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Jew vs. Jew vs. Jew: Joe Oliver, Canada’s former finance minister, lost the bid for the Ontario PC nomination in Toronto’s York Centre riding to newbie and political young’un Roman Baber, a 36-year-old Russian Jew who came to Canada as a teenager via Israel. Baber will go up against Liberal Monte Kwinter – also a Yid – to win the seat in next year’s provincial election.
B’nai Brith Canada writer Sara McCleary, a resident of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., wrote an account on the organization’s website about having walked out of her home on the morning of Jan. 14 and finding a swastika and accompanying slur drawn in the snow on her front yard.
Rabbi Lee Buckman, CHAT Tanenbaum’s head of school since 2013, has announced he’ll be leaving the post in August and making aliyah with his wife. Jonathan Levy, formerly the principal at the school’s Kimel campus in Vaughan and currently the principal at the Wallenberg campus, will take over the role in September 2017.
Democratic representative Steve Cohen is the latest to join a growing list of Democrats (and members of the Tribe) who’ve said they will boycott Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration ceremony. Cohen said his decision was made in support of civil rights icon John Lewis, with whom the president-elect verbally sparred with, and referenced what he said were Trump’s “un-presidential remarks.”
Go figure. A Neo-Nazi blogger in New York who talked about killing Jews and is considered one of the most influential figures in the alt-right movement, has been outed for having a Jewish wife.
British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart will perform in Tel Aviv this spring, promoting his album Another Country.
