Gift from the heart: Azrieli Foundation donates $26M to Jewish General’s cardiac centre
After receiving the largest donation in its history, the Jewish General Hospital inaugurated its new heart centre on Monday, the Azrieli Heart Centre.
Already renowned as one of the best heart centres in North America,...
Wiesenthal Centre to UNICEF: “Replace Your Middle East Ambassador – the Region Needs a...
Paris, 15 June
In a letter to UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta H. Fore, Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, expressed deep concern at the appointment of Egyptian actor, Ahmed Helmy as UNICEF...
Canadian premier apologizes for nation’s failure to save German Jews on ‘St. Louis’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially apologized for his country’s 1939 refusal to allow entry to a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression.
Trudeau made the statement at the House of...
Move to ban male circumcision alarms Jewish leaders
European Jews are on alert after a political party in Norway voted to propose a bill in parliament to ban ritual circumcision of children under the age of 16.
The Progress Party vote came one...
British prime minister affirms opposition to ICC war-crimes probe of Israel
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced the United Kingdom’s opposition to an International Criminal Court investigation into Israel for alleged war crimes.
In an April 9 letter to the British lobby group Conservative Friends of Israel,...
Ex-priest in Poland indicted on hate speech, Holocaust-denial charges
The District Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Wrocław, Poland, indicted former priest Jacek Miedlar on hate speech and Holocaust-denial charges.
Another charge claimed that he insulted the late Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Catholic anti-Communist...
Israel, Russia to jointly mark Auschwitz liberation at the United Nations
In recent months, Israel and Russia have been forging a unique partnership at the United Nations.
Amid the backdrop of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon and his...
Hezbollah becoming ‘more powerful’ along Israel’s northern border, IDF chief warns
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot warned that the Hezbollah terror group is becoming an increasingly strong “military presence” during a period of extended quiet along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
“We know...
At anti-arms rally, reinstated Labour Party member chants for Israel’s destruction
A member of the British Labour Party who was recently reinstated after being suspended last year was reported to the party again after chanting for Israel’s destruction.
Labour councillor Sam Gorst joined former Labour leader...
Israel sees dawn of a new era as African and Arab countries seek diplomatic...
They say history repeats itself, but sometimes, history is made.
When eight Arab countries gathered in 1967 in Khartoum, Sudan, to condemn Israel just months after the Six-Day War and announce what became known as...