Treasure Trove remembers how Jewish Canadians reached out to rebuild poor neighbourhoods in Israel
Project Renewal involved twinning with communities in need of support.
Tensions escalated at Toronto’s weekly pro-Israel rally—but similar events stay calmer elsewhere
What began with a few flag-waving friends is now a Sunday brunch circus.
Letter from Israel: Reflections of a year living under the threat of missiles
Aron Heller is a freelance contributor to The CJN in our ongoing series of dispatches from Canadians experiencing Israel at wartime. With all the trauma and turmoil that has engulfed this country after more than a year of war, it seems almost trivial to describe the plight of daily life in central Israel under the […]
Numerous memorial projects planned in memory of the Canadian-Israelis killed on Oct. 7
Nearly one year after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel that left 1,200 Israelis dead, multiple memorial projects—from a peacemaking prize and scholarships to musical compositions, books and documentaries, are commemorating the lives of the Israeli-Canadians killed in the attacks.
Joel Sacke, 88, assaulted at Toronto’s weekly rally for Israel, vows to return Sunday
‘We’re there and we will be there and we will continue to be there.’
A common enemy is creating unity between Jewish and Iranian communities in Canada
Go to almost any pro-Israel rally held in Toronto in the past 10 months, and alongside the Canadian and Israeli flags, you’ll see the crowd dotted with lion and sun flags. These flags were the symbol of Iran before its Islamic Revolution in 1979, and are still used by Iranians who want to topple the […]
Israeli father uses his daughter’s experiences with cancer to help other families
Fifteen years ago, Oded Grinstein’s infant daughter Shani was diagnosed with a rare cancer. The doctors in Israel were world-class, and the facilities were state-of-the-art, but there was a lack of experience within the medical system for dealing with this particular cancer. Grinstein and his wife found a doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center […]
Canadian youth summer trips return from Israel early, as tensions escalate in the region
A chartered plane carrying 250 North American participants of summer Israel trips landed in Toronto overnight Aug. 7, after organizers ended trips early on rising concerns over security and commercial airlines cancelling flights. The chartered flight was delayed for days, however, while summer program staff worked around logistical problems, including a hurricane pounding the U.S. […]
Treasure Trove is cheering for Israel’s soccer team at the Paris Olympics
The Paris Olympics open on Friday, July 26. For the first time since the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Israel will compete in the Olympic soccer tournament (the team’s first game is against Mali on July 24). Soccer (known as football outside North America) was introduced to Israel in the 1910s and was popularized by the British during […]
University of British Columbia’s senate defeated a motion to cut ties with Israeli universities
By a vote of 49 to 16, the Vancouver Senate of the University of British Columbia rejected a motion put forward June 3 at a special meeting—the first held at the school during the 2023-24 academic year—to cut or suspend ties with Israeli government entities, including public universities, after discussing the issue for 90 minutes. […]
