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... In this video, David Shafran explains how the Canadian Jewish Congress helped him find housing and employment when he first arrived in ...
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Order-in-Council 1647 grants permission for Jewish war orphans to enter Canada. Between 1947 and 1949, 1,123 Jewish orphans ... for the orphans' support through the work of the Canadian Jewish Congress. About 70% of the youth arriving through this program ...
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Vancouver is home to Canada's third largest Jewish community. It traces its roots back to the 1870s when a series of gold ... faced with a lack of affordable housing and funding from the Canadian Jewish Congress, which was focused on larger groups arriving in the ...
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... in Regina as a war orphan and the help he received from the Canadian Jewish Congress. He lived with his friend at a Jewish family's home for a year ...
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During the war, the Canadian Jewish community was represented in refugee matters by the United Jewish Relief Agencies (UJRA), an arm of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) based in Montreal. Saul Hayes was the Executive Director. ...
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... Despite the evidence of the enormity of the Holocaust , Canadian public opinion remained hostile towards Jews arriving from Europe's ... although these programs were selective and designed to keep Jewish entries to a minimum. Few Holocaust survivors slipped in to Canada as ...
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... Sol Kanee, Chairman of the Canadian Jewish Congress (Western Region) in a displaced persons camp with orphans ...
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During the Holocaust , the Canadian Jewish Congress joined forces with other refugee advocacy groups and prominent ...
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... the 303 families and 72 single men admitted to Canada were Jewish families who settled on farms in South-Western Ontario. There is no way ... Hebrew Association provided aid to refugee farmers, and the Canadian Jewish Congress' (CJC) refugee committee assisted Ontario families ...
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... entry to skilled workers in displaced persons camps. The Canadian Jewish Congress and predominantly Jewish textile industry devise a plan known ...
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