Bernie Farber
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Farber speaks at a Roma Community Centre rally in Toronto in 2013
Bernie M. Farber (born 1951)
[1] is a writer, commentator, and the former
chief executive officer of the
Canadian Jewish Congress[2] and a
social activist. He has testified before the Canadian courts as an
expert witness on
hate crime.
[3] He was appointed CEO of the Mosaic Institute,
[4] a Canadian NGO that promotes pluralism, peace and conflict resolution internationally, in August 2015 and has announced his retirement, effective October 1, 2017, though he will remain on the NGO's advisory board.
[5] Farber was previously CEO of the
Paloma Foundation, an NGO which works with homeless youth shelters until his appointment with the Mosaic Institute.
[6] He also writes on human and civil rights issues for the
Huffington Post[7] and
NOW Magazine,
[8] as well as various newspapers across Canada, and is frequently interviewed on these topics by the media. He was a weekly columnist for the
Canadian Jewish News from 2013 until the paper's demise in 2020.
[9]