Sheldon Gordon
By Sheldon Gordon
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News Canadian Hospital Refuses Kidney Transplant Patient
MONTREAL — When Baruch Tegegne, a Montreal resident who played a heroic role in Israel’s rescue of his fellow Ethiopian Jews, found a kidney donor, he was hoping to have a transplant at the nearby Royal Victoria Hospital. Instead, he seems more likely to end up in court with the hospital than in one of…
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News Canadian Aborigine Fined for Calling Jews a ‘Disease’
TORONTO — A prominent leader of Canada’s aboriginal community has been found guilty of “willfully promoting hatred,” after he publicly called Jews a “disease” and defended Adolf Hitler for having “fried 6 million of those guys” to stop them from “owning the world.” Last week, a trial judge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, found David Ahenakew, 71,…
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News Canadian Financier’s Rapid Climb Ends
TORONTO — Israeli-born financial wunderkind Boaz Manor generated national headlines earlier this year when he returned to his native country after being served with a court order by Canadian authorities investigating his failed hedge fund. Now, Manor’s father, Daniel, himself a leading businessman, is defending his son’s decision to head back to Israel. Daniel Manor,…
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News Ukrainians Want Jews Probed on War Crimes
TORONTO — For years, the Ukrainian-Canadian community has been on the defensive over the Jewish community’s allegations that Nazi war criminals — many of them of Ukrainian origin — were living in Canada. Now, a Ukrainian-Canadian organization has turned the tables by accusing several elderly Jews of having been involved in Soviet war crimes. The…
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Israel News A Mystery: How Can You Write What You Cannot Read?
TORONTO — When Toronto-based mystery writer Howard Engel won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s lifetime achievement award earlier this month, few people were surprised. The 74-year-old Canadian author has an impressive history: He’s been published in 13 languages, and has broken down cultural and literary barriers with his 11 popular novels about private eye Benny…
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News Public Opinion Sinks Proposal on Subsidies for Quebec Day Schools
MONTREAL — In a humiliating reversal for Montreal’s 90,000-member Jewish community, Quebec’s provincial government has retreated from plans to subsidize the province’s Jewish day schools fully, following accusations that the ruling Liberal Party was simply trying to reward the Jewish community for its financial contributions. Quebec already provides the most generous benefits in Canada for…
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News Canadian Group Sides With Muslims on Law
TORONTO — In a move that is angering Jewish feminists, B’nai Brith Canada is supporting the demands of conservative Muslims in the province of Ontario who wish to have the right to use private arbitration based on Islamic law for the resolution of their marital, custody and inheritance disputes. A report prepared for the Ontario…
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Israel News Canadian Ethics Umpire Uncovers a ‘Strippergate’
OTTAWA — When reports surfaced earlier this month that a stripper had been given “landed immigrant” status by Canada’s immigration minister shortly after she’d worked as a volunteer on the minister’s re-election campaign, federal Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro launched an investigation. It’s the ethics umpire’s job to enforce the federal code of conduct for public…
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