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Friday, March 10th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Alexander Raskin Jersey Dying Well Group, Feb. 2, 2023 “Since Trudeau was elected in 2015, his government has single-handedly created the largest, most permissive euthanasia program in the world.” It was supposed to be easy. If journalists asked the Honourable David Lametti, Canada’s minister of justice, a difficult question about euthanasia, he simply […]
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Jane Stannus Spectator Australia, Feb. 14, 2023 “… with the support for euthanasia comes the insidious pseudo-religious pressure to take one’s own life as a noble act of self-immolation on the altar of society.” Two cheers for a brief hiatus in the Canadian stampede towards suicide for all. Earlier this month, David […]
Chris Selley WSJ, Dec. 30, 2023 “Canada, however, is bizarrely obsessed with “equal rights”—and far more deferential than it should be to hopelessly out-of-touch judges who have driven both the legalization and expansion of euthanasia.” Canada’s Supreme Court held in 2015 that people with “a grievous and irremediable medical condition” had a […]
Maria Cheng AP, Aug. 11, 2022 “Canada prides itself on being liberal and accepting, “but what’s happening with euthanasia suggests there may be a darker side.” Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears […]
Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Douglas Altabef Israel National News, Feb 26, 2023 “It is this take no prisoners attitude that makes the protesters’ professed obsession with the preservation of a liberal democracy seem like an Orwellian projection.” One need not be a film director nor a dance choreographer to notice that the wave of protests against proposed judicial […]
Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Michael B. Mukasey WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “in view of the court’s sweeping self-imposed authority, it is difficult at times to describe the current condition as the rule of law.” Judges and attorneys general throughout the world—I’ve served in both capacities in the U.S.—wield substantial authority. In any sound legal system, such authority is subject […]
Caroline Glick Newsweek, Mar. 2, 2023 “The Netanyahu government’s program for judicial reform is astounding for its modesty. If passed in full, it will simply realign Israel’s currently unchecked judiciary with the checked judiciaries of the vast majority of Western democracies.” In Israel as in states throughout the Western world, the political Left is an ecosystem […]
David Isaac JNS, Mar. 7, 2023 “Contrary to the claims of its opponents, who say that it will strip Israel of its checks and balances, judicial reform will restore the checks and balances that have been stripped away by a court system that has arrogated powers beyond its purview.” Justice Minister Yariv Levin, in […]
Monday, March 6th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Meir Y. Soloveitchik Commentary Magazine, March 2020 “What is Mordecai’s true identity? What is Esther’s?” The biblical Book of Esther and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are opposites. One describes the Jewish triumph over anti-Semitism, the other the anti-Semite’s triumph over the Jew. Yet there are similarities between the two tales. Both emphasize inversions, a turning […]
Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023 “It’s hard to imagine what it would have been like, not only to have been a child watching the Holocaust unfold from afar, but immediately thereafter, watching the perilous fight for a Jewish state, surrounded, as this text makes clear, by yet more enemies, more Hamans, intent […]
Monday, March 6th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Meir Soloveitchik NY Times, Mar. 8, 2020 “Precisely because of the constancy of Jewish vulnerability, we glorify Esther’s initiative, courage, and wisdom to inculcate these same virtues in our posterity.” A perplexing paradox lies at the heart of Purim, the holiday celebrated this week by Jews around the world. No day is more […]
Rabbi Ari Kahn Orthodox Union, Mar. 20, 2019 “The profile of Achashverosh that emerges is of a weak personality tormented by the objects of his own desire.” Working in the barn from the break of dawn was exhausting. Cleaning the barn, sweeping the refuse, and caring for the horses had become his […]
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