''The Jewish Tribune'' was a privately owned community-based Canadian weekly Jewish

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founded by and closely associated with

B'nai Brith Canada B'nai Brith Canada ( ; BBC; from he, בני ברית, b'né brit, Children of the Covenant) is a Canadian Jewish service organization and advocacy group. It is the Canadian chapter of B'nai B'rith International. Mission The organization prese ...

. It was founded in 1964 as ''The Covenant'', B'nai Brith's in-house newsletter and was later relaunched in the mid-1990s as an external publication under its current name. The ''Tribune'' was initially a fortnightly newspaper but became a weekly after several years. At its peak it had a circulation of over 100,000. As of May 2013, ''The Jewish Tribune'' had a circulation of 60,500 copies a week which made it, for a time, the largest Jewish weekly publication in Canada. It was distributed in

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, both by regular mail and by the internet and is available for free from newspaper boxes, news stands, businesses, synagogues and various outlets, mostly in Jewish neighbourhoods. Politically, the newspaper was generally conservative both in Canadian and Israeli politics and may be considered an ideological successor to the ''Jewish Times'', a newspaper published by

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from 1974 to 1992 as a right-wing rival to the more centrist ''

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''. Many of the news items it carries documented activities of B'nai Brith Canada and generally reflected the views of the organization while being critical of, first, the

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and then its successor, the

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. Notable contributors to the newspaper included Mike Cohen, city councilman for Cote Saint Luc and Daniel Smajovits, a well-known Montreal-area writer. M.J.Nurenberger's daughter, Atara Beck, worked as a journalist for the ''Jewish Tribune'' for several years before moving to Israel in 2011, after which she freelanced as the paper's Israel correspondent. ''The Jewish Tribunes main competition was the ''

'' (which temporarily ceased publication in 2013). It also competed with ''Shalom Life'', an English-Hebrew publication aimed at Israeli Canadians in Toronto, and other regional Jewish publications. B'nai Brith Canada CEO

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was the newspaper's publisher from 1985 until September 2014 when incoming B'nai Brith Canada president Michael Mostyn was appointed publisher. On January 29, 2015, B'nai Brith Canada announced that it was suspending publication of the periodical's print edition for 13 weeks, and possibly permanently. Though the organization claimed it would continue publishing the ''Tribune'' online, one of its columnists announced that staff had been laid off, and its website was not updated after the suspension was announced. Subsequently, it was reported that the newspaper folded as a cost-cutting move along with the sale of B'nai Brith Canada's headquarters and other facilities.

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American Jewish Press Association, Canada listings''A century of the Canadian Jewish press, 1880s-1980s''
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