Events
Events play a crucial role in our success by offering diverse opportunities to connect, communicate, and engage with our expanding community in educational, informative, and entertaining ways. From intimate free lectures featuring various ethnic leaders to large-scale appearances by internationally renowned celebrities and world leaders, each event provides both education and a respite from the persistent antisemitism faced by our community.
These events symbolize our commitment to protecting what we cherish in Canada: the freedom and right to gather peacefully and express our views in a safe environment, free from discrimination or violence.
Upcoming Events
Tafsik Presents: Michael Rapaport
Join us for an engaging and candid fireside chat with one of the most passionate defenders of Israel and the Jewish community, Michael Rapaport. Renowned for his remarkable roles in films such as “Hitch,” “Dr. Doolittle,” “Poetic Justice,” “True Romance,” “Higher Learning,” “Basketball Diaries,” “Beautiful Girls,” “The Paul Bearer,” “Copland,” and many others, Michael has shared the screen with Hollywood icons like Leonardo DiCaprio, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Will Smith, and Sylvester Stallone. This event promises to be enlightening, as Michael dives deep into his advocacy for Israel and the Jewish people. Don’t miss this captivating evening!
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Interfaith Festival of Lights
Congregation Habonim
Israel in the age of Nazism Marxism & Islamism
- Will reveal the architecture of the war of worldviews which targets Jerusalem/the Jewish people and the people of the free world.
- It will equip leaders and the community at large to better understand what is going on and how to fight it.
- The knowledge provided should be a source of encouragement and comfort as the lecture is designed to address fear & confusion with real factual empowering historical antidotes from the history of Israel that apply to this moment.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done will be done again.
There is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
Join us for a powerful evening that will shed light on what is going on.
Beth Tikvah Synagogue
Types of Events & Partners
The Emergency Coalition Against Hate in February 2024 with a sold-out 1350 audience, featuring bestselling author, journalist and war correspondant Douglas Murray, addressing the emergence of extremism and the impact of woke/DEI radicalism on democracy in Canada. Yes, we set the bar high in terms of quality topics by leading authorities.
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Previous Event Speakers
Shai Davidai
Shai Davidai is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His research examines people’s everyday judgments of themselves, other people, and society as a whole. He studies the psychological forces that shape, distort, and bias people’s perceptions of the world and their influence on people’s judgments, preferences, and choices. His topics of expertise include the psychology of judgment and decision making, economic inequality and social mobility, social comparisons, and zero-sum thinking.
His work has been published in top-tier journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Nature Psychology Reviews, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Economic Surveys, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Shai received his PhD from Cornell University in 2015. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, Shai spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research
John Spencer in Toronto
We were also privileged to hear from John Spencer, an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, and renowned expert on urban warfare, military strategy, and tactics. His vast experience includes serving as an advisor to top U.S. Army leaders, including four-star generals, at the Pentagon and the United States Military Academy. It was a remarkable event with meaningful discussions and insights.
Dahlia Kurtz
Dahlia Kurtz — a Jew and grandchild of Holocaust survivors — is an award-winning radio talk show host, international speaker, and nationally syndicated columnist. Her latest book, “Dear Zionist, You are not alone: 18 Letters of Hope and Light” is meant to help people through these dark times. But her mission has always been to live and help live.
Gad Saad in Toronto
Gad Saad, renowned author of “The Parasitic Mind” and “The Saad Truth,” has achieved global recognition for his incisive analysis of groupthink ideologies and woke culture. He is highly sought after as a speaker, lecturer, and intellectual luminary worldwide. Joining Gad Saad was Tafsik Organization’s Executive Director, Amir Epstein. Together they tackle the greatest threats against democracy, and western civilization. Event date – June 10th, 2024, Toronto Canada.
Hillel Fuld
Hillel Fuld is known as a tech guru and a top marketer in Israel. It’s not uncommon for Hillel Fuld to meet with a prime minister, an NBA player, a top actor, a leading rabbi, or a Google team and then have lunch with someone to help the person find a job.
Douglas Murray
Murray has been a contributor to The Spectator since 2000 and has been Associate Editor at the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Evening Standard, The New York Post, and The New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review, UnHerd, and The Free Press.
Born in 1979 his first book came out in 2000 while he was an undergraduate at Oxford. Since then he has published three more full-length books – on politics, history and current affairs – as well as shorter works on free speech and defence.
In 2007 he founded the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), the first think-tank in Britain to study extremism and terrorism. The CSC subsequently became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where Murray held the position of Associate Director from 2011 to 2018.
A prolific debater, Murray has spoken on a variety of prominent platforms, including at the British and European Parliaments and the White House. His opponents have included Malcolm Gladwell, Tariq Ramadan, Julian Assange, Rowan Williams and Anjem Choudary. He appears often on the top political debate programmes, including the BBC’s Newsnight, Daily Politics, This Week and Question Time. He is a regular contributor to Sky News Australia and Fox News. He has appeared on some of the most listened-to podcasts including Joe Rogan’s and ‘Waking Up’ with Sam Harris.