Sheldon Gordon
By Sheldon Gordon
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News Toronto Congregation Rocked by Allegation That Rabbi Had Illicit Affair
Toronto – In a case that has rocked one of North America’s largest Conservative synagogues, a woman who was taking singing lessons from an area rabbi is claiming that the rabbi seduced her. She is seeking a total of more than $1 million in damages from both him and the synagogue he once served. Yona…
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News Quebec Jews Rethink Traditional Ties to Province’s Liberal Party
Montreal – The 90,000-strong Montreal Jewish community, long a dependable source of votes and cash for Quebec’s ruling Liberal Party, is suddenly putting its political allegiance up for grabs. A dozen of the community’s major political fundraisers, unhappy with Liberal Premier Jean Charest over a host of issues large and small, recently had dinner with…
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News Blogger Opens Iranian-Israeli Dialogue Online
Toronto – As Tehran and Jerusalem exchange threats on a regular basis, a former Iranian journalist who is credited with having popularized Internet “blogging” in the Islamic republic is waging a campaign to defuse the tensions. Hossein Derakhshan, a 32-year-old Iranian expatriate living in Toronto, files daily blog posts in his native Farsi and in…
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News Liberal Hopes To Stem Voter Drift
When Canada’s Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, recently accused the opposition Liberal Party of being “anti-Israel,” Liberals and the media looked for a credible rebuttal not from Jewish members of the party but from the politician who is considered by many in the community to be an “honorary Jew.” The counterattack was quickly forthcoming from…
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News Jews, Muslims in Canada Fight Over Hezbollah
TORONTO – In a reflection of growing tensions between Canada’s Jewish and Arab communities, spawned by the Lebanon War, B’nai Brith Canada last week called for a crackdown on protesters who wave the Hezbollah flag at anti-Israel demonstrations. B’nai Brith made the demand after 15,000 residents of Quebec, mainly Lebanese-Canadians, marched in a pro-Hezbollah demonstration…
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News Canada Gets Orthodox Guardian Angel
TORONTO — With an Orthodox Jew at their helm, two dozen recent graduates of the Guardian Angels training program — resplendent in their trademark red berets and red satin bomber jackets — last week launched the first Canadian chapter of the New York-based law-and-order group. Lou Hoffer, a former Toronto cop and security consultant, first…
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News Canada Cracks Down on Internet Hate
TORONTO — Canada’s criminal justice system has begun to crack down on people who are spreading antisemitism and other forms of bigotry over the Internet. A Montreal man faces up to two years in jail after pleading guilty earlier this month to willfully promoting hatred through a racist Web site that he created and managed;…
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News Philanthropist at Center of Canadian Campaign Flap
TORONTO — Barry Sherman is often cheered as one of Canadian Jewry’s most successful businessmen and most generous donors to charitable causes. But this month, his largess has put him at the center of a campaign finance scandal. The controversy involves about $100,000 of political contributions from Sherman — the 64-year-old founder and chair of…
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