Archive for December, 2009
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
This item by Dr. Alex Grobman was originally published by GM's Place.Com Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian (Christian) Arabs Suffer at the Hands of Muslims On December 11, 2009, a group of Palestinian Christian leaders issued a 13 page document known as ”Kairos Palestine-2009: A moment of truth.” ...
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
The CIC released the following statement today:
Canada-Israel Committee extends good wishes to all who celebrate Christmas
Ottawa, Ontario
December 24, 2009
In holiday greetings to our Christian friends, Moshe Ronen, chair of the Canada-Israel Committee, said:
"At this holy time on the Christian calendar, we extend our good wishes to all who celebrate the ...
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
This year-end op-ed by Ramesh Chotai, chair of the Canada India Foundation. and Alan Winer, chair of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto appears in today's edition of the National Post. Preventing another decade of extremism National Post Dec 24 2009 As we prepare to celebrate the landmark of the end of a decade, ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Israel’s Ministry of Defense issued the following memorandum about the coordination of activities in the Territories for Christmas in the coming weeks:
Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories meets with Patriarchs and Church leaders for Christmas
The Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot, and the Head ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Choir caught in disharmony
By Tim Franks
BBC News, Jerusalem
It should be a time of unalloyed joy for Tim Brown. The director of one of Britain's most well-regarded choirs is beginning a six-concert tour of Israel this week.
The choir of Clare College, Cambridge, will be singing Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the ...
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
The following column by Rosie Dimanno was published in today's edition of the Toronto Star:
Agency's anti-Israel role is obvious
It is rather presumptuous for a non-Jew to define anti-Semitism. That's not something a Gentile can feel in the bones, especially in its nuanced rather than overt form.
Stating the parameters of anti-Semitism ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Here is an important op-ed from today Ha'aretz:
All of Palestine
By Ari Shavit
Ha’aretz, December 17, 2009
The cat is out of the bag: Palestine, all of Palestine. Standing before 100,000 people in the center of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh this week declared the objective of the Hamas movement. The moderate prime minister of ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, takes a look at an Egyptian scheme to stop smuggling into Gaza.
On Dec. 9, the BBC reported from Cairo that, according to unnamed intelligence sources, Egypt, helped by American army engineers, ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The following was published by the Daily Gleaner (Fredericton) in response to a previous op-ed, The Israelis and Palestinians are in dire need of a divorce, by Navid Majid.
The State of Israel must be universally recognized
Published Wednesday December 16th, 2009
By DAVID MURRELL
In a recent op-ed column, Naveed Majid used the ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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A team of archaeologists and scientists has found the first known pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in a tomb in Jerusalem. The researchers, from Hebrew University and institutions in the ...
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