Jewish & World News

A Jewish group is demanding the resignation of a Quebec mayor who said Israel shouldn't exist. Stephane Gendron said Israel is an apartheid state and expressed hope for its demise, in remarks made Dec. 27 on a daily television show he hosts, . He said "products being made in Israel , on land stolen from Palestinians, who are kept walled in by an apartheid regime where they are cut off...it's very serious."

Quebec's education ministry has obtained a court injunction to shut down a private Jewish school in Montreal for not maintaining scholastic standards. The Académie Yeshiva Toras Moshe has offered an extensive religious education to Jewish boys in Montreal's tony Outremont neighbourhood for half a century.