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Deborah Lyons, former antisemitism envoy for Canada
Posted inWorld

Canada’s antisemitism envoy resigns abruptly: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’

by Grace Gilson July 24, 2025July 24, 2025

(JTA) — Canada’s envoy for combating antisemitism is leaving her job early, partly out of exhaustion from “waking up every day to a fight.” Deborah Lyons had been serving as […]

Sarah Resnick (right), a Jewish woman from New York, moved to Winnipeg in summer 2024 over concerns about the American political climate. (Courtesy)
Posted inPolitics

Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada

by Andrew Lapin April 16, 2025April 16, 2025
Sarah Podemski in "Reservation Dogs." (Photo/JTA-Shane Brown-FX)
Posted inTV & Film

For Jewish Indigenous actress Sarah Podemski, it’s a miracle just to exist

by Evelyn Frick and JTA October 14, 2021October 15, 2021
A protester holds a yellow star reading "Not Vaccinated = Jew" as protesters take part in a demonstration in Milan, Italy, July 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Miguel Medina-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

An anti-vaxxer in Montreal said he would stop wearing a yellow star. He still thinks vaccine mandates are like the Holocaust.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 2, 2021
The cover of the first issue of the relaunched Canadian Jewish News -- now a primarily digital- and podcast-focused news outlet with quarterly forays into print.
Posted inNews

Canadian Jewish News restarts, again, eyeing a younger audience

by Andrew Lapin and JTA August 31, 2021
Author Sandy Shefrin Rabin (top row, third from right) in a 1965 class photo from  I. L. Peretz, the same school that the protagonist of her debut novel attends.
Posted inBooks

Marin doctor’s debut novel is about a Jewish girl in Manitoba (just like she was)

by Liz Harris August 23, 2021August 23, 2021
Pro-Palestinian protesters at Yonge-Dundas square in Toronto, May 22, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Arindam Shivaani-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Canada hit with wave of antisemitic attacks sparked by Israel-Gaza conflict

by David Lazarus May 27, 2021May 27, 2021
Screenshot of the Canadian Jewish News website, Dec. 15, 2020.
Posted inUncategorized

Canadian Jewish News to relaunch next month as online publication

by David Lazarus and JTA December 15, 2020
Heather Segal, a Canadian immigration lawyer, says she has gotten far more inquiries from U.S. citizens this year than ever before, and most of them have come from Jews. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Segal)
Posted inNews

‘I’m not going to get stuck’: Ahead of the election, growing numbers of U.S. Jews consider leaving

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 2, 2020October 2, 2020
Canadian indigenous and Jewish photographer Kali Spitzer (left) was mostly raised in Victoria by her Jewish mother, Eloise (right). (Photos/Kali Spitzer)
Posted inCulture

This indigenous and Jewish photographer wants to tell her people’s stories — before it’s too late

Josefin Dolsten by JTA and Josefin Dolsten June 4, 2019June 4, 2019

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