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• Canadian remembers Rwandan genocide

  April 15, 2004 9:00am

  A Canadian Jew and Africa expert, who founded an organization to commemorate the Rwandan genocide, says the international community failed to enforce its pledge of ´never again.´

• Rosh Hashanah in Kenya

  September 30, 2003 9:00am

  The diverse group of Jews who gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to celebrate the Jewish new year last weekend did so without incident, thanks to checkpoints and guards who monitored a community accustomed to threats of terror and crime.

• Idi Amin and Israel

  August 20, 2003 9:00am

  African strongman Idi Amin, who recently died in Saudi Arabia, was embraced and then reviled by Israel during his military career and his murderous eight-year reign at Uganda’s helm. Amin was also hated by Ugandan Jews, some of whom were beaten and impris