COR ordered to pay after firing mashgiach for allegedly dating non-Jew
The Kashruth Council of Canada has been ordered to pay a former mashgiach, after it fired him for dating a non-Jewish woman.
Rabbi brings spiritual healing to Jewish inmates
Rabbi Michael Csillag, the founder of Jewish Services of Canada, visits Jewish inmates in Ontario prisons every week. For him, a Jew who’s in jail is still a Jew.
Anti-poverty activist laments the loss of Ontario’s basic income program
Anger, tempered by Jewish values, drive anti-poverty activist Laura Cattari, and both attributes have been exercised heavily in recent weeks, as her movement has gained an important federal victory and suffered a heart-breaking provincial betrayal.
First Jewish wedding in 50 years to be held in Chatham, Ont.
In 2002, The CJN published a story about the fading Jewish community in Chatham, a small city in southwestern Ontario. Yet, on Aug. 4, the first Jewish wedding to take place in the city in about 50 years will be celebrated.
The skinny on Ontario’s sex-ed fiasco
“A child who understands the mechanics and risks of diverse sexual practices can make better decisions about his or her own sexuality now and in the future, while respecting the realities of those around them who may find satisfaction in relationships not to their fancy.”
From Soviet Russia to Ontario’s legislature
Newly-elected MPP Andrea Khanjin’s story sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie.
Niagara shul hopes to sell ‘destination simchas’ to city dwellers
Dubbed Destination Simcha, the initiative by Congregation B’nai Israel in St. Catharines, Ont., aims to sell the small Conservative congregation’s 93-year-old sanctuary in the heart of wine country as an alternative to high-priced and busy Toronto venues, for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and other celebrations.
My generation’s political apathy
Students often get involved in school politics – running for class president, organizing parties – but seem unable, or unwilling, to become politically engaged more broadly.
From the Archives: Ontario Votes
Harry Moscoe, returning officer for the Timiskaming district stands with stenographer Olga Zebruk on the eve of the election, Kirkland Lake, Ont. ca. 1951. Timiskaming was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1999. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, item 823.
Ontario Tories win big in ridings with large Jewish populations
There will be at least two Jewish MPPs, both on the government benches, following the Progressive Conservative wave that washed over Ontario in the June 7 provincial election.
