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Land of milk and trade wars: Jewish dairy and honey farmers respond to U.S. tariffs

Dairy farmers Dave Loewith and his nephew Ben Loewith run the family's 79-year-old dairy operation near Hamilton, Ont., where their 500 Holstein cows supply milk for the domestic market. (Courtesy Joe ...
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Canada has a secret list of suspected Nazis. This historian found the files online

Professor Jared McBride is a scholar of mass violence and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe during the 20th century. (Courtesy of the USC Shoah Foundation) For decades, the Canadian government has held ...
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Welcome to Scribe Quarterly—introducing The CJN’s reimagined magazine

Click here for a free subscription and receive future print issues in the mail. When The Canadian Jewish News launched in 1960, it was as a weekly print newspaper. Over the decades, it covered ...
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Class action lawsuit against McGill University to include all Jewish students, judge rules

Anti-Israel protesters smash windows at McGill University's Sylvan Adams Sports Sciences Institute on Monday Oct. 7, 2024 as part of their "Week of Rage" marking Israel's military response to the ...
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Moncton mayor regrets that a Hanukkah menorah was briefly banned from display at city hall—but the local prohibition on religious symbols hasn’t been repealed

Moncton's mayor, Dawn Arnold, issued an apology Monday for the city's suprise decision to ban displaying the menorah outside city hall this Hanukkah. (Rogers TV) The City of Moncton intends to ...
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Five arrested after violent attack at TMU event featuring Israeli soldiers

Still photos from a video showing protesters breaking into an event being held off campus by Students Supporting Israel group, near Toronto Metropolitan University on Nov. 5, 2025. (Instagram) A ...
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Shots fired at Toronto synagogue, hours after Purim celebrations ended

Police in front of Temple Emanu-El in Toronto. Shots were fired at the synagogue on Purim evening, March 2, 2026. (Credit: Lila Sarick) Rabbi Debra Landsberg was noticeably upset as she spoke with ...
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Canada’s Jewish community raises funds for Venezuelan community after two deadly earthquakes

Volunteers with Tafsik Organization pack supplies for Venezuela, after the country was hit by two earthquakes June 24, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Tafsik/Instagram) After two massive earthquakes hit ...
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A new philanthropic initiative asks Jewish Canadians to donate half their posthumous charitable givings to Jewish causes—but the uptake is slow

The Jewish Future Pledge invites Canadian philanthropists to donate half of what they would posthumously give to charity to specifically Jewish causes. (Image courtesy Jewish Future Pledge) For ...
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Obituary: Elaine Dewar, 77, was an award-winning journalist driven to uncover injustice

Elaine Dewar, one of Canada’s most influential investigative journalists and an award-winning author died in Toronto on Sept. 18. She was 77. She was renowned as a meticulous researcher who couldn’t ...
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Deborah Lyons shares why she quit as Canada’s antisemitism envoy: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’

Deborah Lyons, Canada's outgoing Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, spoke in March 2025 in Ottawa at a national summit on law enforcement and antisemitism. ...