In Canada especially, faith groups play large role in refugee settlement
Faith communities in Canada tend to play a larger role in resettling refugees than they do in many other countries, according to Globe and Mail international affairs columnist Doug Saunders
Winnipeg synagogue sponsors two Yazidi families
Congregants from Shaarey Zedek have joined Operation Ezra, a Jewish community-wide effort to bring endangered Yazidi families to Winnipeg
Refugee work heralds new era of shul-driven social action
With potential sponsors coming together pell-mell across Canada, shuls are well placed to be the forums where community activists find each other
Toronto Jewish day school to sponsor refugees
While there are a number of Jewish congregations in Toronto that have initiated the sponsorship of Syrian refugees, Paul Penna is the city’s only Jewish day school to do so
Vancouver Jews rally to help Syrian refugees
Fundraising efforts are well underway to bring refugee families to British Columbia in early 2016
Congregations prepare to welcome Syrian refugees
As a wave of Syrian refugees begins to enter Canada, two Jewish groups – one in the GTA and another in Ottawa – are waiting for word that their sponsored families will be arriving in Canada soon
Some Jewish refugees to the U.S. really were Nazis
Much has been written about whether Syrian refugees today bear similarities to the Jews who sought refuge from Nazi Europe
What Americans had to say about Jewish war refugees
Here’s a snapshot of what Americans were saying about Jews as they sought to escape Hitler’s rule for refuge in the United States
Post-1948 Jewish refugees ignored, community event told
The world knows all about the estimated 600,000 Arab refugees that resulted from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence; by contrast, how many are aware that 850,000 Jews were expelled from or fled Arab lands in the Middle East and North Africa during Israel’s tumultuous birth?
Are Syrian refugees comparable to Jews fleeing the Nazis?
Interestingly, both the voices that don’t want to see Canada take in Syrian refugees and the voices that consider resettling the refugees to be Canada’s moral duty have invoked the plight of Jewish refugees who were driven out of Hitler’s Europe
