Archive for May, 2009
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Below is the transcript from the media briefing following yesterday's meeting between the two leaders.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, listen, I first of all want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for making this visit. I think we had a extraordinarily productive series of conversations, not only between the two of us but also at ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Here is the latest Jerusalem Issue Brief from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
Al Jazeera and Qatar: The Muslim Brothers' Dark Empire?
by Zvi Mazel
There has been a significant presence of the Muslim Brothers (also known as the Muslim Brotherhood) in Qatar since the second half of the twentieth century. The ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, strongly objects to the fact that our taxpayer-funded CBC Radio aired the blatantly anti-Semitic play Seven Jewish Children.
Criticism of Israel is reaching a state of hysterical overreaction, devoid of rational analysis ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
by Noah Shack
Government Relations Research Associate, Canada-Israel Committee
As expected, the United States was elected to the UN Human Rights Council on May 12, 2009, replacing Canada as the only North American representative to the 18 member international panel. Canada will leave the Human Rights Council with a sterling voting record, ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
On Sunday May 31, the Canadian Jewish Congress is celebrating 90 years with a remarkable line-up of guests at its 29th Plenary Assembly.
The event will honour Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Julia and Henry Koschitzky with two of Canadian Jewry's most prestigious awards.
Hear from keynote speaker Michael Ignatieff, Leader of ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Israel's latest export is technology education. The ORT Israel educational network recently won an international tender, worth an estimated 1.5 million Euros, to teach European Union students about nanotechnology. About 400 schools in 20 European countries will run the project, reaching approximately 30,000 students. You can read more about this ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
To mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Israel, the CIC produced a special four-page supplement to the Hill Times. This full-colour, bilingual publication looks at the many landmark agreements and developments between our two countries in the fields of science and technology, trade, culture, academics and ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Statement by Hershell Ezrin, CEO, Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA):
2009 marks the 50th anniversary of York University, a proud academic institution with a long history of Jewish life and Jewish involvement. However, it saddens and concerns us that the anniversary celebrations include a conference ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Today - May 11 - is the 60th anniversary of relations between Canada and Israel. Both countries acknowledged their long and close friendship with government statements:
Canada Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations with Israel
May 11, 2009
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement commemorating 60 ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
This weekend many of us will celebrate Mother's Day. As we prepare to fete our own mothers, it is chilling to watch this recent video from National Geographic in which Lisa Ling interviews a Palestinian woman who raised her children to prepare them for suicide attacks in the conflict with ...
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