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Hate mail incidents: Premier Notley statement

Premier Rachel Notley issued the following statement after two Edmonton synagogues received anti-Semitic hate mail during Hanukkah. “Anti-Semitism has no place in Alberta or Canada….



Minister Uppal to join the Fight against anti-Semitism on the International Stage

May 11, 2015—Ottawa— Canada will join the international community in developing a global plan to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of racial and ethnic hatred….


Children of Bergen-Belsen survivors gather to warn: Never forget

By Toby Axelrod HANOVER, Germany (JTA) — Seventy years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops, some 100 people personally touched by the…


With fewer survivors around, Holocaust education is in transition

By Penny Schwartz, BOSTON (JTA) – On a recent morning, a group of seventh-graders in Natick, Massachusetts, was absorbed in a video of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s acceptance…