Speakers have included Yossi Klein Halevi, Stockwell Day, Itamar Marcus, Dan Gillerman, Norman Podhoretz, Irwin Cotler, Steven Emerson, Moshe Ya'alon, James Woolsey, Alan Baker, and Isi Leiber.

During World War II, Baruch, who was born in Bucharest, survived pogroms, antisemitism, and forced labor camps in Romania.

Twenty years ago, he spearheaded and launched the first Montreal Holocaust, Commemoration in memory of Jews murdered in Romania and Transnistria, which has since become an annual event.

[4] It provides CIJR members with data and a digest of international analysis and opinion on issues, mixing original content with articles from newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, official documents, and websites from around the world.

[citation needed] Dateline examines the Middle East and covers issues related to the politics, economics, and cultures of the region from a Zionist perspective.