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Academic freedom doesn’t mean ignoring antisemitism

In an April 11 open letter published in La Presse , a group of Jewish professors from Quebec’s CEGEPs and universities called for the resignation...

29.05.2025 5

Canadian Jewish News

Gordon Louis Aronoff

Doorstep Postings: Pander-monium as Canada opens the 45th Parliament

Perhaps it was always this way, but it has certainly become impossible to ignore: shameless, naked pandering has taken over every aspect of life,...

27.05.2025 3

Canadian Jewish News

Josh Lieblein

With ‘The Rehearsal’, Nathan Fielder cements his legacy as uniquely 21st-century observational comic

When you hear the phrase “observational comedy,” you probably think of 1990s comics, such as Jerry Seinfeld (“My parents didn’t want to move to...

27.05.2025 6

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Michael Fraiman

Is Jewish dieting culture over? Reading ‘This is Big’ in the age of Ozempic

There’s a meme of sorts about how people from all cultural backgrounds claim that what makes their own unique is its love of food. As versus which...

26.05.2025 2

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Setting Trump aside for a busman’s-holiday Britcom

Did you ever have all your prior assumptions confirmed in one go? That would be the best way I could describe where things are at on my various...

21.05.2025 7

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

An exception to the rule: Barry Diller and Diane von Fürstenberg’s Jewish love story with a twist

For convergence-of-interest reasons, the moment I knew there was an excerpt of Barry Diller’s memoir, Who Knew, available at New York Magazine...

12.05.2025 1

Canadian Jewish News

Phoebe Maltz Bovy