The letters page of today's National Post includes a submission by one Marilyn Shapiro of Thornhill. She responds to a previous letter by Professor Yakov Rabkin which defends Independent Jewish Voices against attack by the Canadian Jewish Congress. After falsely describing IJV as made up of "anti-Israel Jews and non-Jews" she goes after Rabkin claiming that he failed to mention what she calls his "deep connection to IJV" and goes on at length to detail an internet search she conducted which reveals that Rabkin is a member of the group.
Hypocritically, while she herself defends the CJC and attacks Rabkin for his omission, Shapiro fails to mention her own affiliation which is easily uncoverable through a quick internet search.
Here is a picture taken from the November 2009 edition of CJC's online newsletter Congress Amcha appearing under the heading "Queen's Park reception". From left to right are Marilyn Shapiro; Wendy Lampert, CJC Director of Community Relations; Len Rudner, CJC Ontario Regional Director; Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty; Igor Ellyn, CJC Board of Directors; David Katz, Chair CJC Charities Committee. Obviously Shaprio has what she would call a "deep connection" to the Canadian Jewish Congress.
To paraphrase Ms Shapiro's letter, why did she not disclose her obvious association with this Zionist group? I guess she must be ashamed of her association. Or does she have something to hide?
Perhaps it's that, according to page 12 of the CJC's January 2009 newsletter, Shapiro was a Canadian delegate to last year's meeting of the CJC's parent body, the World Jewish Congress? A "deep connection" indeed.
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Marilyn Shapiro should have mentioned her affiliation with the Canadian Jewish Congress even if she had not written on behalf of the CJC. This is equivalent to someone writing a letter under the name of S. Harper (Calgary).
Officialdom is nothing new. The CJC likes to think that it represents all Jews in Canada. Scouts Canada is the official scouting organization. There's official sponsors of the upcoming disastrous Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There's the official sponsor of some winter event taking place in BC between 2009 and 2011. I wonder if it is Lululemon. I wonder if the Conservative Party will start calling itself, "The official party of loyal Canadians." Thank goodness the Roman Catholic church doesn't call itself the official Christian church. Cough, cough.
Speaking of officialdom, while Israel is the so-called homeland of the Jews. More Jews live in the United States than in Israel. Quite a few Russian Jews immigrate to Israel and then onto the United States or Canada. The Russians head to Israel to make Aliyah (sp?) and then head west to the US to or Canada. If they could only make it to Hawaii to make "Aloha."
Marilyn Shapiro should have mentioned her affiliation with the Canadian Jewish Congress even if she had not written on behalf of the CJC. This is equivalent to someone writing a letter under the name of S. Harper (Calgary).
Officialdom is nothing new. The CJC likes to think that it represents all Jews in Canada. Scouts Canada is the official scouting organization. There's official sponsors of the upcoming disastrous Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There's the official sponsor of some winter event taking place in BC between 2009 and 2011. I wonder if it is Lululemon. I wonder if the Conservative Party will start calling itself, "The official party of loyal Canadians." Thank goodness the Roman Catholic church doesn't call itself the official Christian church. Cough, cough.
Speaking of officialdom, while Israel is the so-called homeland of the Jews. More Jews live in the United States than in Israel. Quite a few Russian Jews immigrate to Israel and then onto the United States or Canada. The Russians head to Israel to make Aliyah (sp?) and then head west to the US to or Canada. If they could only make it to Hawaii to make "Aloha."
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