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January 3, 2017
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/unlikely-partnership-reunites-syrian-family-in-toronto/article33465701/
Syrian family to reunite in Toronto, thanks to unlikely partnership between synagogue, mosque
After civil unrest broke out in 2011, violence escalated across Syria. The country that ignited Ms. Elendaris love for archeology began its reduction to rubble, and her hopes of seeing her family again were dashed.
Now, Ms. Elendari who moved to Toronto four years ago is counting down mere days until theyre reunited.
At 6:40 p.m. on Jan. 10, a plane from Turkey will carry all eight members of the Elendari family to Toronto as privately sponsored refugees. Out of the over 38,000 Syrian refugees who have landed in Canada since November, 2015, though, very few have been due to such an unconventional partnership the Elendari familys arrival comes thanks to the joint-sponsorship project of a Jewish synagogue and a Muslim mosque that share a parking lot in Thornhill, Ont.
The unlikely project began last December, when one of the first groups of Syrian refugees arrived at Pearson International Airport. Amid the flurry of media coverage on the countrys newcomers, Temple Har Zion reached out to their neighbours at the Imam Mahdi Islamic Centre and asked if theyd be interested in sponsoring a family together.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/unlikely-partnership-reunites-syrian-family-in-toronto/article33465701/
January 3, 2017
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/unlikely-partnership-reunites-syrian-family-in-toronto/article33465701/
Syrian family to reunite in Toronto, thanks to unlikely partnership between synagogue, mosque
After civil unrest broke out in 2011, violence escalated across Syria. The country that ignited Ms. Elendaris love for archeology began its reduction to rubble, and her hopes of seeing her family again were dashed.
Now, Ms. Elendari who moved to Toronto four years ago is counting down mere days until theyre reunited.
At 6:40 p.m. on Jan. 10, a plane from Turkey will carry all eight members of the Elendari family to Toronto as privately sponsored refugees. Out of the over 38,000 Syrian refugees who have landed in Canada since November, 2015, though, very few have been due to such an unconventional partnership the Elendari familys arrival comes thanks to the joint-sponsorship project of a Jewish synagogue and a Muslim mosque that share a parking lot in Thornhill, Ont.
The unlikely project began last December, when one of the first groups of Syrian refugees arrived at Pearson International Airport. Amid the flurry of media coverage on the countrys newcomers, Temple Har Zion reached out to their neighbours at the Imam Mahdi Islamic Centre and asked if theyd be interested in sponsoring a family together.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/unlikely-partnership-reunites-syrian-family-in-toronto/article33465701/
January 1, 2017
Guy Lombardo's last New Year's Eve - 40 years ago tonight
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