PLUS: Student tablings at TMU and Concordia, Shabbat dinner with OCAD students, Uniting Through Humour with Yuk Yuk's Mark Breslin, and more!
AVI Director of Education Gabriela Rosenblum is leading a workshop on Combating Antisemitism at BBYO's International Convention!
Allied Voices for Israel (AVI) is proud to announce that we will be leading workshops at BBYO's annual International Convention in Denver, Colorado this week.
Our Director of Education Gabriela Rosenblum will be giving a workshop on combating antisemitism that will be available to all attendees, including Canadian high school students and stakeholders.
If you are planning on attending BBYO IC this year, please join us! Gabriela will be leading the workshop on Friday, Feb. 14th at 10:30am MST.
To view the full schedule, please click here.
Our Hebrews and Hip Hop tabling at TMU with SSI TMU was a huge success!
It was an incredible display of allyship and camaraderie at our first tabling of the semester with Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Toronto Metropolitan University.
We are proud of our Common Ground Ambassador and AVI/HRC Campus Media Fellow Liat Schwartz, who is also President of SSI TMU, for leading our Hebrews and Hip Hop table with Senior Campus Advisor Idaliah Snajdman.
Several students, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, stopped by our table and showed their support for AVI’s initiatives and mission to unite students of all backgrounds against anti-Jewish hatred.
To see more photos from this tabling, please click here.
Director of Quebec Region and Atlantic Canada Noa Peretz Benchaya with our AVI Student Ambassadors at Concordia
Common Ground Ambassador Ryan Michon and other students had an amazing time at our Save A Child's Heart Canada tabling at Concordia University, in partnership with Hillel Concordia.
Our Student Ambassadors had a blast connecting with their peers on campus about this important charitable cause in Israel, along with our Director of Quebec Region and Atlantic Canada Noa Peretz Benchaya.
To see more pics, please click here.
Our OCAD students had a blast at our challah bake and Shabbat dinner in partnership with the OCAD Jewish Club!
Our beautiful Challah Workshop and Shabbat Dinner in partnership with the OCAD Jewish Club was a huge success!
It was amazing to see everyone who came and joined us on this beautiful night celebrating friendship and tradition.
To view more pictures from the event, click here.
It was all smiles at our “Uniting Through Laughter” event with Yuk Yuk's Comedy Founder Mark Breslin
Plenty of laughs were had at our “Uniting Through Laughter” event with Yuk Yuk's Comedy Founder Mark Breslin.
We would like to thank our incredible partners, Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation, Canadian Chinese Political Affairs Committee, Canadian Organization for Hindu Heritage Education, Coalition of Hindus of North America, The Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism, and Muslims Facing Tomorrow, for helping us put together this evening of bridge-building through humour.
Also, a huge shoutout to the The Lodzer Congregation for providing the perfect venue for the evening.
For some more pictures and videos of this uplifting event, click here.
Our AVI staff hit the slopes in support of Save A Child's Heart Canada
Team AVI hit the slopes for a good cause last Friday!
Our staff had a blast at “Ski Alpine and Save a Child’s Heart” at the Alpine Ski Club in beautiful Collingwood Ontario, in partnership with Save A Child's Heart Canada.
To check out some more pictures of the day, please click here.
All Laurier and Waterloo students welcome!
Our bagel brunch in partnership with Hillel Waterloo & Laurier was deliciously successful!
Our Common Ground Ambassador Taddy Grechanik asked his fellow Laurier and Waterloo students a very important question: what do you like on your bagel?
Please click here to hear their answers!
This week's #AmbassadorSpotlight is rapper Robert Rihmeek Williams, known by his stage name as “Meek Mill”
This week’s #AllySpotlight is rapper Robert Rihmeek Williams, known by his stage name as Meek Mill.
In 2023, Mill joined some 10,000 people from all over the world in Poland for the annual March of the Living, a 2-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where Nazis murdered over a million civilians – mostly Jews – during World War II.
Mill, a 35-year-old African American rapper from Philadelphia, did not have any prior connection to the atrocities that happened there. But at a time of rising antisemitism in the US, his presence spoke volumes, and that was the point.
Mill said he went to Auschwitz to “see this for myself and learn about it for myself,” describing what he saw there as “terror, pain, something you can’t really explain.”
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