Canada

Kosher food becomes a BDS flashpoint on a Toronto college campus

A Jewish campus group said a change to the student union’s BDS policy would make it even harder to distribute kosher food on campus.

University of Toronto student union walks back BDS resolution that had called for a ban on kosher foods

An earlier resolution said groups should try to get kosher food from institutions that do not “normalize Israeli apartheid.”

97-year-old former member of Nazi death squad dies at home in Canada

Helmut Oberlander, who served as a translator for a Nazi unit that killed tens of thousands of Jews, was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and faced deportation.

Magazine cover of multiple skin tones blowing a shofar

Lifestyle

Canadian Jewish News restarts, again, eyeing a younger audience

Part of the permanent exhibition of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. (The University of South Carolina)

United States

University of South Carolina to open Anne Frank Center

Obituaries

Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi behind a Canadian week dedicated to kindness, dies at 77

Global

Canadian-Jewish politician Annamie Paul narrowly survives Israel-fueled leadership challenge

Global

Nearly half of violent antisemitic incidents in Canada were COVID related, watchdog reports

Global

Canada places Proud Boys on terror list

Global

Longtime human rights activist Irwin Cotler named as Canada’s first envoy in anti-Semitism fight

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