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Maccabi announces its ‘Team Canada’

Eight NCAA Division I players, five competing in European pro leagues and a handful of OHL and tier-two junior players, make up the bulk of the Canadian roster that will compete for hockey gold at the 2013 Maccabiah Games. AHL centre Trevor Smith,...

Consul general answers media’s spin of leaked report

TORONTO — News out of Israel earlier this month suggesting that DJ Schneeweiss, the country’s new consul general to Toronto and Western Canada, had written a report that harms the Jewish state’s interests were “spun out of...

Hurricane strands students for a week

A group of Toronto high school students made their way home from New York City after hurricane Sandy kept them on the ground for five days. The students, from Bnei Akiva Schools, flew into the city on Oct. 26 for what they thought would be a weekend...

Loblaw packaging to carry only COR certification

Kosher products marketed under Loblaw Companies’ store brands, including President’s Choice, No name and Blue Menu, will soon carry a single kosher symbol – the COR designation of the Kashruth Council of Canada – instead of...

IDF orphans celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs

JERUSALEM — Coloured toffees rained down on the bar and bat mitzvah guests of honour and whoops of elation filled the Western Wall plaza as 35 IDF orphans marked their coming of age in a group ceremony in Jerusalem. Some 100 family members and...

Dozens of communities besieged by the storm

NEW YORK — When Rabbi Avremel Okonov arrived on the morning of Oct. 29 at the school he co-founded 10 years ago in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, the water in the basement had already receded from the high water mark. It only...

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	Former solicitor general ‘made a big difference’Robert Kaplan, Canada’s solicitor general from 1980 to 1984, died Nov. 5 of cancer. He was 75. Kaplan brought in Canada’s Young Offenders...read more...
	Police refuse to lay charges against madrassahYork Regional Police will not lay hate promotion charges against an east end Islamic school, despite a curriculum that “suggested intolerance...read more...
	Weizmann Institute to open new research centreDr. Ido Amit envisions a future in which doctors can tailor individualized treatment plans for diseases based on a person’s genetic makeup. His...read more...

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	Author discusses holy Jewish treasures in the VaticanRabbi Benjamin Blech, co-author of The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican, makes an appearance in...read more...
	Singer makes multicultural musicDonna Greenberg sings in five languages on her newest album, Song in the Wind. Several tracks are recorded twice on the album – once in English...read more...
	A ‘ratical’ re-telling of CinderellaWinnipeg-born actress Amy Lee plays Claws, a rat, in the North American premiere of Cinderella (a RATical retelling), the latest offering from Young...read more...
	Fusion jazz trio to play Al Green TheatreFresh from touring the world, the Hadar Noiberg Trio comes to the Al Green Theatre on Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. Hadar Noiberg is an Israeli-born, New York-...read more...

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