Canada’s 17,000 Jewish soldiers who served in WWII are finally getting their due at Veterans Affairs Canada. A new web exhibit two years in the making has gone live on the government website Remembering Those Who Served.
Dateline: Courseulles-sur-Mer, France: You sure attract a lot of attention when you ride through the streets of Normandy in…
Usually I don’t talk about myself when I speak to audiences around the world about “Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the…
David Birnbaum, the MNA for the D’Arcy-McGee riding in Montreal, rose in the Quebec legislature recently to pay tribute to…
And, as many Canadian airmen said after they liberated concentration camps, they never forgot what they saw. But Montreal electrician Ben Delson of the RCAF went one step further; he had a camera, and his black and white photos from Belsen show the mass graves, while others show bodies in shrouds before burial, and one shows a sign indicating the location of mass grave #7.
With the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, the good people behind the Juno Beach Centre criss-crossed the country to…
Following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, not many people know about the historic Canadian anti-semitism against the Jewish community of Quebec City, but it is in my book “Double Threat” about the experiences of Canada’s Jewish community before and during WWII. It is a story my own family knows well.
Why Canada’s 17,000 Jewish fighters served in WWII, and why we should honour their contribution to defeating Hitler and rescuing the survivors of the Holocaust. A new podcast episode by the Juno Beach Centre in Normandy.
The anniversary of the Dieppe Raid is commemorated every August 19th, but the date is never far from the mind…
Before Beth Tzedec became Canada’s largest Conservative Jewish synagogue, with 7,000 members, it was formed by the amalgamation of two…