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Lawyers4Wiesenthal – Hosted by Avi Greenspoon
Goodmans LLP
2:00pm – 4:00pm
City Playhouse, Vaughan
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Speaker – Reza Kahlili – author of “A Time to Betray. The Astonishing Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
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Rosh Hashana at Queen’s Park
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Chair: Ron Frisch
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Marina Nemat’s book launch: After Tehran
A story of courage and recovery, After Tehran chronicles Nemat's confrontation with her past, and how ultimately she emerges from the emotional ravages of posttraumatic stress.
RSVP REQUIRED
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Screening of Spirit of Hope 2010 video
A Discussion with Elie Wiesel and Salman Rushdie moderated by The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney.
RSVP REQUIRED
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Film Screening – Defiance
RSVP REQUIRED
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Lawyers4Wiesenthal – Eli Hertz speaker. Hosted by Steven Kelman
Aird & Berlis
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Among his many activities, Eli Hertz is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for CAMERA, The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.
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Film Screening – Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Sheppard Grande Theater
8:30pm – 9:30pm (VIP Cocktail reception)
9:30pm – Film screening
Narrated by Ben Kingsley, two time Academy Award ™ winning Moriah Films' latest production, Walking With Destiny highlights Churchill's years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Hitler, and how his legacy continues to be relevant in the 21st century.
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Shlomit Kriger’s book launch: Marking Humanity
Author Shlomit Kriger will discuss her book "Marking Humanity" and will be joined by survivors: Simcha Simchovitch, George Scott and Renate Krakauer.
RSVP REQUIRED
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights presents: Facts about Israel’s Rights
RSVP REQUIRED
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Holocaust Education Week
The Art of Survival
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
Panel of Survivors - Max Eisen, Bill Glied and Vera Schiff speaking
RSVP REQUIRED
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Holocaust Education Week
Photo Memories of an Allied Soldier
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Herb Goldstein to facilitate
RSVP REQUIRED
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Holocaust Education Week
Film screening : I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal”
Sheppard Grande Theatre
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who lost 89 family members, helped track down over 1,100 Nazi war criminals and spent six decades fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people. Watching the early efforts of the US government to prosecute Nazi war criminals he realized, "There is no freedom without justice," and initially decided to dedicate a few years to that quest. A few years turned into the rest of his life. Narrated by Nicole Kidman
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Luncheon
David Frum Speaker
12:00pm – 2:00pm
The King Edward Hotel
David Frum is a former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is also the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. His editorial columns have appeared in a variety of Canadian and American magazines and newspapers.
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Remembrance Day at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
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Gil Troy Speaker
Lawyers4Wiesenthal - Hosted by Steven Kelman
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Aird & Berlis
Doctors4Wiesenthal - Hosted by Drs Andrew & Rose Braude
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University McGill in Montreal and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. Troy has written several books including Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today.
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FIRST NIGHT of Chanukah
Michael Ross speaker
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
A celebration and donor appreciation evening.
Join us for a Grand Dessert Buffett and Candle Lighting
From 1988 until 2001, Michael Ross was an undercover agent, a spy, in the Mossad, Israel's feared and respected external intelligence Agency.
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