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VANCOUVER — In the first instance of anti-Israel sentiment directed at Vancouver-based Mountain Equipment Co-op since April 2009, demonstrators will be handing out leaflets at MEC stores across the country on Saturday, Nov. 28. They are ostensibly protesting MEC’s sourcing of product from Israel. The company sources its underwear and hydration systems for backpacks from Israel. In response, the Canada Israel Committee is encouraging Jewish communities throughout Canada to participate in the Buycott Israel program by buying Israeli products at MEC, especially on Sunday, Nov. 29 between 11 […]

Film traces the journey of Hana’s suitcase (with video) Larry Weinstein’s Inside Hana’s Suitcase, opening in Toronto on Nov. 6, is a beautifully crafted, seamless documentary for all ages. Schools take all H1N1 precautions Schools in Montreal and Toronto were re-emphasizing the importance of vigilance and prevention last week as vaccination programs rolled out and concerns among parents mounted after two Ontario children died from the H1N1 virus. Marlee Matlin discusses her life at UJA event If there’s one thing Academy Award-winning actor Marlee Matlin wants hearing people to know, it’s […]

By SHELDON KIRSHNER, Staff Reporter David Grossman’s taut novel, Someone To Run With, which was made into a He brew-language movie in 2006 by Oded Davidoff, will be screened by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival on Sun day, Nov. 1, at 5 p.m. at the SilverCity theatre in Richmond Hill. Bar Belfer plays Tamar in Someone to Run With. Davidoff’s film, set mainly in Jeru salem in the 1990s, is at once grim and elegiac, turning on two young Israelis who fall romantically into each other’s arms thanks to a lost golden Labrador dog found wandering the city streets. Assaf (Yonatan Bar-Or), a shy and […]

When Eran Bester worked in Canada as the Bank Leumi’s representative in Montreal from 2004 to 2007, he was struck by the fact that so many Canadians had a one-sided view of Israel. Ushpizin He was “deeply disappointed” that their knowledge, if not perception, of Israel was gleaned almost exclusively from the endless violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Bester believes there’s much more to Israel than its long-simmering dispute with the Arab world and the Palestinians, and he wracked his brain to find a way to show Israeli society in all its facets and dimensions. Although he’s not […]

By SHERI SHEFA, Staff Reporter TORONTO — By now, most people have heard about the controversy that erupted last month when hundreds of people signed a letter of protest against the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) City to City Spotlight on Tel Aviv. Natalie Portman, helped to counter protest But what many people don’t know is that it led UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to pursue a rather unusual partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles to enlist its help in mobilizing Hollywood A-listers – such as Natalie Portman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason […]