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The Canadian Jewish News is a non-profit, [2] national, English-language digital-first media organization that serves Canada's Jewish community. [3] [4] [5] A national edition of the newspaper was published for 60 years in Toronto. A weekly Montreal edition in English with some French began its run in 1976. [1]
As the Canadian affiliate of the World Jewish Congress, representative to the Claims Conference and to the World Jewish Restitution Organization, CIJA is also connected to the organized Jewish community. In September 2024, CIJA formally requested of the Canadian government to adopt four new policies to help ensure the safety of Canadian Jews. [7]
The CZF seeks to enrich Canadian Jewish life through Jewish education, Israel and Zionist information, promotion of Aliyah, and activities among Canadian Jewish youth. The CZF is a mixed territorial body composed of sixteen constituent organizations operating in six regions and encompasses a membership of 15,000 Zionists in Canada.
The Jewish Tribune was a privately owned community-based Canadian weekly Jewish newspaper founded by and closely associated with B'nai Brith Canada. [2] It was founded in 1964 as The Covenant, B'nai Brith's in-house newsletter and was later relaunched in the mid-1990s as an external publication at which point it adopted the name Jewish Tribune. [3]
Pages in category "Jewish newspapers published in Canada" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
At the end of the 1970s, Calgary Jewish News expanded beyond its initial purpose. In 1979, it published articles in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish, [10] reflecting the growth and diversity of the community; in 1980, it began subscribing for the first time to the Jewish Telegraphic News Service, [11] and also published a 24-page edition, its largest ever.
The Jewish Post was in direct heated competition with the Winnipeg-based Western Jewish News established by Sam Berg in 1926, just a few weeks after establishment of The Post. The Jewish Post was also in rivalry with Der Yiddishe Vorte (also known as The Israelite Press ), a Yiddish-language daily that started in 1911 that after many years was ...
Jews first came to the Prairie Provinces of Western Canada in 1877. [5] Although there were only about 3,000 Jews in Winnipeg (Western Canada’s largest city) in 1905 out of a total population of some 80,000 people, [6] Arthur Chiel notes that “the Jews of Manitoba early desired a press of their own” [7] to such an extent that in 1914, the Canadian Israelite (founded in 1910) became the ...