Sheldon Gordon
By Sheldon Gordon
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News Sighs of Relief Greet Quebec Separatists’ Defeat
MONTREAL — As they observed Passover last week, many members of Montreal’s 100,000-strong Jewish community were also celebrating what some called a liberation of another sort: the defeat in provincial elections of the nationalist Parti Quebecois, which had been trying since 1994 to promote Quebec’s secession from Canada. The Parti Quebecois, or PQ, was ousted…
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News Jewish Organizations Try To Block Al Jazeera in Canada
TORONTO — Jewish groups are fighting to keep the Al-Jazeera television network off the air in Canada. Calling the Qatar-based network “antisemitic,” the Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai Brith Canada are opposing efforts by an association of the country’s largest cable companies to broadcast Al-Jazeera. The Canadian Cable Television Association applied earlier this month to…
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News Mideast Tensions Rile Toronto Campus
York University, a suburban Toronto campus with Canada’s largest concentration of Jewish students, is reeling from the “Concordia virus” — the spread of tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students that previously infected Montreal’s Concordia University. Last week, Toronto police briefly arrested, but did not charge, a Jewish student for allegedly uttering a death threat after…
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News Holocaust Denier Demands Refugee Status
TORONTO — The Canadian government is likely to thwart a bid for refugee status by Ernst Zundel, a notorious Holocaust denier who was deported from the United States to Canada last week and is being held in a Niagara Falls, Ontario, detention center. The German-born Zundel, who lived in Canada for more than 40 years…
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News Israeli, Arab Colleges Unite To Protest Canada Aid Cut
MONTREAL — The presidents of universities in Israel, Jordan and the West Bank have joined in an unusual joint appeal to Canada’s foreign aid agency to preserve funding for a McGill University program that brings together Arab and Israeli social work students, training them to be “peace ambassadors” in their homelands. The survival of the…
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