Shana Tova – Happy New Year
Monday, September 29th, 2008The Staff and Board of the Canada-Israel Committee wish you a sweet New Year filled with peace and joy.
Archive for September, 2008
The Staff and Board of the Canada-Israel Committee wish you a sweet New Year filled with peace and joy.
Canada Votes Against UN Human Rights Council Gaza Report
Thursday, September 25th, 2008While all eyes were on the opening of the UN’s General Assembly in New York, on Sept. 24, 2008, Canada voted against a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution affirming the report and recommendations of the UN fact-finding mission dispatched to Gaza to investigate the November 2006 Beit Hanoun incident. ...
According to Reports: Livni’s Rise Prompts Analyses of Peace Prospects
Thursday, September 25th, 2008In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, reviews the morning-after coverage of Tzipi Livni's Kadima victory Michaels writes: "The Sept. 18 National Post gave Livni's win scant attention in a 100-word Agence France-Presse piece titled 'Israeli Foreign Minister new Kadima leader.' ...
Did You Know? Einstein’s Telescope on Display at Hebrew U
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Albert Einstein's telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, after a three-year, $10,000 restoration. Einstein, who was a co-founder of Hebrew University, willed his records to the school. Read more in this Associated Press report. You can get Did ...
Livni Op-Eds: Segev in Win Free Press; Lakritz in Calgary Herald
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008The task ahead for newly elected Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni is to form a working coalition government - never easy given the fractious Israeli political scene. But that's not the even biggest challenge facing Livni, writes Samuel Segev in the Winnipeg Free Press: "A new Israeli government also will have ...
NGO Monitor Says CIDA Funding Anti-Israel NGOs
Thursday, September 18th, 2008According to a new report by the watchdog group NGO Monitor, CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) provides "funding for numerous ideological organizations with documented anti-Israel agendas and activities." Although support has decreased since 2005, "funding continues for a number of NGOs engaged in anti-Israel campaigning. This group includes Al Haq, Alternatives, ...
CBC.ca Profiles Tzipi Livni
Thursday, September 18th, 2008At CBC.ca, reporter Margaret Evans profiles newly elected Kadima Leader Tzipi Livni in "The woman who would be prime minister." Evans writes: "Therei s more to the Livni phenomenon in Israel than the inevitable historical comparisons [to Golda Meir]. "Opinion polls continue to cast her as one of the most popular ...
Did You Know? Life Traumas Linked to Breast Cancer
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Severe life events may increase the risk for breast cancer in younger women, according to a new study by researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University. The study found a positive correlation between exposure to more than one adverse factor – such as the loss of a parent, or separation from a ...
Jordan’s Outreach to Hamas: The Politics of Distress
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008In the latest Issue Brief from the Jersualem Center for Public Affairs, veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Pinhas Inbari writes: "Until recently, Jordan was the only Arab country that had boycotted the fundamentalist Hamas movement. However, in 2007 Jordanian intelligence held a series of meetings with Hamas leaders to end hostile relations ...
CJMF 93.3 FM Promotion: See Paul McCartney in Tel Aviv
Friday, September 12th, 2008This summer, our sister organization, the Quebec-Israel Committee, worked with CJMF 93.3 FM Québec to broadcast in Israel. Now the radio station is running a contest to see Paul McCartney in his historic Tel Aviv concert. Click here to listen to the on-air promotion (MP3 format, 1.13 min)
