The Russia- and Iran-backed Assad regime in Syria employed chemical weapons against its own citizens again last week. It’s hard…
asylum seekers, conflict, democracy, Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Palestinians, refugees, SyriaBlog Archives
Estimates of the number of people – most of them teens and young adults – who rallied in Washington, D.C.,…
gun control, youthAs Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman writes (in this week’s issue), the Exodus story is not one in which humankind is…
genocide, human rights, Passover, Putin, Rohingya, tikkun olam
For a people who make up a fraction of one percent of the world’s population, Jews sure do gather a…
antisemitism, Farrakhan, Outremont, Putin, Trump, Women's MarchLast year, the Students’ Society of McGill University, in Montreal, barred the reelection of three Jewish members of the board…
anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Canada, Israel, McGillAndrew Scheer was two days old when Joe Clark was elected prime minister of Canada in 1979. In that election…
Andrew Scheer, Canada, Conservatives, embassy, Israel, Jerusalem, politics
Purim is a time when we play with identities, dress in disguises and revel in deceptions. There is an aspect…
Iran, Israel, Netanyahu, politics, Purim, Russia, security, Trump, United States
For years, Poles have bristled at terms like “Polish death camps” or “Polish concentration camps.” Rightly so. Places like Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Andrzej Zybertowicz, genocide, history, Holocaust, Israel, PolandBritish Columbia lost a larger-than-life figure last Friday. Dave Barrett was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in…
British Columbia, Dave Barrett, politics
