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New Emergency Room at Eilat's Yoseftal Hospital Opens its Doors

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto behind vital renovation  

Healthcare services in Israel’s “deep south” received a major boost recently with the opening of a brand new, much-needed emergency room at Yoseftal hospital in Eilat.  

“Yoseftal is the only hospital for miles around,…

A week to remember for UJA Federation's Diller Teen Fellows

Program participants meet with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynn  

By Daniel Sourani--On Thursday, April 3, Diller Fellows from UJA Federation’s partner community of Eilat/Eilot arrived in Toronto before heading north on Highway 400 to Camp George in Parry Sound, Ontario, where they were met…

GTA's Community Holocaust Commemoration will be a historic one

Yom Hashoah V’Hagurah at Lebovic Campus on Sunday, April 27th  

By Daniel Horowitz—The upcoming Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah Community Holocaust Commemoration – co-sponsored by UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre and the Canadian Soc…

UJA Day raises $7,000 for UJA Annual Campaign 2015

Future community leaders shine at TanenbaumCHAT  

By Dan Horowitz--Whoever coined the phrase “youth is wasted on the young” obviously never met the students at the Anne and Max TanenbaumCHAT Wilmington Avenue Campus.  

The philanthropic-minded teens recently held their annual UJA Da…

Six Days in Eastern Ukraine

In short, there is tension in the air, especially in Kharkiv, which is 40 miles from border with Russia.  People seem very nervous.  In Dnipropetrovsk especially, one sees many Ukrainian flags, patriotic billboards.  Nurses have been called up for two days of military medical training, ph…