Ellin Bessner
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Journalist, Author. Host of The CJN's flagship news podcast "North Star". Outlander Fan. Canadian Jews in #WWll
Toronto
Joined January 2009
While U.S. envoys @jaredkushner @SteveWitkoff arrive in Israel to prop up the shaky ceasefire with Hamas, Israel's former antisemitism special envoy Michal @CotlerWunsh warns there is no cease fire in sight for the *8th front": a surging public information campaign of
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Did you catch the #Sukkah erected in @cityofkingston's most iconic public space, Springer Market Square? For the 3rd year in a row, the city's #Jewish community hosted visitors for a week in the temporary booth to celebrate the annual fall festival of Sukkot. Among the many
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While Ottawa native Jacqui Vital is "glad for them", the families of the remaining 48 Israeli hostages, set to be returned in a few days by Hamas, she has unfinished business with @MarkJCarney, Canada's Prime Minister. Vital's daughter Adi, 33, was one of the eight Canadians
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EXCLUSIVE: The team behind the award-winning documentary 'The Road Between Us' will donate proceeds to rebuilding Kibbutz Nahal Oz, the filmmakers tell The CJN in an interview.
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The Canadian documentary, briefly banned from TIFF, opens in theatres Oct. 3.
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Prime Minister @MarkJCarney 's government unveiled a series of planned changes to Canada’s criminal code on Friday–aimed at cracking down on the explosion of hate crimes across the country, mostly against Jews. The “Combatting Hate Act” will make it a crime when hateful
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Why the family of #DanMarkel, the slain 🇨🇦 law professor killed in a contract killing arranged by his ex-mother-in-law Donna Adelson, says the recently convicted Florida grandmother is "a curse". The Markels asked the Tallahassee judge on Sept. 4 for the maximum penalty. While
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The @TorontoPolice have charged a protester with obstructing a police officer + causing a disturbance after demonstrations outside the @TIFF_NET screening of the #Oct7Massacre film by🇨🇦director @BarryAvrich. Inside, TIFF's CEO #CameronBailey apologized to the #Jewish community
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As the @UN General Assembly gets to work today in New York, beginning its 80th anniversary session, there will be a new pair of Canadian eyes keeping tabs on how the world’s parliament handles the #Israel #Palestinians file. Former 🇨🇦senator @LindaFrum, a pro-Israel human rights
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Ottawa's Jewish community leaders demand more action from politicians, including better law enforcement, after a Jewish woman was stabbed at a kosher Loblaws store in the 🇨🇦 capital. But despite the sense of fear & anger after the hate-motivated attack by a Cornwall resident,
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Montreal’s Jewish community reacts to Friday's violent filmed park attack: 'Do something that will make the community feel safer!' leaders urge. That’s the message from Rabbi Saul Emanuel, executive director of Montreal’s JewishCommunity Council, in the wake of a “heinous” attack
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Why Montreal's Jewish #LGBTQI community is urging a big turnout for this Sunday's @FierteMTLPride parade, after the org. reversed a ban on their participation over the #IsraelPalestineconflict. The walk back is being seen by some ✡️ 🏳️🌈 advocates as "a big victory"-although one
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With the guilty plea by the former @ottawacity lawyer who splashed red paint on the 🇨🇦National Holocaust memorial, we can now reveal the timeline and motivation for his crime of mischief. Until now, the ban on publication imposed by the court prevented the media from reporting
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On July 25, Iain Aspenlieder pleaded guilty in court to a charge of mischief for defacing Canada’s National Holocaust Monument. Before dawn on June 9, Aspenlieder—a former lawyer with the @ottawacity– cycled to the monument with 3 cans of bright red paint and wrote the words
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In her first media interview since stepping down early as 🇨🇦's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, @DeborahLyonsSE explains why she left. There were no medical or mental health issues that prompted her decision, announced July 17. But
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Why this Canadian doctor resigned from the College of Family Physicians of Canada @CFPC_e after their official peer-reviewed @CFPJournal published what he considered a "deeply offensive" pro-#Hezbollah article about 200 men who were injured in the exploding pagers operation last
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Today, July 18, Jewish communities will mark the 31st anniversary of the #AMIA31Años terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which Hezbollah, backed by Iran, murdered 85 people, wounded hundreds more at the city’s Jewish Federation building. Until Oct. 7, 2023, it was
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Did Canada's elections to the World #Zionist Congress get marred by the same kind of alleged massive voting fraud that plagued the @AMZ4israel vote in the U.S.A? Probably not, @TheCJN has learned, but that doesn't mean there are no issues. Which is why the final results of the
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