On Wednesday, January 27th, the Montreal borough council of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (CDN-NDG) will be voting on a motion to adopt the dangerously misleading International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Far from protecting Jews against real antisemitism, the IHRA definition only serves to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel, thereby...

Take action! Click here to send a letter to the CRA This year marks 120 years since the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was founded in 1901 to raise funds for the colonization of Palestine. It marks 54 years since JNF Canada was granted charitable status by the Canada Revenue Agency,...

Click here to register! Join the Independent Jewish Voices' Online Chavurah on Sunday, January 24th at 1:00pm EST for a discussion and film screening of the documentary The Village Under the Forest. We will be exploring the role of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine...

Independent Jewish Voices Canada  Job Posting Membership Engagement Coordinator Salary: $40,370 inclusive of 10% in lieu of benefits. Duration: One-year full-time contract with the possibility of renewal. Location: Remotely from anywhere in Canada. Teleconferencing and travel are required Closing Date: Friday, January 29, 2021 5PM EST. Who we are:  Independent...

As we dive into 2021, we want to highlight some of Independent Jewish Voices' achievements from the last year. It goes without saying that 2020 was a challenge on so many levels. But we pulled through with some amazing victories, and we couldn't have done it without all of our members,...

An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defence Forces Made a Nation Saturday, January 9th, 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT Click here to register! The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that “the whole nation is the army”....