An article in an Ontario newspaper suggesting that Jews care only about Jews and are indifferent to the suffering of others rankled the local community. “It was a shameful, shoddy piece of journalism,” Bernie Farber, director of community relations for the Canadian Jewish Congress, said of the article published in the Hamilton Spectator.
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