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In the News (Wed 3 Dec 08)

  
  Fredericton, New Brunswick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fredericton is located in the middle of the Saint John River valley, with most of the city's post-war suburban development occurring on gently sloping hills on either side of the river, although the downtown core is flat and lies low to the river.
Fredericton's status as an educational centre is evident in the city's two degree granting universities: the University of New Brunswick and St.
Fredericton has a mayor-council and non-partisan form of government, with the mayor and council serving fixed four-year terms (three years until 2004), and elections held in May. The last election was in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fredericton,_New_Brunswick   (5933 words)

  
 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Until Devon (a town incorporated in 1917 after the merger of the village's of St. Mary's Ferry and Gibson) was amalgamated with Fredericton in 1945, the corporate limit of the city of Fredericton was restrained to the south side.
Fredericton High School, which was once the largest school in the Commonwealth of Nations until the construction of Leo Hayes High School in 1999, primarily serves students on the south side.
Fredericton is located just off the Trans-Canada Highway, which bypasses it to the south.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Fredericton,_New_Brunswick   (5745 words)

  
 Chaos as Metaphor for the Study of Social Processes
Of course, in any given community in which this sort of fragmentation is occurring, factors ignored in our metaphor will influence the rate at which fragmentation develops and the proportion of those who are drawn towards one or the other of the attractors.
In this kind of fragmentation, occurring during the earliest phase of integration of the communities, altercentricity is demonstrated by such things as a willingness to incorporate the practices of both Persian and Canadian Bahá'ís in communal worship, and by efforts to overcome the language barrier in order to develop deeper relational bonds within the community.
If each Bahá'í in the community were asked to name which of these issues attracts more of her or his attention, the set of those who name a particular issue would likely have some of the fractal characteristics of the basin of attraction in figure 2.
bahai-library.org /conferences/chaos.metaphor.html   (8928 words)

  
 SNN Student Magazine - November 2002 - A Glitch in Time
Four high school students from Dinslaken, Germany recently came to Fredericton High School to present a brief history of the Jewish community that once flourished in their hometown.
The students each presented a different aspect of Jewish life in their town before 1939, the year when Dinslaken was occupied by the Nazis.
Fredericton students appreciated the tangible, personal information that their German counterparts provided on Dinslaken, a town that most of the students had never heard of before.
www.snn-rdr.ca /snn/2002nov/germany.html   (232 words)

  
 Sgoolai Israel Synagogue Home Page
Fredericton's Jewish community is small, but thriving under the leadership of Rabbi Kenneth Zisook and his wife, Shelley.
To that end, the Fredericton Jewish community is ready to offer assistance to Jewish families in Canada or abroad wishing to settle in Fredericton.
At the present time the members of the Jewish community are entrepreneurs or employed by both the government and the university.
personal.nbnet.nb.ca /sgoolai   (821 words)

  
 CBC News: Water levels falling in Fredericton area
FREDERICTON - Water levels have begun to recede in some parts of New Brunswick, but water overflowing the banks of the St. John River are still keeping many people trapped in their homes.
The floods, which began last week between Fredericton and Saint John, have severely flooded basements, forced dozens of people from their homes, closed roads and caused thousands of dollars of damage.
The access roads to their community are covered in water and transportation crews have put up barriers to prevent people from trying to drive across.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/05/02/Fredericton-flood050502.html   (1021 words)

  
 Ecumenism / Oecuménisme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Jewish leaders have welcomed the German government's plan to give the country's Jewish community a legal status equal to that of the main Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches.
Eighty men and women of Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths attended the conference that addressed the topic of "The Stranger in Judaism, Christianity, Islam." There were lectures from the perspectives of the three religions by scholars and community leaders, presentation of Yiddish songs and a cabaret show.
In many Jewish circles, he said, the expectation is not so much for one man to usher in the kingdom of God, but for a new humanity that would give birth to the reign of justice and peace.
www.oecumenisme.ca /archive/revue/2003_03_en_bref_en.htm   (5141 words)

  
 BAJS British Association for Jewish Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Jewish Studies Program is an all-university program in the College of Arts and Letters and focuses on the transformation in modern Jewish life from Europe to two new centers, North America and Israel.
Jewish Studies works with eight departments in four colleges in the university and also with the university's leading study-abroad program.
The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit at the University of Oxford in association with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is offering a two-year Junior Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies (possibly renewable for one further year) tenable from October 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter.
www.art.man.ac.uk /RELTHEOL/JEWISH/BAJS/news.html   (2023 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The community, which peaked in the 1920s at 1,400, has dwindled to 85-90 active synagogue members, all in advanced years.
Saint John’s Jewish community was founded in 1858 with the arrival of Solomon Hart and his wife from England.
The Jewish museum makes proud mention of the community’s “Golden Age,” from the 1920s to the 1960s, when there was a Jewish troop of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, a local B’nai Brith chapter and 60 kids at the Hebrew school.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=2629   (1021 words)

  
 The Atlantic Jewish Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Historical Background The Jewish Community in Fredericton is more recent than Moncton or Saint John.
The congregation was incorporated in 1929; however, a synagogue was not built in Fredericton until 1934 and the cemetery was not purchased until 1943.
The Fredericton community helped provide kosher food and other comforts as well as some religious instruction to the internees, visiting them periodically.
www.theajc.ns.ca /fredericton.html   (249 words)

  
 CBC New Brunswick - Finding faith - Your essays - Deborah van den Hoonaard
As a Jewish girl growing up in New York in the early 1960s, my heroes were the freedom riders who were the front-line activists in the Civil Rights Movement.
Because of diverse nature of the Bahá’í community and Bahá’u’ll áh’s exhortation to “consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship,” I have worked to befriend people from all backgrounds.
The world is in the midst of a catastrophe characterized by a breakdown of family, community, and global society.
www.cbc.ca /nb/features/finding-faith/essays-vanden.html   (1285 words)

  
 ETF2005-0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
B’nai Brith’s leadership meets regularly with Canadian politicians and government ministers to discuss issues of concern to the Jewish community, and to present the organization’s positions on the key issues of the day, both national and international.
It advocates on behalf of Jewish communities in distress, and intervenes at both the governmental level and at international fora on a wide range of issues, whether political, religious, or cultural.
The Jewish Tribune, the weekly newspaper published by B’nai Brith, covers the key issues of relevance to the Canadian Jewish community.
www.bnaibrith.ca /ETF2005-0.html   (1059 words)

  
 CJC
We are the only Jewish community centre and synagogue in the eastern suburbs of Vancouver, serving Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Surrey, Langley and as far east as Mission.
The Thornhill Community Shul is the centre of a growing community of friendly, warm people with the deisre to grow in their Jewish knowledge and spiritual awareness.
Agudas Israel is the oldest Jewish community in the province and is proud of its tolerant welcome to all Jews of all backgrounds.
www.cjc.ca /template.php?action=synagogue&Language=EN   (7283 words)

  
 NJSCA Resources and Information: ArtsPlan NJ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This community educational facility offers classes in fine arts, craft and movement as well as operating a gallery and sponsoring a concert series.
Westminster Conservatory of Music is the community music school of Westminster Choir College, serving the Central New Jersey/Eastern Pennsylvania area with private and group instruction for students 18 months through senior citizens including traditional and Suzuki methods of Kindermusik.
Multidisciplinary arts-in-education program that involves community members from the educational, artistic, corporate, private and governmental sectors in promoting, among teenage students in Sussex County, an expanding appreciation of the arts.
www.njartscouncil.org /working/resource4.html   (3751 words)

  
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Jewish university students attending UNB no longer need to worry about losing touch with their religion.
The main objective of JSS is to ensure that all Jewish students attending UNB are given an individual invitation to attend services, receive Shabbat dinners, and acquire an outlet in which they can study and discuss their religion among fellow community members.
The JSS encourages all Jewish students to contact Sgoolai Israel Synagogue, either by phone at 454-9698 or 455-2559, or in person at 168 Westmorland.
www.unb.ca /bruns/0304/03/opinion/jewish.html   (239 words)

  
 Aid from Private Sources | Gratz College
Qualifying Students: Graduate students in Jewish Education and Jewish Communal Service who are interested in careers in the Jewish Community Centers and Social Work.
This award is not available to individuals who are already employed in Jewish communal service or education, or to those enrolled in a rabbinical or cantorial program.
A forum for discussing major issues of importance to the Jewish community from a variety of perspectives on modern Jewish life.
www.gratz.edu /page3311.aspx   (1585 words)

  
 CJC
The Atlantic Jewish Council also sponsored a group of six students and two teachers from Dinslaken, Germany, to speak on the history of the Jewish community in that city and specifically about the fate of that community during the Shoah.
RJCO (Regional Jewish Communities of Ontario) Holocaust Teacher Training Program is committed to the study of the Holocaust and to the enhancement of human-rights education.
The exhibit focuses on such areas as the roles of women in the resistance movement, in the post-war ingathering of Jewish children, and in the voluntary units in Eretz Yisrael when it was under British mandate.
www.cjc.ca /template.php?Language=EN&action=holocaust&Type=2   (1169 words)

  
 AOL Canada | Entertainment | Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A Price Above Rubies is the passionate, provocative tale of a young woman in a closed Hasidic community who discovers - and must come to grips with - the power of her own sexuality and individuality.
Sonia's life has turned out exactly as her parents planned: she has married a young scholar and holy man, given birth to a baby boy and settled into a decent, spiritual life within a close-knit, Orthodox Jewish community in New York.
Haunted by ghosts of deeply-buried passions, Sonia struggles to balance her family and community life with her newfound career in the jewelry business as she learns to define her own self-worth.
www.tribute.ca /aol/search/movie_spec.asp?m_id=111   (144 words)

  
 Jewish Student Services of Fredericton, New Brunswick
After a year of succession planning and transition, the Jewish Students Services is excited to announce a brand new executive of dedicated UNB and STU students to lead the Fredericton Jewish student community.
Jeffrey has brought on board many new students, and is always open to hearing your thoughts and ideas on how to improve the Jewish student experience in Fredericton.
Jewish Student Services of Fredericton, New Brunswick - Serving Fredericton's Jewish high school and university population from Sgoolai Israel Synagogue.
www.unbf.ca /clubs/jss/news.htm   (137 words)

  
 Anglicans Online!: General Synod 1995
The theme of this Synod is "prepare the way," words in the Book of Isaiah which were written during the exile of Jewish captives from their homeland by a prophet who called people to prepare the way for God who would turn upside down all the suffering and sorrow of the present reality.
In response to concern that the workload of volunteer committee chairs may be increased, the Committee suggests that the chair could choose a delegate to the Mission Coordination Group and that the representative of a standing committee to the Council need not be the committee's chair.
REFERRED to the Council of General Synod a Memorial on the Discipline Canon from the Diocesan Synod of Fredericton requesting that the Council prepare, for consideration at the next General Synod, a motion to amend Canon XVIII to adopt proof beyond a reasonable doubt as the required degree of proof in disciplinary proceedings.
justus.anglican.org /~maffin/canada/gensynod/gswrap.htm   (8480 words)

  
 Archive | February 1998 | Tidbits
Parents in two tiny Acadian communities say their children run and hide at the sight of a Mountie and they want the New Brunswick government to find out why.
The Committee for Jewish Lineage is compiling a computerized registry of the world's estimated 10 million Jews to ensure the "purity of the Jewish community."
After years of researching Jewish genealogy, Eisenstein is confident he can weed out wannabe Jews, reducing the risks of intermarriage and the specter of assimilation.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0298tidbits.htm   (3424 words)

  
 Hebrew Christian/Sabbath Keepers
Its stated aims are to educate Evangelicals concerning the Jewish origins of their Christian faith, and to convert Jews to a belief in Yeshua, as the Messiah promised in the Jewish scriptures.
Some Jewish groups whose beliefs stress the messianic aspects are known in the literature as "messianic Jews", but that is not the topic of this article.
Many Protestant and Catholic churches have Jewish converts among their members, some of whom still proudly consider themselves ethnically and culturally Jewish, but the Messianic movement generally regards as "Messianic Jews" only those who are affiliated to organizations and/or congregations that claim to be specifically part of the Messianic movement.
home.swbell.net /kelkay/hebrewchrist.html   (5997 words)

  
 August 1998
The collaboration of two scholars, one Jewish and one Christian, ensures that their evaluations are balanced and the results excellently summarised.
As the title of the book indicates, the authors seek to grapple with the accusation made in an earlier work "None is too many," criticizing the lack of significant steps to permit Jewish immigration to Canada during the 1930s and 1940s, and attributing this regrettable inactivity to the prevalence of antisemitism in Canada.
After 1961, when the doors were closed to outside support and influence, the LDS church stagnated as a rather isolated and closed community, striving to avoid confrontation, despite bureaucratic provocation and harassment by government officials.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/akz/akz9808.htm   (3545 words)

  
 Fitness facilities have yet to come of age on Sympatico / MSN Powered by MediResource
Most community parks and recreation calendars offer a variety of classes for older adults such as aquafit, tai chi or yoga.
Clubs that serve the community - YMCAs or Jewish Community Centres - have also responded to the health and wellness needs of mature adults.
Soloway Jewish Community Centre in Ottawa has several classes geared towards those aged 50 and up.
mediresource.sympatico.ca /health_news_detail_pf.asp?news_id=5218   (1141 words)

  
 Hypocrisy and Democracy -- Free Speech, November 1999
The Canadian Jewish Congress told Mayor Brown that they were outraged by his proclamation -- much as Senator Trent Lott was outraged by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's comment about the state of organized religion in America.
What makes the case of Fredericton especially noteworthy is that last year Mayor Brown initially refused to proclaim a "gay pride weekend" when requested to do so by a homosexual group.
They took the mayor to court and obtained a court order requiring him to proclaim the "gay pride weekend." They were denouncing him as a "bigot" for his initial refusal to make the "gay pride weekend" proclamation requested by the homosexuals.
www.natall.com /free-speech/fs9911b.html   (2643 words)

  
 SJM seeks 'Bachelorette'
Born and raised in Laval, a municipality of Montreal, Hersh's mother, Bryna, is a longtime employee of Federation CJA, the Montreal Jewish federation.
He has played hockey most of his life and made it as high as the Montreal Canadiens' farm team in Fredericton, New Bruns-wick, where he played from 1995-1997.
Hersh has volunteered with fund-raisers for the Jewish community.
www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/040123/sjm.shtml   (664 words)

  
 Herzl Kashetsky
His journey was not simply an artistic or experiential quest, but also a spiritual pilgrimage to understand the personal dimensions of tragic events" (1997).
Kashetsky is also vice-chairman of the Saint John Advisory Board and art advisor of the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum.
In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick and a commemorative medal for outstanding artistic contribution to the community, for Canada's 125th anniversary of Confederation.
art-history.concordia.ca /eea/artists/kashetsky.html   (777 words)

  
 The Canadian Association for Free Expression - Free Speech Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Fromm was accused, falsely, of being "a guest speaker at meetings commemorating Adolf Hitler" (Telegraph Journal, April 10, 1997) In a pirouette of chop logic, Bernie Farber stated: "The Canadian Association of [sic] Free Expression is such a misnomer.
Fromm was scheduled to address a seminar at the Fredericton Inn [April 19], but motel management pulled the plug on the event [April 15] after Prof.
Their behaviour is an affront to thinking Canadian men and women and a betrayal of the free and open communication that they should be in the front lines defending.
www.canadianfreespeech.com /newsletters/1997/fsm_0697.html   (1181 words)

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