Ellin Bessner

Friday is an official day of mourning and remembrance in British Columbia for the #filipino community members and other victims of last week's car ramming attack at Vancouver's #LapuLapuFestival. How Canada's Jewish community is "walking alongside" Filipino friends, colleagues in https://t.co/joXzKpQ2mU

Did you know at least 27 Jewish candidates are running for today's 🇨🇦#Election2025 ? In some ridings with large ✡️ populations, the 2 main contenders duking it out aren't Jewish but are strong supporters of our community. On today's @TheCJN Daily, we unpack the key races to watch https://t.co/Q9ZWyyWSx7

While many Toronto-area Jewish leaders explain why they feel abandoned the @liberal_party when it comes to #Antisemitism and support for #Israel after Oct. 7, will that translate into a widespread swing in votes to the @CPC_HQ in Monday's election? Thanks to @CBCTheNational https://t.co/NCkmwrflvS

How will Jewish Canada vote in Monday's federal election? It's complicated: domestic antisemitism + Canada's relationship with Israel are weighing heavily on voters' minds since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the IDF's military response. But so are economic issues and https://t.co/IE0BGrcpMT

80 yrs ago, April 15, 1945, the notorious Nazi death camp #BergenBelsen (where #annefrank died) was liberated by Allied troops. To their horror, British #artillery crews discovered about 60,000 deathly ill survivors+10,000 corpses. It was a sight and smell that the late https://t.co/CewpinDzpJ

Even @cher the iconic singer @MargaretAtwood have supported the efforts to #FreeLucy and other zoo elephants 🐘, as mentioned in this new film "Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants", whose Canadian director feels animal rights are also a Jewish commandment. On @TheCJN.

Ellin Bessner @ebessner

Just before #Passover comes a new 🇨🇦 film urging the release of 2 dozen zoo elephants in Canada, especially Lucy, the iconic 50-yr-old Asian female at @CityofEdmonton's zoo. Fern Levitt, director of "Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants" went undercover to film around the world, https://t.co/UYONiUMPEH

Just before #Passover comes a new 🇨🇦 film urging the release of 2 dozen zoo elephants in Canada, especially Lucy, the iconic 50-yr-old Asian female at @CityofEdmonton's zoo. Fern Levitt, director of "Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants" went undercover to film around the world, https://t.co/UYONiUMPEH

A new @StatCan_eng report on hate crimes handled by Canadian police–counted 4,777 total, including 900 hate crimes against Jews in 2023—contains some disturbing findings: ✖️ 72 % don't get solved, though police already know more than half of the alleged suspects, who are repeat https://t.co/EanHrLhzFq

For decades, Canada has held more than 1 m. pages of Nazi war-criminal investigation files secret. But prof. Jared McBride at @UCLA and his students have found more than 1,000 historic @rcmpgrcpolice war crimes pages—all freely available online. They appear to match the https://t.co/jOOCmgFRNW

How Canadians living in Israel could impact this month's🇨🇦#Election2025 results back home.–thanks to Elliot Gluck, a Vancouver native now interning in Tel Aviv, with his new, non-partisan website https://t.co/Fb0ApeVxbK offering to help expats in 🇮🇱navigate the @ElectionsCan_E https://t.co/J0QDWoTvwk

Some Canadian Jewish business owners "deeply, deeply concerned" about U.S. trade war, with possible April 3 new auto tariffs on Made in 🇨🇦 cars. With 128,000 autoworkers, mostly in Ontario, big box furniture&appliance chain @Teppermans fears autoworker layoffs will mean budget https://t.co/ZKhp3oMG7M

RT @ABJewishNews: Is it safe to return to northern Israel’s border towns? Canadians are divided - https://t.co/0nJ7JxM688 https://t.co/Ase…

Why Canada's Conservative leader @PierrePoilievre will cancel funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency @UNRWA which has been linked to H*m*s' Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis. Plus jail antisemitic rioters here in Canada, beef up security for the Jewish community, keep suspects https://t.co/NDVhay9kBF

Some disturbing & clearly antisemitic incidents happened at Toronto's #AlQudsDay protest Sunday. About 2,000 anti-Israel protesters turned up. Calls to ban these events in cities across Canada were especially loud this year, but civic leaders were silent. While @TorontoPolice had https://t.co/EqboDTWFl3

Some disturbing images from the Toronto Al-Quds anti-Israel protest rally Sunday. About 2,000 people called for Free Palestine, demonized Israel, displayed flags supporting Iran’s Ayatollah, chanted From The River to the Sea. A fee people screamed “Go Back To Europe”. About 25 https://t.co/xPbDl94cSF

The Crown prosecutor has already filed a motion to appeal a decision by an Ontario justice of the peace on Monday March 17 to release on bail the 32-year old suspect who Toronto police charged with 29 counts in an alleged terrorism-related spree of attacks and threats against the https://t.co/0bGL66xuAT