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

It happened a day after Canada and the rest of the world, but Israel celebrated Earth Day yesterday in style. While Israelis were caught with their pants down this year for Earth Hour (there was a very important Israel-Greece soccer match after all), they made up for it with last night’s concert at [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Ontario universities have some of the world’s most massive libraries, located at several locations over sprawling campuses. Spending hours at Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, used to make me wonder how on earth do the librarians keep track of all those books?
Well they couldn’t exactly, at least not in a system [...]

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by Karen Kloosterman

Israel isn’t called the Holy Land for nothing. The feeling of something other-worldly, is in the air. You can smell it. This is especially true in Jerusalem, just a few minutes outside the city centre where you can find yourself engulfed in sweet smelling pine tree forests (with some trees planted by Canadians, [...]

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by Lauren Kramer
To mark Israel’s 60th birthday, Canada Christian College is creating a department dedicated to studying the Holy Land, with Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of Bnai Brith Canada, serving as its first department chair.
The Department of Modern Israel, which will open this fall, may well be the first Christian university offering a course in [...]

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