By Paul Shindman
Hockey playing Jews from around the world are gathering in the Holy Land this week for the second World Jewish Hockey Championship, set to run from July 5 to 15 at the Canada Center in Metulla.
The tryouts are done, the bags packed and the players already starting to arrive for the five nation [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 

    
With their glittering glassworks, gorgeous jewellery and superb craftsmanship, some of Israel’s finest fine art specialists are set to showcase their creations at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE).
 
Orly Wexler, Rachelle Goldreich and Naomi Shaham will be amongst an impressive group of 500 participating artists at the annual event, which takes [...]

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By Staff

Be sure to visit the Royal Ontario Museum between June 27, 2009 and  January 3, 2010 to view the world famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
According to the ROM’s website, “This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity  to see one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century - the earliest record of biblical patriarchs and prophets [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

At every terror attack, every natural disaster, or murder around the world where an Israeli is the victim, you won’t see CSIs from Israel parachuting in -– the first to arrive on the scene are the ZAKA crew. Religious, with beards and kippas usually, these volunteers have the dirty, and holy, job of [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

Be’er Sheva is on the brink of change, according to Ron Folman, head of the nanotechnology department at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva. Folman addressed a crowd last month at Winnipeg’s Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, in a visit sponsored by the Winnipeg chapter of the Canadian Associates of BGU.
The change he referred to involves [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
With an abundance of lakes, rivers and marshes, Canada is blessed with a bounty of water and could very well take this precious resource for granted.
 
On the contrary, Israel is quite limited in the amount of water at its disposal and dutifully does everything it can to innovate when it comes to [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
If you’ve ever been pregnant, you’ve heard the word pre-eclampsia, a potentially fatal condition that effects women and fetuses during pregnancy. The Canada Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) has given a grant to Miraculins Inc. in Canada and Diagnostic Technologies Ltd. in Israel to create products to assess the risk of [...]

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By Paul Shindman
If Second Cup tried the Israeli market and failed, can an Israeli coffee shop chain crack the tough Canadian market and succeed?
A little history and background is needed to understand why the leading Aroma coffee shop chain from Israel recently opened two stores in Toronto.
Coffee aficianados know that instant coffee is simply a [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
Two Israeli flicks are gracing the screen at the 15th annual Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto.
What About Me? and Wind Chimes are being featured at the Cumberland 4 Cinema on June 21 and June 18, respectively.
Written by Orr Schulman, Wind Chimes, a 19-minute short film, focuses on the trials and tribulations [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

As the only foreigners coming to the event to present new solutions, Israeli companies plan on showing off their telecommunications technologies to Canadian firms at the Canadian Telecom Summit, happening now in Toronto. Hosted by the Israel Economic Mission to Canada, the group of 6 companies (some very high-profile like Rad and Comverse), [...]

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