Bernie M. Farber

Bernie M. Farber is the former CEO of Canadian Jewish Congress. He is a writer, social justice consultant and columnist with the Canadian Jewish News.

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This Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Replace Numbers With Names

In Jewish teachings we learn, “from generation unto generation we shall remember.” We Jews are blessed with a long memory. It is precisely our memory that today acts as the “canary in the coal mine” against the evil of mankind. It is this memory that has led Jews and Jewish organizations to be that canary…

By Bernie M. Farber Jan 22, 2018 | 3 min read

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