Child protection officials in Quebec mishandled reports of child abuse within the fringe Jewish sect Lev Tahor, a provincial report said. In November 2013, about 250 Lev Tahor members fled the town of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, north of Montreal, to avoid a hearing in youth court. The group was facing allegations of child abuse and neglect from…
Cash-strapped B’nai Brith Canada is selling two of its landmark buildings in Toronto, including its national headquarters. The headquarters carries two mortgages totaling nearly $4 million, the Canadian Jewish News reported, and in 2012 the market value assessment was set at slightly more than $3 million. The difference leaves “open the question of how much…
It was a slap in the face to Canadian Jews by “anti-Semitic” legislators. Or maybe it was a procedural snafu in a ready-to-bolt-for-vacation Parliament. In any case, the motion to designate November as Jewish Heritage Month in Canada is dead in the water after fellow lawmakers [declined to support Liberal MP Irwin Cotler](http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Irwin-Cotler(1785 “declined to…
The Jewish National Fund of Canada has canceled a scheduled speech by U.S. presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. Huckabee, who is vying for the Republican bid in 2016, had his Oct. 15 speaking engagement in Ottawa canceled on June 10 following objections from the Canadian LGBTQ community, the Canadian Jewish News reported. An online petition at…
The yearly tally, released June 11, shows there were 1,627 reported anti-Semitic incidents in 2014, a 28 percent increase over the year before. The previous record was 1,345 incidents in 2012. Most cases last year – 84 percent or 1,370 incidents – involved harassment; there were 238 reported incidents of vandalism, or 15 percent of…
Canada’s state broadcaster said it dismissed a Jewish political show host on Tuesday after a media report alleged he had received commissions from art sales to big-name guests on his show, such as Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, in violation of company policy. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp, which fired another popular host last year…
MONTREAL (JTA) — Vladimir Katriuk, a native Ukrainian who avoided deportation from Canada for 64 years after hiding his Nazi past to move there, died peacefully in Quebec. Katriuk, who was 93, died on May 22, according to his lawyer. For years Katriuk was second on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of “most wanted” Nazi…
A gay film festival in Vancouver banned “overt expressions of nationalism” after organizers came under fire over an advertisement featuring an Israeli flag. The advertisement in last year’s guidebook for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, placed by the local gay Jewish group Yad b’Yad, featured a gay pride flag alongside an Israeli flag. That led…
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