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Doorstep Postings: A columnist’s paradoxical Yves Engler endorsement

I’m going to do the Canadian political establishment and the Jewish community an enormous favour and torpedo Yves Engler’s bid for the leadership...

15.07.2025 2

Canadian Jewish News

Josh Lieblein

Shots fired: the pride and plight of the ‘Jewish-owned restaurant’

Like perhaps everyone apart from the shooter, I don’t know the reason why, on Canada Day, someone shot a gun into Mimi Chinese, a restaurant in the...

14.07.2025 3

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The art monster’s daughter: Molly Jong-Fast’s new memoir pans Erica Jong’s parenting

Summer—even in Toronto—feels like beach-reading season, so I decided to set whither-liberal-democracy aside for one column, in favour of reviewing...

07.07.2025 2

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Making sense of what Mamdani’s primary win says about today’s New York

When I saw that my Bluesky feed was smitten with a New York City mayoral candidate, a state assemblyman named Zohran Mamdani, I thought a few...

01.07.2025 2

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Doorstep Postings: Why Mamdani couldn’t happen in Canada

Nothing grinds my gears worse than some hot-taking Canadian pundit insisting that this week’s hip fresh new political chaos abroad can’t happen...

01.07.2025 1

Canadian Jewish News

Josh Lieblein

Criticizing Israel in order to defend it

There’s a passage from a May 25 Michelle Goldberg New York Times op-ed I have not been able to stop thinking about. It’s about “what [Elon] Musk’s...

23.06.2025 1

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy