Anti-Israel Gays
Quit Toronto Parade
TORONTO (JTA) — Queers Against Israeli
Apartheid said it will not participate in the
Toronto Pride Parade.
The group, which has raised contro-
versy with its planned participation in the
parade, announced its decision last week.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said the same
day that the city should
withhold city funds for
the event until after the
parade to ensure that
Queers Against Israeli
Apartheid does not actu-
ally march. Pride Toronto
received $123,807 from
the city last year.
Rob Ford
The city said it would
fund the parade as long
as all of the groups participating adhered
to the city's anti-discrimination policy.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid's with-
drawal was presented by the organization
as a "challenge" to Ford.
"Rob Ford wants to use us as an excuse
to cut Pride funding, even though he has
always opposed funding the parade, long
before we showed up," Queers Against
Israeli Apartheid spokesperson Elle
Flanders said in a news release. "By hold-
ing our Pride events outside of the parade,
we are forcing him to make a choice: Fund
Pride or have your real, homophobic,
right-wing agenda exposed."
The Canadian Jewish Congress CEO
Bernie Farber said, "This is a positive
step and reaffirms what Canadian Jewish
Congress has been saying all along: There
is absolutely no place in the Pride Parade
for hateful and discriminatory messages."
Rabbis Condemn Attack
On Reform Synagogue
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Fourteen Orthodox
rabbis and public figures from Ra'anana
signed a letter condemning an attack on
a Reform synagogue in the central Israel
city.
Ra'anana Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz
was among those who signed the letter.
The World Union for Progressive
Judaism (Reform) also condemned the
April 14 attack, the third time the Raanan
Synagogue has been vandalized in the past
year.
Six of the synagogue's windows were
smashed by large rocks and a black Star of
David was spray-painted on the wall above
the words "It has begun."
City officials and the Reform umbrella
group both indicated that the vandalism
pointed to Jewish religious extremists,
though police said they had no suspects.
In another incident of violence against
a non-Orthodox synagogue, youths threw
rocks at worshipers leaving a Masorti
(Conservative) synagogue in Netanya on
the Sabbath eve of April 15. The youths
appeared to be Orthodox, eyewitnesses
said.
The youths reportedly tried to enter
the building but stopped when they saw
security cameras. The building has been
attacked twice in the past.
No worshipers were injured in the
attack.
"As the non-Orthodox communities
continue to grow, the ugly face of Jewish
fundamentalism in Israel is revealed:' said
Yizhar Hess, executive director and CEO
of the Masorti movement in Israel. "Some
people just can't deal with the fact that
there is a different Judaism. These people
are hateful Jews who know nothing about
Rabbi Akiva's principle of loving your
neighbor as you love yourself"
Goldstone Retraction
Spurs Arab Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — Richard Goldstone's
retraction of key find-
ings in his report to the
United Nations on the
Gaza War has spurred
a new round of anti-
Semitism and conspir-
acy theories in the Arab
world, according to the
Anti-Defamation
League.
Richard
"Just
as
the
original
Goldstone
report was celebrated by
Arab cartoonists as 'proof' of the evil nature
of Israel and Jews, so too has the decision
by Judge Richard Goldstone to reconsider
his findings inspired another round of
hateful caricatures and stereotypes in the
Arab media," said Abraham Foxman, ADEs
national director.
"Newspapers across the Arab world
have responded to the Goldstone develop-
ments with a series of hideous caricatures,
many of them viciously anti-Semitic."
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* 6:00 p.m. -
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7:15 p.m. - Casual Shabbat Buffet
7:30 p.m. - Child care until conclusion of speaker
* 8:15 p.m. - "Cirque Arnongus"
*
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8:15 P.M.
AN EVENING WITH
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open bar
and readings
by Joel Chasnoff
What Are God's Names? A Kabbalistic Approach
To Understanding God and the Universe
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YOUNG
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YOinti Aouti
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Buddhism and Judaism: Zen with a Yiddish Heart
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