Police are investigating after the Sgoolai Israel synagogue in Fredericton was vandalized on Saturday morning, as glass was shattered in the door of the building's entrance.
A group of former Canadian Jewish Congress senior leaders from coast to coast, as well as some new young leadership, have come together to establish the Canadian Jewish Community Forum
The new group is a federally incorporated all-volunteer organization.
The group s founders say the new organization will provide a forum to educate, discuss and debate issues of interest and concern, both regional and national, that impact Canada, the Canadian Jewish community and the welfare of the people of Israel.
The process to launch the group began in January, with virtual meetings. The group hopes to engage the former leadership of CJC and new young leaders to honour, learn and draw from the legacy of Congress, a body that worked and fought for social justice in Canada, says a CJCF statement. The CJC understood that making Canada a peaceful, inclusive and just society is good for all of its peoples. It is the prime objective of the CJCF to take lessons from the past and use them to inform communal policy in the present and future, to promote Jewish values of
FREDERICTON, N.B. The escalating violence in the Middle East prompted a number of rallies across the Maritimes, including a large gathering at Fredericton City Hall on Sunday. More than 150 people gathered in downtown Fredericton on Sunday afternoon to show their solidarity with Palestinians. “In Canada we enjoy a lot of things that people don’t really enjoy in the Middle East, like freedom of speech and respect for human life and human rights,” says Amir Rached. “I have family in Palestine and Gaza, and I have family in the West Bank, and they’re living in fear all the time of losing their homes, losing their land and losing their loved ones,” says rally organizer Laila Abuamar.