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Voting starts for Canadian Jews to join the World Zionist Congress. Here’s what’s at stake

JL;DR SUMMARY With the World Zionist Congress elections underway, Canadian Jews are now able to vote for representatives who will shape the future policies and budget allocations of major Israeli Zionist institutions. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Tags

ZionismDiasporaReligious PluralismJewish National FundJewish AgencyCanadian JewsElectionsWorld Zionist CongressKeren HayesodHaredi Influence

Places mentioned

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"That's what it sounded like recently in the small chapel at Toronto's Beth Tzedek Synagogue."
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
"Theodor Herzl founded the World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, where delegates met and agreed that Zionism should become a formal movement to find a homeland for the Jewish people."
Israel
"So while the Congress is made up mostly of Israelis and American Jews, who get allocated the majority of the seats, the rest of the diaspora divvies up what's left."
Poland
"On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes an unprecedented exhibition about one of history's darkest moments."
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