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Doorstep Postings: The predictable trajectory of Avi Lewis

Doorstep Postings: The predictable trajectory of Avi Lewis

As the guy who presided over the New Democratic Party’s decline to fourth party status and a single digit seat count, Jagmeet Singh is a complete...

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Josh Lieblein

My ‘Wicked’ Hevruta became my best friend on my journey to the rabbinate

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...

23.01.2026 30

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Yedida Eisenstat

‘JAP’: slur or subculture?

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...

21.01.2026 30

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Opinion: When language gives permission

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...

17.01.2026 20

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Michael Frankfort

Jewish bakery chain stands accused of participating in Jewish food festival

“We see our struggles for fair pay, respect, and safety as connected to struggles against genocide and forces of exploitation around the world.”...

13.01.2026 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Doorstep Postings: The limits of Canadian anti-Zionism

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...

09.01.2026 10

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Josh Lieblein

The week the world fell apart

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,...

06.01.2026 40

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Opinion: White supremacists: new threat or variation of an existing one?

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...

19.12.2025 20

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Barbara Okun

2025 in review: the semi-conscious uncoupling of the Canadian and American Jewish experiences

The big Canadian story of 2025 is an offshoot of the global one, namely the second Donald Trump presidency, from January onwards. Onwards into...

16.12.2025 30

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

On the newish Jewish tradition of nitpicking big-box Judaica merch

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...

09.12.2025 30

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The real function of antisemitism: common ground

“After months of warning voters against Zohran Mamdani, President Trump said he found common ground with the mayor-elect in an Oval Office...

03.12.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Two pictures: they are different, yet the same

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...

28.11.2025 20

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Bernie M. Farber

German gentile finally put in charge of struggling Jewish studies program

At Indiana University, a professor named Günther Jikeli suddenly replaced Mark Roseman as head of the Jewish studies program. Arno Rosenfeld...

26.11.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Opinion: When unions go activist, Jews suffer

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....

20.11.2025 20

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Toby Moneit

What should a Jewish novel be?

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...

19.11.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Doorstep Postings: Canada needs to win against Trump

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...

14.11.2025 20

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Josh Lieblein

‘Nobody Wants This,’ an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism

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...

12.11.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Zohran Mamdani is not Nick Fuentes

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...

05.11.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The ‘secret Nazis’ of American politics

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...

28.10.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

What happens when a Zionist rabbi and a Palestinian peace activist sit down and talk?

Ever since Oct. 7, 2023, Muslim and Jewish communities in Canada have been torn apart. Dialogue groups disbanded. Friendships bottomed out. Campuses...

22.10.2025 60

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In Good Faith

Will Donald Trump or Jia Tolentino bring peace to the Middle East?

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...

21.10.2025 40

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Doorstep Postings: what Hamas won

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...

17.10.2025 60

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Josh Lieblein

Opinion: Why Canada must keep pushing for peace in the Middle East

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...

12.10.2025 90

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Yaara Saks

Opinion: Hate crime law a tentative step forward

Canada has taken a long overdue step in strengthening our ability to confront hate. The federal government’s new legislation not only creates a...

10.10.2025 10

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Bernie M. Farber

The Manchester synagogue attack inspires ‘her skirt was too short’ antisemitism

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...

07.10.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Proud Jewish schoolgirl meets tycoon of Jewish background in Emma Forrest’s ‘Father Figure’

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...

30.09.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Mark Carney’s first Rosh Hashanah

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...

29.09.2025 20

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Rabbi Jarrod Grover

The ‘real’ cancel culture

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,...

23.09.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Opinion: MAID in conflict with Jewish values

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...

19.09.2025 20

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Seth Winberg

From ‘never again’ to ‘never mind’

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...

16.09.2025 20

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Opinion: Prime Minister Carney must draw a red line on antisemitism

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...

12.09.2025 10

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Alan H. Kessel