BREAKING: Israel's flagship airline @EL_AL_AIRLINES is stopping service to Toronto for good, according to travel agents and the head of the airline in Canada. More to come. Last flight is Oct. 27 out of @TorontoPearson @TheCJN
Ellin Bessner
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Ellin Bessner
@ebessner
Journalist, Author. Host of The CJN's flagship news podcast "North Star". Outlander Fan. Canadian Jews in #WWll
- An estimated 40,000 people took part in a massive Jewish community solidarity @walkforisrael in Toronto with survivors from Oct. 7 massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri and Kfar Aza. Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger also walked to show support for Israel and releasing the hostages @TheCJN
- The full story on the #fredericton high school attack on an Israeli student, now on @TheCJN. Why @premierbhiggs and others are reaching out to the Tsurkan family, who want the beating classified as an antisemitic hate crime.
- Two weeks since Canada joined other top Western donors to suspend further funding to @UNWRA, 🇨🇦lawyer @HillelNeuer of @UNWatch wants the "terrorist riddled" relief agency for #Palestinians disbanded—but admits it probably won’t be. thecjn.ca/podcasts/canad… @HonAhmedHussen
- Breaking: Embattled Canadian Human Rights Commissioner Birju Dattani will not start his new job tomorrow, says @viraniarif Canada's justice minister, after receiving the external reviewer's report on his possible antisemitic, anti-Israel track record. "While I carefully consider
- After @UNWatch's new report alleging 22 @UNRWA teachers & principals had #antisemitic views on @Facebook, the #Palestinian refugee body opened an investigation. @GAC_Corporate 🇨🇦 is giving $90 million to UNRWA. Hear @HillelNeuer on @TheCJN Daily. bit.ly/3yDE3Md
00:00 - Why this Israeli teen is staying at his @tdsb public school despite being threatened, punched over the #IsraelHamas war? To protect other Jewish kids in the school from antisemitism. @TorontoPolice hate crime unit investigating. @TheCJN Daily.
- Why #LaithMarouf hasn't paid back any of the $122K from @HeritageCanada when his contract to teach #antiracism was terminated in Sept. 2022—due to his racist, #Antisemitic tweets. And why it took so long for 🇨🇦 gov't to act. @mgeist on @TheCJN #canpoli
- Replying to @LindaFrumWe get the backstory from Mark Goldberg on how he got Laith Marouf suspended from Twitter, and why Ottawa should cancel the #antiisrael consultant's group's six-figure contract to teach anti-racism, and the money refunded.
- Replying to @ebessnerHe will be on leave. Does that mean he is actually starting, on paper, and with a paycheque? But not working? thecjn.ca/news/embattled…
- Why @fordnation's decision to not require all #healthcareworkers to be #vaccinated is risky for patients who receive care at home: top Ontario nurse @RNAO @DorisGrinspun on the relatively few nurse #antivaxxers. #ontpoli Her full interview @TheCJN Daily. bit.ly/3bCKUvI
00:00 - This 🇨🇦 man has just found 42 pieces of his father's #Dakota #WWII @RoyalAirForce plane that crashed into a farmer's field in France on #dday 1944. Why he went to thank the people who saved his dad from the Nazis. On @TheCJN Daily. @JunoBeachCentre bit.ly/3JogU5f
- "Wait for Me Daddy": Story of a Montreal Jewish soldier discovered in famous photo vancouversun.com/news/local-new… #CanadaRemembers #RemembranceDay2020 🇨🇦
