By Karin Kloosterman
Ever wonder where Canada’s Foreign Ministry dollars go? When it comes to teaching Canadian-style global democracy and educational values, some of Canada’s taxpayer’s money goes to creating equal opportunities in Israel. A project through the Merchavim Institute in Ramle, Israel, is helping teach Israeli society how to embrace –– and access –– its multi-cultural [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
When I was in university my roommate Catherine once lived in Margaret Atwood’s dorm at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Like many young Canadian women in the post-feminism era, we grew up on writers like Atwood who paved the way for us so we wouldn’t have to be feminists. It was so cool [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
It’s an ancient and holy tongue that’s spoken by millions in Israel and it’s becoming ever more popular in Canada.
Hebrew’s expanding use as both a spoken and written language in Canada is obviously a direct result of the growing numbers of Israelis who now call the Great White North home.
But it’s also [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Today is a solemn day not just in Canada, but around the world in all countries that mark November 11. The Middle East is no stranger to Canadian troops, who have been sent to the Holy Land at different times over the past century. Not just the two world wars, but peacekeeping missions [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
It’s estimated there are some 45,000 Israelis in Canada, a number that piqued the interest of Brent Harris a few years ago, when he first heard the number. “Although I had grown up in the Canadian Jewish community, I had never encountered too many Israelis, and this led me to wonder how much [...]

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By Staff
Canada’s Israel would like to congratulate Professor Ada Yonath who has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Yonath is the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel, and she shares the prize with two other scientists for “mapping the ribosome - one of the cell’s most complex machineries,” according the Nobel jury.
Yonath is only [...]

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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 Staff

If you are a fan of Sesame Street (and who isn’t, really?!), then you will definitely enjoy a new 12-part series, scheduled to come out next year called “Shalom Sesame.”
Aimed at teaching Jewish children about Jewish culture, the always loveable globe-trotting Muppet Grover will travel to Israel on his latest adventure.
But he is not [...]

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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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