Thursday afternoon, the same CFIA announced that it had not fully considered the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement.
By JNi.Media
According to CFIA, 'this is the first case in Canada brought before a provincial court related to the misrepresentation of a kosher food product.'
By JNi.Media
According to Diardio de Chiapas, Helbrans' group of about 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families entered Chiapas three weeks ago legally from Guatemala, after having been expelled.
By JNi.Media
The International Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstrations started in Tehran and about 900 other Iranian cities on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, IRNA reported. Quds Day was initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 to oppose Zionism and Israel, as well as Israel's unification of Jerusalem. It was conceived […]
Was the warning for the intention to destroy the State of Israel not taken seriously enough?
The security interest is equivalent to heilach, tendering payment of the debt, because it empowers the court to seize and sell the defendant’s land to cover the debt.
What it means to be a 'Bad Indian'.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu should meet US President Donald Trump as an equal when he goes to the White House.
By JNi.Media
The multidisciplinary exhibition is the first to focus on Chagall’s profound connection to music in his life and work.
The link between the Israeli and Chinese peoples is an ancient one, dating from the Jewish community in Kaifeng a thousand years ago.
By JNi.Media
A petition to "Stop Quebec Bill 59" says the bill "criminalizes criticism of Islam and anything considered an Islamic practice (Honor killings, honor rape, female genital mutilation, female oppression, and beating of wives and children)."
When you see injustice and lies on your college campuses, what do you do?
By JNi.Media
WAG is actually showing two Jewish artists who dabble in the surreal, Warkov and Marc Chagall.
By JNi.Media
The 223 newcomers include Jews from 17 US states and two Canadian provinces, former servicemen from three different US Armed Forces units, families of all sizes, and young professionals.
By JNi.Media
Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.
By JNi.Media
On Friday, Beth Israel hosted two prayer sessions for local Muslims and a potluck dinner.
The new Canadian government explicitly states that MIddle East relations will not be a "partisan issue."
One of the new immigrants is 83 years old, and five are volunteering to serve in the IDF.
Canada is buying Israeli Iron Dome radar that is able to detect rockets, artillery and mortars at long ranges, and can simultaneously engage a large number of targets. Ottawa's Dept. of National Defense awarded the contract to ELTA Systems, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI), and Rheinmetall-Canada. The radar system offers exceptional detection […]
Dore Gold pointed out to American Jewish Leaders that Israel and Sunni Muslims agree on Iran.
Minister Ze'ev Elkin will welcome 221 new immigrants from the United States and Canada at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday., one year after Operation Protective Edge. The flight, organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, the Jewish Agency and JNF-USA, will carry 32 families and 53 singles from […]
He also criticized Britain for boycotting Israel's defense expo; British diplomat claims UK "committed" to trade links with Israel.
Was the original CBC report, that Ottawa might target boycotters with hate crime charges, fueled by hate?
The Canadian government has expressed "zero tolerance" for boycotters of Israel.
Officials are not making any conclusions except to rule out that the tunnel is not a drug lab.
Visiting Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, "Canada doesn't stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it." Baird won a warm welcome in Jerusalem after Sunday's visit to his Palestinian Authority counterpart in Ramallah, where his car was pelted by eggs thrown by demonstrators waiting outside the Canadian offices in […]
The ICC is a political organization dependent on donor countries.
PA police stood by while Abbas' Fatah youth wing stood armed with eggs to throw at Baird.
Two RCMP were shot by an assailant...
There is concern that terrorists may try to attack the foreign embassies.
A Toronto synagogue issued a rare Shabbat appeal to help the family.
By JTA
A Canadian university professor was charged in Paris on Saturday in the deadly 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris that killed four and injured more than 40. The arraignment of Hassan Diab came hours after he arrived in Paris after being extradited from Canada following a six-year fight to prevent it. Canada’s Supreme Court last week […]
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Israel Will Buy, And Help Produce, American Jet Fighters; Will Sell Communications Equipment to Canada
The ”Lone Wolf” analysis does not make anyone feel safer .
Kerry still thinks Muslim terror in Israel is different from elsewhere.
The real news will be when the West wakes up before it won’t be able to wake up.
A Canadian soldier was injured after being shot on Canada's Parliament Hill.
American Jewish students are providing anti-Semites with their best weapon – fear.
He joined the ISIS after opening the Koran.
By JTA
Search warrants unsealed in Quebec allege that the Haredi Lev Tahor sect trafficked in human cargo and committed other abuses. The documents also reveal that Interpol and Israel helped build the criminal case against the group before its 250 members fled to Guatemala in March with leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. The list of charges in […]
By JTA
Mixing the Haredi Lev Tahor cult with a bunch of fiercely religious Roman Catholics is a recipe for dynamite.
The sect moved from Quebec to Ontario and now is scattered in the US and Israel but mostly in Guatemala.
Far from missiles and mortar shells, Canadian Israeli Philanthropist David Azrieli has passed away at the age of 92.
Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has banned a Muslim charity that officials believe has funnelled more than C$15 million (US $13.7 million) to Hamas. Lawyers for the International Relief Fund for Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN-Canada) slammed the decision, which now makes it a criminal offence “to knowingly deal in the property or […]
The student union of Ryerson University in Toronto voted to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel, but the university said it will ignore the non-binding decision. “The student union is a corporation independent of the university, we have to be clear there,” said Michael Forbes, a spokesperson for Ryerson and quoted […]
By JTA
A dozen Canadian border security officials raided the compound of the fringe Haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor Wednesday and arrested seven members believed to be in violation of immigration laws. Two families in the Lev Tahor community are at the center of an ongoing child custody case, including one family who fled to Guatemala, the […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel and Canada are jointly developing technologies for identifying the source of nuclear terror attacks.
By JTA
Irwin Cotler, a veteran human rights activist and member of Canada’s parliament, says being banned from Russia is an “honor.” When Russia issued its blacklist of 13 Canadians on Monday, Cotler was quick to express his pleasure at being included. ”I wear my exclusion from Russia as a badge of honor and am proud to […]
By JTA
An Ontario court has ordered the seizure of more than $7 million in assets belonging to Iran to compensate American victims of terror. The historic ruling last week brought to an end several lawsuits filed in Canada by terror victims from the United States seeking damages from Iran for training, arming and financing the Hamas […]
By JTA
Six children from the Haredi Lev Tahor sect who fled Canada will be allowed to remain in Guatemala with their parents, but with conditions, a Guatemalan family court judge ruled Tuesday. The Lev Tahor members from two families can stay in the Central American country, but they must check in with the Canadian embassy within […]
By JTA
Canada has formally recognized the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands. On Monday, Ottawa accepted a report tabled last year that called on the federal government to “officially recognize the experience of Jewish refugees who were displaced from states in the Middle East and North Africa after 1948.” The federal cabinet approved the report […]
You missed the boat if you wanted to pick up a nice little penthouse in Tel Aviv. An unidentified Canadian real estate tycoon picked up a seafront penthouse, stull under construction, for a paltry $31 million, Globes reported. The apartment is on the 20th and 21st floors and the balconies cover an area of 3,000 […]
Canada’s Employment minister Jason Kenney has countered the BDS ‘Boycott SodaStream” campaign by buying one of the company’s soda-making machines and crediting Oxfam for the idea. Oxfam has dumped Scarlett Johansson as an ambassador because she signed up to promote SodaStream whose 20 factories around the world include one in the industrial area of Maaleh […]
By JTA
An Ontario judge ruled Monday that children from a fringe Haredi sect whose members fled Quebec while the community was being investigated by social services should be returned to the province. The court upheld a Quebec order to place 13 children from the Lev Tahor sect into temporary foster care, The Canadian Press reported, but […]
"Our view on Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable."
A Canadian Jewish legislator lost out on an attempt for a “million dollar shot” with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a visit to the Western Wall (Kotel), Canadian media reported. Jewish Conservative Member of Parliament Mark Adler is looking ahead to next year’s election in his district where nearly 20 percent of the residents are […]
Israel should hire Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as its ambassador to the world.
Like him or not, Netanyahu is a master of making mincemeat of Arabs MKs who heckled Prime Minister Harper.
By JTA
Former Israeli ambassador to Canada Alan Baker and prominent Toronto lawyers have condemned an apparent discrepancy between Ottawa’s fervid public support for Israel and official policy. Baker, who served as Israel’s ambassador to Canada from 2004 to 2008, and six Toronto lawyers, have written to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird demanding the Foreign Affairs Department […]
Vivian Bercovici is a breath of fresh air and at least one envoy on whom the Netanyahu government can rely.
By JTA
The famous Girl Guides cookies now have the OU approval as being kosher thanks to an all-Orthodox troop in Canada, but their chocolate mint cookies still are on the forbidden list. All Girl Scout cookies in the United States have been kosher for at least 20 years, said organization spokesman Stewart Goodbody. When the 31 […]
By JTA
Israel is the sixth favorite country of American citizens and Saudi Arabia is their least favorite among allies, according to a Pew Research Center survey carried out in November and released this week. The Jewish state was viewed favorably by 61 percent of Americans and was sixth behind Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and […]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a speech to the Knesset during his visit to Israel next month, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein announced Wednesday. Harper will lead an entourage of approximately 200 politicians, businessmen and journalists towards late January. ‘”I am happy and proud to host the prime minister of Canada, a courageous and […]
By JTA
Canadian immigration officials this week ordered a former leader of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary out of the country prior to a speaking engagement in Montreal. Csanad Szegedi was sent back to Budapest on a plane just before he was slated to address a Chabad group. Approximately 200 people who came out to hear […]