Am Sonntagabend hat die israelische Armee auf den Golanhöhen eine Anzahl Granaten über die Waffenstillstandslinie hinweg gegen einen militärischen Aussenposten der Syrer geschossen. Der zweite…

Im Mittelpunkt würden gemeinsame Befürchtungen bezüglich Iran stehen. Die Frage nach dem Grund für die Geheimhaltung der Kontakte beantwortete Steinitz wie folgt: «Wir haben mit vielen arabischen und…

Recently, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Jewish history in America, a number of Jewish historians reminisced about the bad old days, when American Jewish history was considered somewhere…

Some Impressions When my mother came to Vancouver from Calgary in 1947, she told me, “It was a difficult time. We lived in the back of a grocery store. My brother and I shared a sort of room. We had…

It’s been more than a decade since Ilan Sandler first delighted the city of Toronto with his giant sculpture Double Storey. From May to September 2003, his 5.5 metre-tall stainless-steel lawn chair…

Between 1933 and 1948 only 5000 Jews were admitted to Canada, the lowest number of any Western nation. Luckily for future generations of youngsters, Lies and Hans Morgenstern, a couple from Fürth,…

Toronto Jewry’s story is similar to most North American large cities: one of the struggling immigrant pulling themselves up from their bootstraps and in three generations becoming prominent movers…