Postponed. Na’amat is a charitable organization that supports Women and Children primarily in Israel and Canada. We provide day cares,…
Toronto high school students are spending the day at Fort York to learn about the start of the Second World…
David Birnbaum, the MNA for the D’Arcy-McGee riding in Montreal, rose in the Quebec legislature recently to pay tribute to…
It is with great pleasure that Ellin — the granddaughter of one of Ottawa’s founding Jewish families, the Lieffs —…
A Toronto artist’s year-long quest to learn the identity of the gregarious Jewish war veteran whose portrait she’d painted last year, brought her and the canvas to a boardroom at Baycrest Hospital last Sunday. There, at the regular monthly meeting of the Royal Canadian Legion Wingate Branch 256, comprising Jewish Second World War and Korean War veterans, the portrait of Jerry Rosenberg found a permanent home.
In 2017, Canadian Jewish war hero David Hart and his wife travelled to Dieppe, France with Veterans Affairs Canada in…
They both grew up in pre-war Toronto, although one came from the poor neighbourhood known as The Ward, while the other came from a nicer neighbourhood near the Beaches. Both served in the Second World War, and it isn’t hard to see why they’d never met: Lt.- Col. Norman Cohen served as a navigator in the RCAF and was posted to England and then to Burma, while Lorne Winer was with the Royal Canadian Artillery and served in England and then through Normandy and Northwestern Europe after D-Day until long after V-E Day.