Sheldon Gordon
By Sheldon Gordon
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News Canadian Philanthropist Focusing Efforts on Darfur
TORONTO — While Jewish groups in the United States and Canada have taken the lead in urging international intervention in order to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, one Israeli-Canadian isn’t waiting for governments to act. Toronto-based philanthropist Walter Arbib has arranged for a shipment of $400,000 worth of antibiotics and other…
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News Book Offers New Image of Canadian Pol
MONTREAL — A new biography asserts that former Canadian prime minister Pierre E. Trudeau — long viewed as a defender of civil rights and as a friend of the Jewish community — was a fascist sympathizer in his youth and shared the antisemitic attitudes prevalent in the 1930s and early ’40s. The revelations, contained in…
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News Billboards Focus on Jewish Domestic Violence
TORONTO — A Canadian Jewish organization initiated a Passover-timed billboard campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence, with the theme “There is a Jewish woman you know being abused.” Three 10-by-20-foot billboards, carrying that message beside an image of a distressed woman with a black eye, were strategically placed along Bathurst Street, the main thoroughfare…
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News University Under Fire for Holiday Policy
TORONTO — A York University professor has lodged a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, alleging that the school discriminates against non-Jewish students because it cancels classes for three days annually during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. David Noble, a Jewish professor at York, filed the human rights complaint with the quasi-judicial commission after…
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News Jewish Canadians, Loyal Liberals, Lose Insider Status
TORONTO — In Canada’s recent federal election, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper campaigned for Jewish votes as a staunch supporter of Israel, but the 300,000-strong Jewish community stayed loyal to the ruling Liberal Party. Harper won the election anyway, and he is forming a minority government without having a single Jewish Parliament member on his…
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News Columnist Takes Heat for Mideast Views
TORONTO—When Canadian Friends of Peace Now awarded columnist Shira Herzog its first annual Journalism Peace Prize last week, it reinforced a remarkable makeover of her image in Canada’s Jewish community. Herzog, who won the award from the Jewish peace group for her monthly columns on the Middle East in the Globe and Mail newspaper, was…
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News Muslim Group Slams Appointment of Canadian Jews
TORONTO — The Canadian Islamic Congress is criticizing the appointment of two prominent Jewish men to important federal posts, describing them as “bad news” for Muslims. The Islamic Congress, the most prominent organization claiming to represent Canada’s 750,000-person Muslim community, is objecting to the appointments of Leo Kolber, 76, and Jonathan Schneiderman, 43. Kolber, a…
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News Lawyer Slammed Over Jewish Conspiracy Claims
MONTREAL — The Quebec Bar is mulling disciplinary action against a prominent lawyer who argued before the country’s Supreme Court that Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler was part of a Jewish conspiracy to have his client deported. Guy Bertrand, a lawyer in Quebec City, was representing a Rwandan political exile, Léon Mugesera, whom the Canadian…
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