By Paul Shindman
What was better, them visiting or us hosting?
An impossible call since we were in hockey heaven with two of the greatest hockey icons of the Maple Leafs, and even Montreal and Edmonton fans look at Henderson as a national treausre.
So it’s an easy call to make - ice hockey and Canada-Israel relations were [...]

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By Paul Shindman
There are a hundred ways to rank the success of a hockey tournament, but you’d have a hard time finding a more amazing set of circumstances that what we have this week in Israel.
The 4th annual Israel Recreational Hockey Tournament started today. It’s only three days long with six teams, but with two [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Paul Henderson is probably the most famous Canadian hockey personality of the 20th century.
And even more so for the Jews.
A year before the historic 1972 Canada-USSR hockey summit, I remember when the entire Jewish community of Toronto marched against the visit of the Soviet foreign minister (Kosygin, for you history buffs). We were [...]

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By Paul Shindman and Adam Michael Segal
Those Canucks stood out all right. With their bright red and white uniforms, the 500 plus strong Canadian contingent of all star Jewish athletes marched into Israel’s national sports stadium Sunday night at the opening ceremonies for the 18th Maccabiah Games.
Known as the Jewish Olympics, athletes from Jewish communities [...]

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By Paul Shindman
In the senior division at the World Jewish Ice Hockey Championships, the USA downed host Israel 4-3 in a close, hard-fought game Sunday. The win means that Canada and the USA are both undefeated in the round robin stage of the championships and face each other in the final regular game at noon [...]

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By Paul Shindman

Two chartered flights from Canada arrived in Israel Friday bringing over 500 of the top Canadian Jewish athletes to the quadrennial Maccabiah games, known as the “Jewish Olympics”.
The gala opening ceremony will take place on Monday evening, July 13, and Canada will march into the Ramat Gan sports stadium just outside Tel Aviv [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Canada’s senior team remained undefeated Thursday as they demolished Russia 13-1 in the fifth day of play at the second World Jewish Ice Hockey Championships being held in Metula, Israel.
The Canadians have a perfect 3 wins and no losses record so far in the opening round robin of the five-team senior tournament, defeating [...]

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By Paul Shindman
In the fourth-day of round-robin play at the World Jewish Cup of Hockey on Wednesday, both Canadian junior teams were in action at the Canada Centre in Metula.
The first string Canadian White team easily blew past the Israelis 5-2, but the second string Canadian Reds were destroyed by the Americans, 7-1, with Shea [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Canada’s two junior hockey teams both scored victories Monday at the World Jewish Hockey Championships in Metulla, Israel.
The Canada Red team defeated Israel’s junior national team 5-4 in a closely fought overtime victory. The team is coached by former NHL player Jeff Beukeboom who is the assistant coach of the OHL Sudbury Wolves. [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Canada defeated Israel 4-0 in the opening game of the senior division at the second World Jewish Ice Hockey Championships that opened Sunday, July 5 at the Canada Center in Metulla, Israel.
In the second game, the USA clobbered the rookie Russian team 16-0, in Russia’s first appearance at the tournament.
The junior tournament begins [...]

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