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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...
On Yom Kippur, two people were killed and more were injured in Manchester, England, when a man named Jihad Al-Shamie attacked the Heaton Park...
If you prick Ezra Levy, does he not bleed? As a literary challenge, few tasks would be as bold or surprising as making one of your main characters a...
Editor’s note: the following is the Rosh Hashanah sermon Rabbi Jarrod Grover delivered at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto on September 23, 2025. It...
For approximately five minutes, it looked like the big threat to free expression in the United States, a country that so prides itself on the stuff,...
I am a Canadian Jew with deep roots in Canada. My grandfathers, one from Winnipeg and the other from Toronto, helped build two of Vancouver’s...
It’s an inside joke of sorts in Jewish communal media that two types of people research whether each famous person is Jewish: antisemites, and...
On Aug. 27 at a Loblaws grocery store in Ottawa, a woman was stalked and stabbed in the kosher food aisle, one of the most public and everyday spaces...
The big-picture question that animates this column and my podcast The Jewish Angle is about the relationship between the progressive ideology of the...
Everyone understands that the more you yell at someone for lacking empathy or humanity, the less empathetic they are likely to become, right? What if...
There is a standard way of writing about Lena Dunham. A kind of expected throat-clearing, in which it is solemnly acknowledged that the ur-millennial...
“She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens, till her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes.” So begins the theme...
The verdict is in: identity politics is to blame for rising antisemitism in schools. At least, that was the conclusion of a report released last week...
There’s an image that, for me, encapsulates the 2010s. It’s a 2017 New York City billboard for the millennial-pink beauty brand Glossier, itself...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a magnificent little book. Measuring about six and a half by nine inches, its pages feature the traditional Hebrew text of...
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