Putin delivers false history at Yad Vashem event
The Russian president’s claim that 40 per cent of Jewish Holocaust victims were from the Soviet Union is absurd, historians said.
Netanyahu to meet Putin in Moscow five days before election
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow, five days before Israel’s national elections.
Cotler applauds sanctions against Russia
Former federal justice minister Irwin Cotler applauded the Canadian government’s decision to follow the lead of the United States and the European Union by introducing targeted sanctions against Russian officials connected to the annexation of Crimea and that country’s political and military interference in Ukraine.
Your Daily Spiel for August 29
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks will host a five-part series on morality for the BBC, three Canadians took part in the Kippah March in Berlin recently; and first look photos from Matthew Weiner’s The Romanoffs have been released.
Chief rabbi discusses Jewish life in Vladimir Putin’s Russia during Canadian tour
Jewish life in Russia is flourishing and that “rebirth” can be attributed largely to President Vladimir Putin, said Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chabad-Lubavitch’s head emissary to the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Putin’s ‘No. 1 enemy’ urges G7 to sanction Russian officials
Bill Browder, who amassed billions of dollars in an investment fund in Russia in the early 1990s, is on a relentless mission to expose the Russian president as, not only corrupt, but having blood on his hands.
Your daily spiel for Thursday, April 6
In today’s spiel: More Jews skipping town for Passover, Putin scolds Netanyahu, “weed lube” creator worked for father of Jewish Renewal movement and Seth Rogan bringing Invincible comic to big screen.
