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Len Rudner
@LenRudner

Screen shot 2013-10-08 at 4.37.07 PMLen Rudner is Principal at Len Rudner & Associates, a consultancy focusing on community advocacy, diversity & inclusion and human rights.

He is the former Director of Community Relations and Outreach for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). Prior to working with CIJA Len was employed in successive roles with Canadian Jewish Congress, acting as Ontario Regional Director, National Director of Community Relations and Ontario Director of Community Relations.

He has represented the position of the Jewish community on a variety of issues including antisemitism, discrimination in the workplace, reasonable accommodation and Holocaust denial. He has represented CIJA and CJC at international conferences focusing on Holocaust education, antisemitism, hate speech and freedom of speech.

He is a member of the Canadian Interfaith Conversation, the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto and the Canadian Ethnocultural Council. He has also served on the Race Relations Advisory Committee of the York Region District School Board and the City of Vaughan Equity and Diversity Committee.

He has participated in The Forum series at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, presenting on the topics of the Merchant of Venice, King Lear and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Len holds an Honours BA from Concordia University, a Bachelor of Education degree from University of Toronto and is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for community service.

Posted on October 8, 2013
Updated on March 1, 2016

The opinions expressed by contributors shared on The Exchange do not necessarily reflect the policies or positions of CIJA, its staff, or Board of Directors.

Len Rudner's Posts

The Hungry God

And you shall not present any of your children to pass through for Moloch. (Lev 18:21) Moloch, of course, was the god of the...

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But is it Appropriate

Photo credit: Daniel Reeve For a number of weeks I have listened to various positions asserted on the thorny matter of cultural appropriation. There’s certainly...

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Yom Ha’atzmaut: Celebrating Israel in all her Glory

In the final act of Das Boot, the crew has miraculously raised their broken submarine from the bottom of the Straits of Gibraltar. Limping...

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Thank you, Mr. Wiesel

Much has been written about Elie Wiesel in the past few days. I scarcely think I can add to the overflowing of respect and...

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No more Your Ward News in the Mail

Minister of Public Services Judy Foote has issued an order forbidding Canada Post to deliver Your Ward News, a monthly tabloid newspaper distributed, the...

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Truth and Reconciliation

On June 21, Canada marks the 20th National Aboriginal Day. It is, according to a Government of Canada website, an opportunity for all Canadians...

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Rise Again: How Stan Rogers Still Sings to Me

On June 2, 1983, Air Canada Flight 797 was en route from Dallas, Texas to Toronto when an in-flight fire forced the plane to...

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Do You Know Who I Am?

When I was 18 I took a year away from school to earn extra high school credits and do some growing up before going...

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Label Babel

Earlier this week, the always informative Multicultural Meanderings blog featured an interesting article by Dan Barry on the terms that have been used to...

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Yom Hashoah

As I write this we are in the final hours of Yom Hashoah, the annual day of remembrance for those who perished in the...

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Is it Okay to Laugh?

Last week, Jake Coyle wrote an article about The Last Laugh, a documentary that looks at the unlikely pairing of humour and the Holocaust....

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Call of the Vile

In reading Heather Cox Richardson’s wonderful book on the history of the Republican Party – To Make Men Free – I came across two...

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Matzoh, Meatballs and Barking Dogs

With all due respect to Meredith Wilson, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Pesach. In the local super market, the shelves have been...

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Hate Crimes Backlash

On March 17, the Toronto Police Service presented its annual report on hate crime to the Police Services Board. The police have been collecting...

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Words and Action

Last week, noted author and historian scholar Erna Paris penned an op-ed for the Globe & Mail on the topic of genocide and its...

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Remembering

Ten years ago today, at 530 in the morning, the phone rang. It was my brother, telling me that our mother had passed away....

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Justice Delayed…

February 28, 2000 was my first day of work at Canadian Jewish Congress. I was handed a thick wad of paper and told, “This...

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Call Me Rover

A few days ago the National Post carried a story by Clara Ho about a vandalism that took place at Wilma Hansen junior high...

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World day of Social Justice
We Need More Than a Day

In this crucial year for global development, as Member States work to craft a post-2015 agenda and a new set of sustainable development goals,...

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We Are Stones

When I learned last fall that The Diary of Anne Frank would be part of the 2015 season I immediately offered to speak on...

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The New Einsatzgruppen

For as long as I can recall I have tried to defend the memory of the Holocaust from both those who would deliberately injure...

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Upon a Wheel of Fire

On July 31, 2014, Len Rudner, CIJA’s Director of Community Relations and Outreach, participated in a panel discussion on King Lear as part of...

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Remembering Rwanda

Today we mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, a shameful reminder of our species’ seemingly unlimited capacity for mass murder and of...

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Remembering my grandfather

Today marks the yahrzeit of my beloved grandfather, Chone ben Aryeh z’l. He passed away in 1980 and rarely a week goes by that...

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Are reasonable accommodations reasonable?

Over the last few weeks the issue of reasonable accommodation has regained its place in the national conversation. A recent case at York University...

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How did I get here?

The following remarks were given at a recent meeting of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto At our last meeting, John Joseph asked if I...

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UCC boycotts… seltzer?

A few days ago, the group known as UNJPPI (United Network for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine) made a bold stroke for...

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Getting to Zero

On December 1, we pause to remember those who have died from AIDS and to rededicate ourselves to the fight against this disease. The...

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For a Few Dollars More

When I was growing up, my father’s financial advice could be summed up as  “there’s nothing so comforting as having a few dollars in...

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Reflections during Holocaust Education Week

In the summer of 2004 I traveled to Poland as part of the advance team for the 2005 March of the Living. I thought...

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Reflecting on Mortality

A few weeks ago fellow Exchange contributor Don Hutchinson shared an excellent article with us on the topic of physician-assisted suicide.  What follows here...

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