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Yoni Goldstein: How a rock star is quietly leading the way on pro-Israel activism
7+ hour, 59+ min ago (1376+ words) The Strokes' Nick Valensi has been silent about his bandmate's antisemitism. But that may be the best course of action There have never been more people speaking up for Jews and Israel than there are right now. Every day, our…...
J. D. Tuccille: Festering Jew hatred means even the U. S. isn't safe anymore
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (548+ words) Last month, after a survey found'more than three-quarters of French Jews'feel unsafe'in their country, hundreds of French Jewish physicians'gathered at an immigration fair to consider moving to Israel, the world's only majority-Jewish country. "There is no future in France, one…...
More allies than ever before: Tens of thousands expected for Walk with Israel
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (131+ words) Many people are seeking out the comfort and strength that will come from an event like this, not just from walking with other Jews, but with so many allies too, says a United Jewish Appeal spokesperson This year's Walk will…...
Chris Selley: At a synagogue, Carney tells the wrong people to abandon their ethnic rivalries
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (548+ words) If everyone was leaving behind their wars and animosities in the old world, as Carney suggests, there wouldn't be a problem The most extraordinarily limp, ineffectual line in Mark Carney's comprehensively limp, ineffectual address on the growing scourge of antisemitism…...
Matthew Taub: The Israeli ambassador's lament
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (122+ words) Politically, we're not in a good spot," Israel's ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, said of Canada-Israel relations on the Unapologetically Jewish podcast this week Dyson, SKIMS and ILIA Beauty, to name a few Professional kayaker Nouria Newman opens up about…...
Chris Selley: Canadian politicians should watch Keir Starmer's defence of British Jews
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (969+ words) Flat platitudes like "there is no place for this in Canada," are demonstrably not getting the job done Extraordinary scenes from across the pond: Some on the British left wing are upset that Metropolitan Police officers kicked a knife-wielding man…...
A U. K. rabbi learned of the Golders Green attack at Auschwitz. Here's what he has to say
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (315+ words) 'My phone pings, I get a message that two Jewish people have been stabbed in Golders Green, minutes from my home' Rabbi Doron Birnbaum: I've just come back, as a rabbi and educator in Hasmonean High School, one of the…...
Dimitri Soudas: The secular state we've forgotten
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (427+ words) A secular state does not favour one religion over another, nor does it allow religion to colonize schools funded by the common purse I'll begin with a personal disclosure that may seem, at first, to cut against the argument I'm…...
Avi Benlolo: This Passover, we're not just retelling the Exodus story, we're living it.
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (368+ words) The ancient story of oppression and liberation has become our daily reality This Passover matters more than ever before. We are reminded that in every generation, an enemy rises to threaten our freedom. This year, and since October 7, we've been…...
Opinion: The meaning of freedom this passover
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (487+ words) The visibility, frequency and normalization of Jew hatred is'alarming On Wednesday evening, Jewish'families in Canada and around the world will gather to mark Passover. At its core,'Passover'is a'holiday centred around the'celebration of freedom, telling'the story of a people liberated…...