By Reut Cohen B’nai Brith Canada The U.S. Olympic women’s artistic gymnastics team, dubbed the Final Five, has been making headlines for its success at this year’s Summer Olympics, including for winning a gold medal in the all-around team finals. While team captain Aly Raisman’s Jewish heritage is by now common knowledge — her parents […]
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Israeli scientist, Jeff Steinhauer, has proved that Stephen Hawking’s hypothesis of black holes is true. The road to validating the hypothesis began last year when Steinhauer and his research team at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, conducted an experiment to verify Hawking’s research. And after a year of intense
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The bishop of a large African-American church association in Missouri penned an open letter to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement that has rejected the notion that Israel is an apartheid state and dismissed the call for boycott and sanctions of the Jewish state. On Sunday, August 14, President
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The Arab man who admitted to stabbing a yeshiva student last week in a Jerusalem neighbourhood has been found, arrested and discovered to be a dangerous terrorist. On August 11, a yeshiva student was attacked on his way back from praying at the Mount of Olives cemetery in A-Tur,
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Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada To borrow a term from baseball, B’nai Brith Day at the Winnipeg Goldeyes’ game this past Sunday was a big hit. Nearly 1,700 people showed up at Shaw Park for the eighth time that B’nai Brith has hosted its “Afternoon with the Goldeyes” event. The event is a community service
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Israeli forces have demolished the family home of the Palestinian assailant who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl in June. A large military force, including the Combat Engineering Corps, razed the family home of Muhammad Nasser-Tarayrah early Monday morning. Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court approved the demolition of the terrorist’s family’s home.
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On Sunday, Canadian and world Jewry will observe the fast of Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Throughout the centuries, Tisha B’Av has also become a day for commemorating the Crusader massacres, the expulsion from Spain, and the countless other waves of antisemitic persecution that have affected
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Chabad Lubavitch leaders have signed a new deal with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), which exempts 15% of yeshiva students from military service. The new agreement states that 15% of Chabad yeshiva students will receive a complete exemption from service in order to focus on being emissaries of Chabad.
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada For the fourth time in nine days, vandals have scrawled ‘Jew’ on an image of a rat in Chinatown, Washington D.C., as reported by the DCist. DowtownDC, a private non-profit, encourages businesses in the city centre to create works of outdoor art. Chinatown, located in the northwestern quadrant of the
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada It may have taken a few Olympiads, but Israel is finally back on the podium. Israel’s Yarden Gerbi won bronze in the Rio Olympics women’s under 63 kg Judo competition after she beat Japan’s Miku Tashiro on Tuesday, August 9. It’s Israel’s first Olympic medal since 2008 when it
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