By Lauren Kramer

Yoav Talmi, the Israeli artistic director and conductor of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, was decorated with the insignia of officer of the National Order of Quebec this month by Quebec Premier Jean Charest.
Talmi was appointed to the position in 1998, and Charest said, he has “brought it up to an artistic level on [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

(Above is a video of Leonard Cohen’s hit Halleluiah taken at the Ramat Gan stadium on Thursday night. The song kills me every time I hear it, and is supposedly about the biblical King David and his love for Bathsheba.) 
As readers of Canada’s Israel blog know, Leonard Cohen played to a sold-out [...]

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By Staff
Canadian singer and songerwriter Leonard Cohen thrilled a packed stadium of fans tonight during his first concert in Israel in over 30 years.
The 47,000 tickets were snatched up within minutes when they went on sale, and the adoring fans were treated to quite the show.
Showing no apparent affects from an illness last week, Cohen belted [...]

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By Staff
After a slew of boycott attempts by anti-Israel groups over the past year, from Mountain Equipment Co-op to liquor stores, and more recently the focus on Tel Aviv at the Toronto International Film Festival, some Canadians are fighting back.
BUYcott Israel is a new website created by the Canada-Israel Committee and some Jewish Federations across [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A Torontonian will receive an honourary doctorate from the University of Haifa November 15, at a tribute dinner in Toronto. Dr. Michael Dan, the recipient, is the former CEO of the drug firm Novopharm Biotech, and is being feted for his commitment to human rights, philanthropy in Canada and Israel, and his support [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

With ebony hair reaching far down her back, a petite figure and gorgeous lashes framing her dark eyes, Jerus Truneh could easily pass for a model. The 26-year-old Ethiopian Israeli law student was in Vancouver this past month gaining experience at the law firm Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP and telling her story [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
Legends of the Israel Basketball Association will hoop it up in Toronto as they square off against the York Region Police team for a good cause.
Such greats as Tal Brody, Micki Berkovich and Nadav Henefeld will be amongst the cadre of former Israeli stars who will be on court to raise funds [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Doug Kooy is a Canadian filmmaker who believes Canadians need to know the real story of life in Israel, not the story of war, bombs and fighting that the media portrays. He made it his business to try and tell that story of everyday life, spending $800,000 to produce The Original Promise, a [...]

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See more great toilet paper wedding dress shots on the Toronto Sun website.

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By Karin Kloosterman
Madonna, if you’ve been following the news on her choice of Kosher meat, has been in Israel. Calling Tel Aviv “the energy capital of the world,” you can get a little taste of the frenetic Israeli city through art at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) starting next week.
In a special focus, the [...]

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