Today, Canadian Jews have lost the art of verbally communicating aggressively, shoulder-to-shoulder, against its adversaries.
A Canadian perspective.
Recently, I received a compassionate email from a Canadian reader. He said:
I’m tired of…
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‘Jews for Zohran’ knock doors as Mamdani’s past IDF comments resurface
This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor’s race. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There are 6 days to the election.
Jewish New Yorkers who support…
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The Blogs: Yom HaAliyah: The call to move to Israel | Shira Lankin Sheps
When I was younger, when people talked about aliyah, what came to mind were the videos of aliyah flights where there was music and dancing and emotional speeches and friends clinging to each other as they said goodbye, and (if you were lucky)…
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The Blogs: EU Funds for Academic Bias? Why the ‘Aula Mediterrània’ Lecture Series Undermines Democracy and Dialogue | Karin Kloosterman
A conference ‘for peace’ in the Mediterranean, funded by the EU and which demonizes Israel in its core The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) in Barcelona, a so-called peace making think tank for the Mediterranean…
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The Blogs: Why the settlers’ Gaza dream may cost Israel its future | Simon Kupfer
When Israel withdrew its settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, the Disengagement was sold as more of a strategic necessity than a change in Jerusalem’s heart. Defending a scattering of towns in the centre of 1.5 million Palestinians had…
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The Blogs: Zionism ‘without Arabs’ isn’t Zionism at all | Elhanan Miller
Many times over the past year, our opposition party leaders have expressed their desire to form a “Zionist government,” while clarifying that such a government could not include ultra-Orthodox or Arab parties. Such a statement not only…
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The Blogs: How New York Lost Its Mind | Philip Gross
From Athens to New York, democracy’s fatal flaw has always been the same — confusing appetite for justice and charisma for competence.
There is nowhere in the world that matches the energy, the culture, and the sheer magic that is New…
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The Blogs: Let the Israeli government hire non-Jewish leaders to fight anti-Israel lies | Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
The ‘impossible’ can surely be done and will give great satisfaction
The number of Gentiles who follow non-Jewish leaders is staggering. Think of the billions of Christians, including over a billion Roman Catholics.
When these billions…
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The Blogs: ‘And There Was a Famine in the Land’ – Lech Lecha 5786 | Jay M. Stein
“And there was a famine in the land.” — Genesis 12:10
It’s over.
At least, that’s what we’re being told. The war in Gaza has come to an end — or at least, this chapter has. But like all endings in Israel’s story, this one…
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The Blogs: Together We Will Win: 39th World Zionist Congress | Menachem Lehrfield
“B’yachad ninatze’ach.” Together we will win: Reflections from the 39th World Zionist Congress
The 39th World Zionist Congress convened today in Jerusalem, bringing together hundreds of delegates from across the globe to shape the…
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