4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (142+ words) A class-action lawsuit against McGill alleging that the university failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism has recently been authorized to proceed. Universities have responsibilities, and when they fail to meet them, there must be consequences. Efforts will fail. No…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1105+ words) Two candidates for mayor in Toronto’s upcoming municipal elections pitched their plans to combat antisemitism to a well-attended event at a North York synagogue that featured frequent references to the absence of Mayor Olivia Chow. Brad Bradford, a current city…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1871+ words) Over the summer, New York Magazine’s “Habibi City” issue set out to celebrate the city’s SWANA scene— Southwest Asia and North Africa, a term meant to replace “Middle East”. But to David Polansky, a political theorist and writer living in…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (183+ words) On Sept. 12, 1969, Canadian Jewry was ushering in Rosh Hashanah, which was beginning that same evening (a Friday, like this year). “In his Rosh Hashana Statement message to this newspaper the Prime Minister of Canada especially espresses [sic] the importance of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (708+ words) Bialystok was an author, a professor at York University and the University of Toronto, and a member of the executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His contributions could be considered a gift to the Jewish community because he completed most…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1011+ words) Reches Pasternak has started walking the halls of Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ont., with tefillin in his bag, ready to help his fellow Jewish students ground themselves amid the day-to-day hustle of academic life. Between attending classes, running the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1710+ words) Just two weeks before the beginning of the High Holidays, the spiritual leaders of Toronto’s oldest Orthodox congregation, Shomrai Shabbos Chevra Mishnayos, sent out an unexpected eblast to their congregation on Friday Aug. 28 reminding them of the Vaad HaRabbanim of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1772+ words) The letter was adopted a while ago, but has not been made public. The CJN received a copy of it in the summer of 2026. On August 28, one of the Vaad’s presidents, Rabbi Yacov Felder, sent the MAID statement out in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (231+ words) In “Looking for love and finding antisemitism on the dating apps,” my colleague, reporter Emma Paidra, interviews 26-year-old Olivia, a Jewish woman who’s what might be called an October 8th endogamist: Writes Paidra: “As a gay man, Nadav has found it…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (349+ words) The National Library of Israel now holds all the back issues of The Canadian Jewish News, starting with the first newspaper published on Jan. 1, 1960. In this new weekly historical feature, The CJN will revisit the archives and look at the…...