Ron Csillag
By Ron Csillag
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Fast Forward 7 Swastikas Scrawled Near University of Toronto
TORONTO — Swastikas were found at seven sites on and near the campus of Canada’s largest university in what appears to be two separate anti-Semitic incidents. The first three swastikas near the University of Toronto’s downtown campus were discovered late last month. Just before Yom Kippur last week, two more were discovered on a mural. Two days later, another…
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Fast Forward Canadian University Wants To Fire Tenured Professor over Anti-Semitic Posts
TORONTO — A Canadian university has suspended a professor for promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and denying the Holocaust. The University of Lethbridge in Alberta announced late Wednesday that Prof. Anthony Hall has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of an internal investigation into possible violations of Canada’s Human Rights Act. The statement said Hall…
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Fast Forward Israeli Pro-BDS Activist Seeks Political Asylum in Canada
TORONTO — An Israeli activist who supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has claimed refugee status in Canada. Gilad Paz, 34, landed at Montreal International Airport on Aug. 11 after traveling from Tel Aviv and requested political asylum. He reportedly told a Canadian asylum officer that he is a BDS and human rights…
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Fast Forward Head of Green Party in Canada May Resign Over Vote to Support BDS
TORONTO — The leader of Canada’s Green Party is pondering resigning after members voted to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. In an interview Tuesday with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Elizabeth May said she is “struggling with the question of whether I should continue as leader or not, quite honestly,” in the…
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Fast Forward Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Is One of Israel’s Strongest Backers — But Why?
(JTA) — It took seven years, but one of Israel’s staunchest allies among world leaders will be making his maiden voyage to the Jewish state on Sunday. In announcing the trip last month at a Jewish National Fund dinner, where he was being honored, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Israel “a light of freedom…
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Food Girl Scout Cookies in Canada Go Kosher
JTA — Most Girl Guide cookies have been certified kosher in Canada following the efforts of an all-Orthodox troop. When the 31 Jewish girls established the 613th Thornhill Pathfinder Unit in Thornhill, Ontario, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Toronto, the first question member Sara Silverman asked was, “When do we start selling cookies?” according…
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Fast Forward Montreal Jewish Population Steady Amid Tensions Over Quebec Separatism and Proposed Kippah Ban
(JTA) — Battered and bruised by decades of separatist governments, restrictive language laws and a modern-day exodus, the Jewish community of Quebec may finally have something to celebrate. A new analysis of figures culled from the 2011 Canadian census, known as the National Household Survey, found that Quebec’s Jewish population had not dipped below the…
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