by Cindy Leszczynski | May 15, 2013 | Local
http://www.cjnews.com/campus/york-university-revokes-anti-israel-student-groups-club-status
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 15, 2013 | Local
Itay Zutra, who was born and raised in Israel. gave a lecture about the Image of the Shtetl in Anti-Shtetl Yiddish Poems at Limmud 2013. Zutra received his PhD in modern Yiddish literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (2011). Zutra has taught...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 15, 2013 | Local
In an exclusive interview with the Winnipeg Jewish review when she was in town recently, world renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt was asked whether she believes that a vibrant Jewish Studies program (note this is wider than just a Judaics program) is needed...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 14, 2013 | Local
San Francisco- JIMENA, a San Francisco based non-profit organization has submitted two briefs to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development for their May 7th hearing on Jewish refugees from the Middle East and...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 13, 2013 | Local
[Joshua Morry is a member of UMSU Council, and the representative of the Commerce Students’ Association who moved the UMSU resolution that removed SAIA’s student group status and banned them from using UMSU spaces. The motion passed 19 to 16, with...