Sheldon Gordon
By Sheldon Gordon
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News Jewish Woman Named to Canadian High Court
TORONTO — Rosalie Abella, a flamboyant legal trailblazer who at age 29 was appointed Canada’s first Jewish female judge, has now become the first Jewish female named to the Supreme Court of Canada. Abella, who was promoted last month from the Ontario Court of Appeal, has “strong credentials,” said Lorraine Weinrib, a University of Toronto…
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News Convicted of Kidnapping, Rabbi Faces Deportation
MONTREAL — A rabbi who served two years in prison for kidnapping is fighting to retain refugee status in Canada, claiming that he has a “well-founded fear of persecution” if forced to return to Israel. In 1994 an American court in Brooklyn, N.Y., convicted Rabbi Erez Shlomo Elbarnes, 41, for kidnapping a 13-year-old boy. The…
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News Canadians Raise Security After Wave of Antisemitic Vandalism
TORONTO — Canadian Jewish leaders are seeking federal and provincial government support to help offset dramatically rising security expenses burdening the Jewish community. The demand comes amid what is arguably the worst spate of antisemitic vandalism ever seen in Canada. A firebombing destroyed the library at United Talmud Torah school in Montreal on the eve…
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News Quebec Sephardim Make Breakthroughs
MONTREAL — The Sephardic population of Quebec is beginning to make major inroads in the Jewish communal power structure, after insisting for decades that they were treated as “poor relations” by the dominant English-speaking Ashkenazim in the province. The French-speaking Sephardim, who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East in the 1960s, account for…
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News Head of New Canadian Council To Organize Grassroots Efforts
TORONTO — One of the senior staffers at a Canadian Jewish agency refers to Hershell Ezrin as “Super Jew.” That’s because the 57-year-old, Toronto-born Ezrin holds a position of unprecedented bureaucratic power in the Jewish community, having last month been appointed chief executive officer of the newly created Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy….
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News A Mother’s Legacy Endures As Montreal Theater Looks to the Future
MONTREAL — With the death of Dora Wasserman in December at age 84, the Yiddish Theatre here lost its matriarch, the creative force who founded it half a century ago and sustained it as the only North American Yiddish theater in permanent residence. But it did not lose its raison d’être. Just ask Bryna Wasserman,…
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News Canada’s Court Weighs Religious Freedom
MONTREAL — The Supreme Court of Canada heard an appeal this week by a group of seven condominium owners who contend that they have a constitutional right to build makeshift huts on their balconies in celebration of the autumn festival of Sukkot. Julius Grey, a constitutional lawyer representing the group of Orthodox Jews, argued at…
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News Envoy Under Fire for Discussing Terror Suspect’s Trial
OTTAWA — The Israeli ambassador to Canada came under fire last week after publicly disclosing that a Hamas official had allegedly tried to recruit a Canadian citizen of Palestinian origin to assist in terrorist attacks in North America. The Canadian Foreign Ministry called in Israeli Ambassador Chaim Divon to protest comments he made about Israel’s…
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