Toronto couple to be honoured by NCSY
TORONTO — David Woolf remembers being 21 years old and taking a job, along with his wife, Fran, teaching Jewish studies and Hebrew at the Talmud Torah in Windsor, Ont., where he was doing an MBA.
GUEST VOICE: My grandmother’s return to Auschwitz
TORONTO — My grandmother, Holocaust survivor Miriam Ziegler, is busily preparing for a trip to a place she never thought she would go again.
On Jan. 27, she’s returning to Auschwitz, joining more than 100 fellow survivors for the 70th anniversary of their liberation. She will also be reunited with five of the 13 children who were photographed by a Soviet photographer as the Russian soldiers approached to give them their freedom.
No imminent threat, but Jewish institutions remain alert after Paris
Staff at Canadian Jewish institutions – synagogues, schools and community centres – are being asked to be more vigilant in light of the recent terror attacks in Paris that included the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket.
Adam Cohen, the Israeli-born, Montreal-based national director of security at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), said that although there isn’t anything to suggest an attack on Canadian Jewish institutions is imminent, world events like these can lead to copycat attacks.
