Category Archives: World
Walk 4 Friendship attracts 500 plus; JGH Foundation raises $2 million
The 13th Annual Walk 4 Friendship took place recently at Jardin Royalmount. This event benefitted the Friendship Circle, which provides assistance and support to individuals with special needs and their families via recreational, social, educational and vocational programming. Read more » »
B’nai Brith Canada’s Volunteers of the Month: Tiphaera Ziner Cohen
B’nai Brith Canada has introduced a new feature that is being posted regularly at www.bnaibrith.ca/volunteer-with-us. This feature allows us to pay tribute and express gratitude to exceptional volunteers who have given their time and energy to further the missions of our grassroots, human-rights organization. Read more » »
Meeting the pope and the ecumenical patriarch
If we are lucky, as we get older our horizons expand as we continue to retain our solid footing in our world as it grows around us. But few of us get to revel in horizons as wide as the one that surrounds Rabbi Noam Marans. Read more » »
A B’nai B’rtith é parceira da Campanha Mitzva Day Brasil
A B’nai B’rtith é parceira da Campanha Mitzva Day Brasil. Os livros serão distribuídos em um ponto da Linha Vermelha do Metrõ, pela instituição Letraria, no Lar da Criança da CIP e no Arsenal da Esperança – SERMIG. Todos que quiserem doar livros em boa condição podem fazer suas contribuições. Read more » »
B’nai Brith Calls on Government to Examine U of T Hiring Process
University of Toronto (CBC) Nov 3, 2021 TORONTO — B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the Federal Government to investigate a troubling hiring process at the University of Toronto. Read more » »
Aaron T. Beck, MD, Positively Reframed Psychotherapy
IN MEMORIAM“There is more to the surface than meets the eye.”- Aaron T. Beck, MDAaron T. Beck, MD, passed away peacefully on November 1, 2021, on All Saints Day in the Christian tradition, at the notable age of 100.Beck was productive until that end. Read more » »
Acto en Conmemoración de la Noche de los Cristales Rotos
El martes 9 de noviembre, a las 20 h, recordaremos uno de los episodios más tristes del holocausto y la persecución a los judíos por parte de los nazis. Para entender mejor qué sucedió la noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1938 hay que remontarse un par de días antes, o incluso algunos meses previos. Read more » »
Baltimore Fishbowl | Meet Annette Saxon –
Over the years, as she moved from South Carolina to Silicon Valley to Baltimore, Annette Saxon has always volunteered in her community and elsewhere. But for many years, she never really saw herself sitting at the head of the table. Read more » »
Outcry Over Desecration of Torah Scroll in ‘Disturbing’ Vandalism at George Washington University Fraternity
The George Washington University President’s Office. Photo: Difference engine / Wikimedia Commons The desecration of a Torah scroll at a George Washington University fraternity drew widespread condemnation by the campus community, local officials and national Jewish groups on Monday, as Washington, DC police continued an investigation. Read more » »
Free speech – Southside Pride
BY TONY BOUZA Tony Bouza What a facile phrase. Rolls off the tongue so easily we fail to concentrate on its miraculous value. Americans profess it promiscuously, but I’ve found that, when push comes to shove, few really believe in it enough to risk anything meaningful, unless it applies to them. An example: The year was 1967. Read more » »
