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canadian
Quebec official: Rosh Hashanah election date not discriminatory
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2013
A Canadian government minister who said the Jewish community receives “privileged treatment” denied that a 2016 election scheduled for Rosh Hashanah discriminates against Jews.
Lebanese Canadian accused of planning attack on Israel
Jewish Journal
July 7, 2011
A Canadian citizen who once lived in Michigan is accused of planning to travel to Israel to detonate a bomb on behalf of Hezbollah.
‘Who is a Jew’ crisis moves into aliyah sphere
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2011
Thomas Dohlan, who converted to Judaism in an Orthodox Canadian beit din, never anticipated that Israel’s Interior Ministry might question his Jewishness and block his bid to make aliyah. But that’s what is happening because of what appears to be a new policy that gives Israel’s Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate, and not the Interior Ministry, the ultimate authority to decide which Orthodox converts are kosher enough for immigration purposes.
Canadian exam question creates anti-Israel feel, group alleges
Jewish Journal
June 9, 2010
A question on a provincial exam for 12th-graders in Manitoba will promote anti-Israel sentiment, B\’nai Brith Canada says.\n
VIDEO: Canadian PM Stephen Harper speaks at a celebration marking the 60th Anniversary of Israel
Jewish Journal
May 18, 2008
Singles – Soulmate Surfing
Melanie Herschorn
June 1, 2006
Dating can be scary. Dating in a foreign country can be petrifying.
Shlub to Hero: Film Sketches Gehry Life
Morris Newman
May 18, 2006
Gehry\’s creative solution — his psychoanalytic victory — was to embrace the delight of free-form design, while making sure that his buildings met the needs of his clients. His freedom in designing what appear to be purely sculptural objects that subsequently win rapturous praise must make him the envy of all architects who secretly wish they could find such willing clients.
Native Son
J. D. Smith
June 6, 2002
A few months ago, I wrote a story in these pages about my experiences as a Jewish Big Brother. As Paul Harvey says, here\’s \”The Rest of the Story.\”
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