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The New York Times hosted a high-production-value videocast about whether it’s good Marxist praxis to shoplift from Whole Foods. As infotainment,...
Much has been made of Jewish students’ claims not to feel safe on Canadian campuses. Professors and press alike have regarded these concerns as a...
Often, when a famous person comes out with a memoir, readers wonder if it will address the elephant in the room, whatever that might be for the...
This past Shabbat, the doors of Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto were locked. The lights went low. More than 200 people pressed against walls and...
I never expected to be working on combatting antisemitism or Jewish community advocacy. Nearly ten years ago, I travelled to Israel as a...
The buzzword of the moment is decentre. Everyone’s decentring everything all the time these days. Or maybe there are just two main contexts in which...
The best influencer is a 70-year-old French-Jewish woman I had never heard of until about a week ago. But before I introduce you to her (well, to her...
As the guy who presided over the New Democratic Party’s decline to fourth party status and a single digit seat count, Jagmeet Singh is a complete...
I’ve heard it said That people come into our lives For a reason Bringing something we must learn… —“For Good,” from Wicked. In the...
My first-ever sleepaway camp experience, aged eight, left something to be desired. Summer camp itself was fine, but socially, this one was not the...
I first read George Alec Effinger’s science-fiction short story “All the Last Wars at Once” in high school. At the time, I found it...
“We see our struggles for fair pay, respect, and safety as connected to struggles against genocide and forces of exploitation around the world.”...
I don’t normally write about the anti-Zionist position or right-wing antisemitism because they are (for now) both mostly irrelevant in Canada. I do...
I had thought I was going to be on vacation (staycation but whatever) at the quiet time of the year, during which nothing major was going to happen,...
It is with some degree of astonishment that the CBC has recently provided a couple of reports about a white supremacist neo-Nazi group organizing...
The big Canadian story of 2025 is an offshoot of the global one, namely the second Donald Trump presidency, from January onwards. Onwards into...
West Elm, for the uninitiated, is a home goods chain store whichever notch or notches above IKEA on the classiness spectrum. It’s found in Canada...
“After months of warning voters against Zohran Mamdani, President Trump said he found common ground with the mayor-elect in an Oval Office...
I am looking at a picture. My wife and I are sitting on a blanket of leaves in a local park, surrounded by our grandchildren, our future. It is a...
At Indiana University, a professor named Günther Jikeli suddenly replaced Mark Roseman as head of the Jewish studies program. Arno Rosenfeld...
Much like the founding of the modern Israeli state, Jews of the progressive left were involved in the building of the North American labour movement....
If you’ve been following Jewish literary goings-on of the last several years, decades, centuries, you’re likely to have noticed that there is a...
We are a country where people achieve hit-tweet status by claiming that in their own minds, the Blue Jays won the World Series, and where the...
It was not a given I’d watch the second season of Nobody Wants This. As you may recall from season one or (anything’s possible) my review of the...
There are two big stories this week on my politically-adrift-Jews beat: the likely election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor, and the...
Not to stun any readers, but I, a Jew, am not a fan of Nazis. But I do not take it at face value that all of my own contemporaries referred to as...
Ever since Oct. 7, 2023, Muslim and Jewish communities in Canada have been torn apart. Dialogue groups disbanded. Friendships bottomed out. Campuses...
There is a meme, its source a satirical Clickhole article: “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.” It’s been lodged...
If you were scoring the last two years by any other metric than Let’s intimidate governments into doing our bidding and normalize violence against...
Oct. 7, 2023, was a day that changed Israel—and Jewish communities across the world—forever. The murder of more than 1,200 people and the...
Canada has taken a long overdue step in strengthening our ability to confront hate. The federal government’s new legislation not only creates a...
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