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HRC which has a staff of seven (including Fegelman), has grown exponentially. “When we started in 2003, we had only a few dozen subscribers. That has since grown to over 56,000 subscribers,” Fegelman said. “We want to create a digital army for Israel.” thej.ca/2023/07/13/hon…

"Dr. Ashrafi obviously, had never once thought about the Jewish kids playing sports who were the victims of this, and of the example this sets. Since the perpetrators were in Grades 9 and 10, they still have years of interscholastic sports ahead of them" thej.ca/2023/06/29/bna…

This week in TheJ.ca: There's a cover-up of an antisemitic outburst at a Winnipeg high school basketball game- we have new details Will @bnaibrithcanada get to the bottom of it and ask @HStefansonMB @obbykhan60 to protect Jewish students? thej.ca/2023/06/29/bna…

JNS is beginning a weekly listing of antisemitic incidents recorded nationally by Jewish, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, as well as various news media. By @ADL count, an average of 7 such instances of varying measures occur daily in the US. thej.ca/2023/05/03/ant…

"Nakba" was coined by Constantin Zureiq, a Lebanese prof. of history at American U. in Beirut, in '48. He used it in the context of Arabs bringing disaster upon THEMSELVES, by starting a war with Israel. It's been misused to malign Israel, ever since.

DeSantis was very clear that he supported a united Jerusalem as the country’s capital, noting that he had spoken about this in Congress, including holding a hearing in 2017. "US policy should recognize the truth,” DeSantis said. thej.ca/2023/05/03/flo…

"Saudi officials have made a number of public statements expressing support for normalization with Israel, and there have been reports of behind-the-scenes cooperation on issues like security and intelligence sharing." thej.ca/2023/05/03/the…

Prof. Shauli Lev-Ran, an addiction psychiatrist of the Israel Center on Addiction, says overdoses are not diagnosed as they are in the US and that pathologists register deaths as due to respiratory depression or cardiac arrest rather than a drug overdose. thej.ca/2023/05/03/isr…

"Its goal is to depict Miep as she was, an ordinary person, who never thought of herself as a heroine either during the terrible years of the war, or later, when she was showered with awards and adulation after her story became widely known." thej.ca/2023/05/03/mie…

I Experienced Antisemitism in College; I Won’t Be Silenced Again algemeiner.com/2023/05/03/i-e…

We are a Jewish civil rights movement that takes action to strengthen our community for generations to come. It’s time to empower yourself so you feel confident and proud when combatting Jew-hatred. Spread awareness and stand up for your community at endjewhatred.com

The 19 shelters that Na’amat Canada Calgary will be assisting have requested 1008 backpacks. The cost to fill these backpacks will be over $37,000, the most the SSFK program has had to raise since its inception 26 years ago. thej.ca/2023/05/03/naa…

In March 2015, #Winnipeg Jews launched “Operation Ezra” to raise awareness about #Yazidi suffering in the Middle East, and to sponsor a Yazidi refugee family coming to Winnipeg, according to the @jewishwinnipeg website. thej.ca/2023/05/03/in-…

"The Albanians not only protected their Jewish citizens, but also provided sanctuary to Jewish refugees who had arrived in Albania when it was still under Italian rule. the Albanians (competed) with each other for the privilege of saving Jews." thej.ca/2023/05/03/alb…

@Hussen praised Jewish Canadians for “important roles in advancing medicine and the sciences, human rights, philanthropy, media, arts, and business.” He also noted that Canada is the “proud home” of 400,000 Jews, the fourth-largest community in the world. thej.ca/2023/05/03/can…

“The siren that pierced the silence right now, making its way from one end of the land to the next, rattles our souls and makes way for remembrance, which overwhelms us with silence,” said President @Isaac_Herzog at the Western Wall memorial ceremony. thej.ca/2023/05/01/leo…

Foreseeable security problems at the panel remained unaddressed, as activists harassed Rothman while he was being interviewed even before the event. “The real motto of the left is ‘Thou shall not speak,’” Rothman told JNS, as protesters shouted over him. thej.ca/2023/05/01/jew…

"Worst of all it seems to say, “We are no longer the People of the Book but the people of the film, art gallery, the commercial, YouTube or Facebook.” thej.ca/2023/05/01/the…

"However, the tour was not without controversy. The University of Manitoba’s chapter of Students Supporting Israel experienced protests against Dror’s arrival, with members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) among the crowd." thej.ca/2023/05/01/the…

"She accounted for her choice to go to Israel despite pressure from her parents with her spirit of adventurousness. It’s not every 2,000 that one can see the Jewish state rebuilt, she said. She didn’t want to wait another two millennia." thej.ca/2023/04/24/the…