Jewish Articles
Slaying not hate crime, judge says
February 17, 2005
Man sentenced to at least 15 years after guilty plea in murder of Orthodox Jew
Six websites fomenting hatred and encouraging suicide bombing are pulled
February 14, 2005
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Toronto-based centre said six Web sites that fomented hatred against Jews or advocated terrorism or suicide-bombing have been pulled by the host in Kelowna, B.C., and an Investigation is going on.
Was killer truly motivated by hate?
February 10, 2005
"As appalling as it was, the killing of David Rosenzweig has never sounded or seemed to me to be what is generally understood as a hate crime," writes Jim Coyle for the Toronto Star.
Killing linked to hate against Jews
February 08, 2005
A Toronto murder that captured headlines around the world nearly three years ago after being described as a "hate crime" against Jews was resolved quietly in a courtroom yesterday (Feb.7).
Sacred sights
February 03, 2005
Robert Burley, director of Ryerson's master's program in Photographic Preservation & Collections Management, straddles the line between documentary and art with his collection of photographs of Toronto synagogues 'that were - and still are - so important to the Jewish community,' Julia Dault repo...
Quebec boosts Jewish schools
January 16, 2005
The Quebec government's controversial decision to fully subsidize private Jewish schools will be extended to other private religious and ethnic schools if they meet the necessary requirements, Education Minister Pierre Reid says.
Kabbalah leader's Holocaust 'slur'
January 14, 2005
Eliyahu Yardeni, of the London Kabbalah Centre, made the astonishing claim to an undercover reporter investigating high-pressure sales techniques employed by the group, which promotes its own brand of beliefs, part ancient Jewish mysticism and part pseudo-science. The film also revealed how Kabba...
Madonna\'s Kabbalah Centre in Holocaust row
January 13, 2005
In a documentary film BBC recently aired, a senior figure is seen saying that Jews died in the Holocaust because they did not follow the sect. The documentary is about a branch of Kabbalah, the mystical form of Judaism that counts pop idol Madonna among its devotees, filmed by a few undercover re...
Liberal rabbis welcome same-sex marriage ruling
December 24, 2004
Reactions in Jewish circles were predictably mixed to the decision on same-sex marriage by the Supreme Court of Canada, Ron Scillag, a reporter with The Canadian Jewish News, writes. Liberal rabbis joined liberal clergy from other faiths to praise the court
A close look at the library bomber
December 17, 2004
The boy who bombed and destroyed the library of a Jewish school in Montreal last April apologized in court and asked Jewish community for forgiveness for his mistake. In a letter presented in court on Thursday (Dec. 16), he stated, 
