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Dear Friends,

Joseph ShierAt a time of great and growing threat, the call for a strong, vibrant Canadian Institute for Jewish Reseach becomes even greater than it has been over the last twenty-three years.
I do not need to tell those reading this that the struggle Israel and the West face is accompanied by a propagand war, and that a progaganda assault requires a particular response: the truth.

CIJR is the only academic think-tank in Canada that provides this response, and that does so directly to the public, Jewish and non-Jewish. Its determination to educate, to instruct, to share information, to train, to prepare Canadians, and Canadian students, for the world we and our children face, has been a result of the drive and energy of a resolute, dedicated team, which deserves great recognition and honour.

I was asked by my friend, Fred Krantz, Director of the Institute, to take over the role which Irwin Beutel has played so diligently and generously for so long, chair of CIJR. The National Board and I both accepted Fred's suggestion. I live in Toronto, and while CIJR already reaches many beyond Montreal through its Daily Briefing and Israfax publications, I hope this coming year will provide us with the opportunity to extend CIJR's reach and influence even further both within Montreal and Canada, and beyond.


We have many challenges ahead. Yasher ko'ach to Irwin, Fred, and Baruch, to their hard-working and dedicated staff, and to the many volunteers who together with them have built this unique and wonderful Institute.

May they go from strength to strength.

With best wishes,

Joseph Shier
National Chairman 

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
Prof. Frederick Krantz, Director
Prof. David Pariser, Associate Director
Joseph Shier, National Chairman
Baruch Cohen, Research Chairman
Irwin G. Beutel, Immediate Past Chairman
Jack Dym, Vice-Chairman
Thomas O. Hecht, Vice-Chairman
Amos Sochaczevski, Vice-Chairman
Evelyn Schachter, Chairman, Young Adult/Youth Board
Naomi Frankenburg, Vancouver Chairman
Joe Schlesinger, Treasurer 

 

Machla Abramovitz
Ori Bauer
Hy Beraznik
Rosanne Beraznik
Howard Bokser
Rabbi Ronnie Cahana
Jordan Charness
Randy Charness
Ariela Cotler
Manuel Dalfen
Joyce Deitcher
Myer Deitcher
Nathan Elberg
Gerry Feifer
Herb Feifer
Dr. Hy Goldman
Lionel Goldman
Louise Roskies Goldstein
Abigail Hirsch
Linda Israel
Rabbi Asher Jacobson
Lenore Krantz
Ira Kroo
Esther Luftglass
Rabbi Lionel Moses
Lawrence Muscant
Rabbi Reuben Poupko
Ted Quint
Aaron Remer
Kurt Rothschild
Rabbi Adam Scheier
Frank Schlesinger
Edmond Silber
Richard Tozman
Gustava Weiner
Rabbi Michael Whitman
Leonard Wolman
Nathan Yacowar
Dorothy Zalcman-Howard
David Zand
Rabbi Mordecai Zeitz
Gerald N.F. Charness, z"l
Hilda Golick, z"l
Richard Golick, z"l
Michael Herling, z"l
Irving Bob Levitt, z"l
Gisela Tamler, z"l
Edward Winant, z"l

 

 
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Prof. Frederick Krantz, Chairman
Amotz Asa-El (Jerusalem Post)
Prof. Amatzia Baram (Haifa U.)
Prof. Julien Bauer (l’U. du Québec à Mtl.)
Prof. Anne Bayefsky (Columbia U.)
Prof. David Bensoussan (l’U. du Québec à Mtl.)
Prof. Aurel Braun (U. of Toronto)
Prof. Abraham Brodt (Concordia U.)
Prof. Louis H. Feldman (Yeshiva U.)
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld (JCPA)
Yossi Klein Halevi (Shalem Center)
Prof. Mikhail Iossel (Concordia U.)
Prof. Feige Kaplan (McGill U.)
Prof. Robert H. Kargon (Johns Hopkins U.)
Barbara Kay (National Post)
Prof. Richard Landes (Boston U.)
Prof. Seymour Mayne (U. of Ottawa)
 Prof. David Menashri (Tel Aviv U.)
Prof. Csaba Nikolenyi (Concordia U.)
Dr. Mordechai Nisan (Hebrew U.)
Prof. Jean Ouellette (l’U. de Montréal)
Prof. David Pariser (Concordia U.)
Prof. Daniel Pipes (Middle East Foru)
Prof. Norrin Ripsman (Concordia U.)
Prof. Ira Robinson (Concordia U.)
Prof. Asaf Romirowsky (Middle East For)
Prof. Gad Saad (Concordia U.)
Prof. Philip Carl Salzman (McGill U.)
Prof. Haim Shaked (U. of Miami)
Dr. Gabriel Schoenfeld (Hudson Inst)
Prof. Brian Smith (McGill U.)
Prof. Gerald Steinberg (Bar-Ilan U.)
Prof. Asher Susser (Tel Aviv U.)
Prof. Raphael Vago (Tel Aviv U.)
Prof. Leon Volovici (Hebrew U.)
Prof. Harold Waller (McGill U.)
Ehud Ya’ari (Jerusalem Report)
Prof. Limore Yagil (Haifa U.)
Prof. Sally Zerker (York U.)
Emil Fackenheim, z"l
Elie Kedourie, z"l
Annette Paquot, z"l

 
INTERNATIONAL BOARD
Nathan Elberg, Chairman
Moshe Arens
Alan Baker
Yosef Begun
Yehuda Blum
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Yoram Dinstein
Abraham Foxman
Alan Gerson
Amb. Dan Gillerman
Baruch Gitlis
Arye Globerson
Dame Ida Haendel
Malcolm Hoenlein
 
Isi Leibler
John Loftus
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Naomi Regan
Andrew Roberts
Kenneth Treister
Robert Wistrich
James Woolsey
Gen. Moshe Yaalon
Clara Balinsky, z"l
Menahem Begin, z"l
Ludmilla Chiriaeff, z"l
Ephraim Katzir, z"l
Eliahu Lankin, z"l
Henry Zvi Weinberg, z"l

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