We found this great greeting on the web!  The team at Canada’s Israel would like to wish all who celebrate Christmas, in Canada, Israel and around the world, a joyous holiday.

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By Karin Kloosterman
Israeli companies are starting to look to Toronto’s stock exchange as an alternative to the NASDAQ. Lately, there seems to be a surge in growing business ties between Canada and Israel, reports the Jewish Tribune.
A new money management firm called BSP Funds Canada Inc is the first Israel-based company of its kind in [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Growing up a Catholic in Newmarket, Ontario, part of our “education” was to see the Shroud of Turin, making the rounds from its home in Rome. Some people believed at the time (and still do) that it was the burial shroud of Jesus, the Christian messiah, offering tangible proof for the crucifixion/resurrection story. [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 

Vancouver is in for a dose of musical comfort as Israeli artists’ Habanot Nechama - The Comfort Girls - are coming to town.
The three lady vocalists will play at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s Norman Rothstein Theatre on January 17, 2010.
Singers Yael Deckelbaum, Karolina Avratz and Dana Adini are renowned [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and although more people are celebrating Hanukkah in Israel right now than Christmas, a minority of Israeli Arabs who are Christian are full of holiday cheer. Watch this video on Christmas in Nazareth for the full experience.
Surprised to see no camels walking the streets? On the eve [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Docs have been doing it for years, but now nurses may soon discover the joys of job-swap too. Mary Agnes Beduz, director of nursing education and development, and Leslie Vincent, senior VP of patient services and chief nursing executive, both at Mount Sinai Hospital, visited Tel Aviv this past April.
Their goal was to [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Jewish religious values can help green The Holy Land.
Noam Dolgin is a Jewish environmental educator and the executive director of the Green Zionist Alliance (GZA). Based in Vancouver, Canada, he travels regularly around North America teaching about Jewish environmental values and Israel’s environment.
Here’s our interview with him:
What are your organization’s core activities, [...]

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The team at Canada’s Israel would like to wish you a happy chanukah!

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By Adam Michael Segal
It’s been almost 15 years since the Aviv String Quartet first struck a chord with audiences and they continue to dazzle chamber music enthusiasts.
Most recently, the quartet appeared at Winnipeg’s Berney Theatre as part of the Israel Concern Series.
True to form, they displayed their talents, playing songs by some of the greats, [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A Canadian-born doctor who moved to Israel in 1995, was in Montreal recently to discuss his research. Dr. Karl Skorecki has so many titles they need a line of their own. He’s director of medical and research development at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, and professor of medicine at the Rappaport [...]

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