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There’s a 1996 episode of British sitcom As Time Goes By that begins with two young women looking, with snark and admiration, at a photo of a...
This review contains spoilers. You Can See Everything is, ironically, screened at an aspect ratio that shows less to the viewer than most commercial...
In the great baton-pass between Diaspora communities, it’s Britain’s turn to be the put-upon Jews du jour. Canada has even officially declared...
“Jewish joy” is having a moment. It shows up in grant guidelines, new organizational mission statements and frothy headlines like “This Hanukkah...
I made the mistake of picking up Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East, (available in Canada and the United...
There is a thing where people write into Jewish publications—yes, including The CJN—and ask for their names to be removed from old articles. Not...
Rachel “Archie” Matlow spent years feeling more at home in Toronto’s queer, progressive left than in organized Jewish life. They’re trans,...
Circa 2010, when I was a literature grad student, I would sometimes blog about fashion and beauty. When I would mention my preference for brightly...
If you were to ask me, along with 90 per cent of Canadians, what my opinion is of the ongoing conflict in the Congo, or the current Sudanese civil...
You know the scene. Darkness falls. A hush settles over the gathered crowd. The rabbi intones: “The hour is nigh! Yom Kippur is upon us! Atone, turn...
Democratic congresswoman and maybe-soon presidential hopeful Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines, launched think-pieces, by referring to...
Among the many bits of ephemera that have taken up residence in my brain over the years is an old sketch from the much-loved comedy series Mr. Show...
On the flight back from France, where my family and I recently spent a week after visiting relatives in Belgium, I watched all three of the Downton...
The World of Leonard Cohen, edited by David R. Shumway Cambridge University Press, 2026 The mystical troubadour, poet, novelist, occasional...
If the attempts to facilitate Jewish mass emigration from Canada were just another way to make bank off of Jewish panic, it would be barely...
What if you make a Woody Allen movie, but from the Annie Hall perspective, rather than the Alvy Singer one? This question was answered in one way with...
What oh what is going on at PEN America? It is a time-honoured case of, there’s no pleasing everybody. And I must alas count myself among the...
Last week offered a case study in how differently the world treats different kinds of conduct in the Israel-Gaza conflict. On Monday, a senior United...
For much of the Medieval period, Jews in the West were subject to compulsory segregation, confined to urban ghettos in order to isolate, control, and...
Downward mobility has never had a good name. Which is sad, really, because it is not immoral, but rather the inevitable outcome of a society with...
On June 22, an independent video game developer (read: one person, perhaps in a dimly lit basement) published a PC game called Goyslop on the popular...
There is no reason to think I’d be discussing this, the latest in North American antisemitism, above all others, if it were not for its too-perfect...
Since Oct. 7, there has been much discussion surrounding antisemitism in the North American literary realm. In the winter of 2024, the literary...
“[A colleague] felt the need to remind me that criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. I hadn’t said otherwise. I had not even mentioned...
The summer I turned 10, my parents thought a really cool family road trip would be to attend the NDP founding convention in Ottawa. My dad was a...
When it comes to generating global headlines, Canada and Israel are typically about as far apart as two countries can get. And yet since Oct. 7, the...
There’s a scene in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) that I have had stuck in my head for the past week, given its surprising relevance to...
“It’s not personal… It’s strictly business.” That’s the self-deception Michael Corleone coolly lays on his brother when he declares, in a...
Graham Platner, he of the Nazi chest tattoo (since adjusted), the Democrats’ very own Trumpy, post-woke bearer of red flags, won a primary election,...
The race for mayor only truly began once Olivia Chow ended months of completely needless speculation about whether she would run again. Spoiler:...
Shocking exactly no one, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend the city’s Israel Day parade. If a politician refuses to attend the cultural...
Sitting in the audience of Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, I found myself holding back tears for much of the...
Having devoted much of my time in a French doctoral program at New York University to studying antisemitism, it has been a strange experience to see...
R.F. Kuang is a star novelist with an impressive list of bestsellers and awards. After establishing herself as a fantasy writer in the late 2010s, in...
After stonewalling for two and a half years in the face of being accused of every human rights abuse in the book and a few that haven’t even been...
Note: This article contains spoilers for the TV show The Boys. There is only one explicitly Jewish character in The Boys, Amazon Prime Video’s...
There are books that entertain, books that educate, and books that force us to examine the moral condition of the institutions around us. Hank...
My interests in Britcom reruns, Jewish matters, straight womanhood, and department stores tend to be pretty compartmentalized. Yet they all converge...
By late in the day on Oct. 7, 2023, I already felt the world begin to crack down the middle and people scramble frantically to one side or another to...
The splashy takeaway from Emily Lawford’s New Statesman cover story, “Meet the Angry Young Women: Across Britain a radical new feminism is...
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