The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (CIJR) is a unique, independent, Montreal-based academic think-tank, devoted to bringing objective, up-to-date data on and analysis of Israel, the Middle East, and Jewish world-related issues to the media, to our students and university campuses, and to the Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

MISSION
The Institute’s ultimate aim is to strengthen public understanding of Jewish Israel as a progressive, democratic society in its difficult Middle Eastern context, and of Jewish world issues generally.

PUBLICATIONS
In the fall of 2000, CIJR inaugurated its DAILY ISRANET BRIEFING e-mail service to counter anti-Israel propaganda, and to keep the public and our readers informed of daily issues affecting the Jewish people. Each daily Briefing—now nearing the 2,000th issue and read by over 60,000 people worldwide—consists of multiple outstanding, thought-provoking opinion pieces, articles, or documents, on current issues. A weekly French-language Communiqué Isranet bulletin is also available.

CIJR’s respected ISRAFAX quarterly magazine is distributed across Canada and internationally. The editors of ISRAFAX include key articles from major international newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, official documents, and websites with varying perspectives on important issues. The Israeli and Arab media are also scanned for timely reports, opinion, and documents.

STUDENTS
CIJR also supports the acclaimed student-written Dateline: Middle East magazine, distributed on campuses across Canada. The Institute is implementing, for 2007-08, the new Student Israel-Advocacy Seminars Program, a year-long training initiative to counter the worsening on-campus anti-Israelism and anti-Zionism. CIJR also offers several summer and academic-year student internships.

MIDDLE EAST & JEWISH WORLD DATABANK
The DataBank, unique in Canada, and accessible on CIJR’s website , is a vast archive of Israel, Middle East, and Jewish world-related materials. It holds thousands of items on all aspects of Israel’s society, regional politics and issues, as well as Canadian- and U.S.-related materials. Registered CIJR members can, free of charge, search the DataBank’s holdings by keyword, author, source, or by alphabetical subject-index.

SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA
The Institute’s regular Insider Briefing seminars and Community Colloquia feature its own and other experts on Israel-, Middle East- and Jewish-world issues. Recent speakers include noted journalist and political analyst Yossi Klein Halevi; Palestinian Media Watch Director, Itamar Marcus; Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman; Commentary magazine founder and editor-at-large, Norman Podhoretz; terrorism expert, Steven Emerson, former Israeli IDF Chief of Staff, General Moshe Ya’alon, and former CIA director James Woolsey.

CIJR ON-LINE
Our Internet site allows you to browse through CIJR’s new online DataBank, read recent ISRAFAX issues, access research materials, and sign up for the Isranet Briefings.

“CIJR is a world-class, Israel-related think-tank, a unique, powerful, responsive resource speaking directly to the community on issues of concern to Israel and the Jewish people”
—Prof. Frederick Krantz, Director, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research