Category Archives: World
Focus on aged, community care
FOCUS has shifted to the aged and community care sector as JCA enters the second week of its fundraising campaign. Organisations operating in this sector include JewishCare, the Burger Centre, COA Sydney, Montefiore, Wolper Jewish Hospital and B’nai B’rith Retirement Villages, who collectively provide a wide range of services to the community. Read more » »
Vem aí mais um encontro internacional via YouTube, agora com o jornalista Milton Blay
Vem aí mais um encontro internacional via YouTube! O jornalista Milton Blay falará neste domingo, dia 29 de maio, às 16h00, sobre “Intolerância e Antissemitismo“. Milton Blay é formado em direito e jornalismo, com mestrado em economia e doutorado em ciências políticas e já passou por prestigiados veículos de comunicação do Brasil e do exterior. Read more » »
Victoire: Soccer Canada abandonne un match d’exhibition suite à une action en justice de B’nai Brith Canada
Canada Soccer logo, Canadasoccer.com 26 mai 2022 VANCOUVER – La veille du jour où Soccer Canada a annulé le match d’exhibition du 5 juin entre les équipes nationales du Canada et de l’Iran, B’nai Brith a demandé à la Cour fédérale une ordonnance visant à interdire que des fonds canadiens soient versés à la Fédération iranienne de soccer. Read more » »
Victory: Soccer Canada Drops Exhibition Match Following Legal Action by B’nai Brith Canada – B’nai Brith Canada
Canada Soccer logo, Canadasoccer.com May 26, 2022 VANCOUVER – The day before Soccer Canada pulled the plug on a June 5 exhibition game between the national teams from Canada and Iran, B’nai Brith filed in Federal Court for an order seeking to prohibit Canadian funds from going to the Iranian Soccer Federation. Read more » »
Daily Alert: Thursday, May 26, 2022
Daily Alert included a summary of the essay by Eugene Kontorovich published in part one of B’nai B’rith International’s new report, „The Apartheid Slander Against Israel and the Ideological Distortion of Human Rights,” and included a link to the full report in its May 26 issue. Read more » »
Media Coverage of Jewish Groups’ Responses to the Mass Shooting in Uvadle, Texas
The Algemeiner, JTA and Religion News Service included B’nai B’rith International’s statement in its coverage of Jewish groups’ responses to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “We would like to think we can never become numb to this madness,” B’nai B’rith commented. Read more » »
B’nai Brith Canada Makes Recommendations to Senate on New Holocaust-Denial Bill
Canadian Senate, Wikipedia May 25, 2022 OTTAWA – Recommendations on how to improve Canada’s proposed law on the criminalization of Holocaust denial have been made by B’nai Brith Canada. We provided testimony last week to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Read more » »
Jewish groups condemn Texas elementary school shooting, but only some push for action – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday, an array of Jewish groups issued statements that fell into two categories: generalized grief and recommendations for action. Read more » »
Curtis George Ward Obituary (1917 – 2022) The Daily Memphian
Curtis George Ward died on May 23, 2022, at the age of 104. Curt, born Kurt Georg Wertheim, lived a most wonderful and interesting life, that unspooled like a cross between a History Channel documentary and Forrest Gump. „The essence of my life,” Curt said, „is that I was blessed with good fortune. Read more » »
B’nai Brith Canada wants Ottawa to demand UNHRC reform
B’nai Brith Canada’s League For Human Rights has sent a letter to all Canadian MPs and Senators urging them to demand reform of the United Nations Human Rights Council.”Recently Canada joined 92 other nations in suspending Russia from the UNHRC,” the letter from League National Director Marvin Rotrand points out. Read more » »
