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מלחמת דוד בגוליית

photo - Canada is fighting for Bombardier's future against America’s Boeing, which is trying to destroy it

קנדה נאבקת על עתידה של בומברדייה מול בואינג האמריקנית שמנסה לחסלה. (צילום: Jean Gagnon) בעידן דונלד טראמפ קנדה נכנסת לכוננות כללית וממשלתה הליבראלית בראשות, ג’סטין טרודו, מנהלת בין היתר מאבק קשה למען עתידו של קונצרן התעופה בומברדייה איירוספייס מקוויבק, שהענקית…

Trump-Bibi bromance

photo - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York. (photo from Israel’s Government Press Office via Ashernet) A great deal of diplomacy depends on intangibles like whether the parties involved like or dislike each other. Israeli…

Long-overdue reunion

photo - Left to right, Lilia Apelbaum, Olga Livshin and Tanya Kogan, during their reunion in Vancouver

Left to right, Lilia Apelbaum, Olga Livshin and Tanya Kogan, during their reunion in Vancouver. (photo by Tanya Kogan) For two weeks this August, my apartment was unusually crowded. Friends from Haifa and Los Angeles were staying with me. We…

Charleston’s southern charm

photo - The Orthodox synagogue Brith Sholom Beth Israel

The Orthodox synagogue Brith Sholom Beth Israel. (photo from jsilverman.weebly.com) Charleston, S.C., is one of the most popular travel destinations in the United States. With its perfectly preserved old mansions, Charleston has charm and grace, in addition to genuine human…

האופציה הקנדית

photo - In the Trump era, the Canadian option is gaining momentum among Israelis and Americans alike

בעידן טראמפ: האופציה הקנדית תופסת תאוצה אצל ישראלים ואמריקנים כאחד. (צילום: Cynthia Ramsay) בעידן הנשיא האמריקני השערורייתי ביותר בתולדות המדינה, דונלד טראמפ, האופציה לעבור לקנדה תופסת תאוצה אצל אמריקנים וגם אצל ישראלים. כך מסתבר. עיתונאית הארץ, נעמי דרום, שגרה עם…

Charlottesville a turning point?

photo - violence in Charlottesville

(photo by Ryan M. Kelly via cbc.ca) Last weekend, in Charlottesville, Va., hundreds of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klanners, neo-Nazis and other racists and antisemites rallied and brought violence to the hometown of Thomas Jefferson. The images that emerged are…

Boost defence of peace

Pierre Trudeau once compared living next to the United States to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt,” Trudeau told…

Trump supporters meet

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Left to right, Larry Elder, Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt at the Unite Inland Empire Conservative Conference on April 30. (photo by Dave Gordon) Eight hundred supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gathered in a Los Angeles-area venue recently –…

Embassy location secondary

When President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East, the world will be primarily watching closely to see if he makes any of his trademark gaffes that set off a cultural land mine in Saudi Arabia or Israel. But the…