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

JL;DR SUMMARY Canadian Jews have the opportunity to impact Israel's influential Zionist organizations by voting in the World Zionist Congress elections. 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

Diaspora JewsJewish National FundCanadian JewsJewish Agency For IsraelOrthodox GroupsWorld Zionist CongressHaredi InfluenceZionist ElectionsProgressive Jewish Slates

Places mentioned

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"That's what it sounded like recently in the small chapel at Toronto's Beth Tzedek Synagogue, where about two dozen people came to learn more about the upcoming elections for the World Zionist Congress."
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
"More than a century ago, 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
"Then after Israel was founded in 1948, those institutions didn't close."
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