Analysis
Tuesday, December 18th 2018
Machla Abramovitz Community, Dec., 2018 …To assess the current state of Israel’s security, we sat down with former IDF Chief of Staff General Moshe (“Boogie”) Ya’alon, following his keynote address at the 30th anniversary gala of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (CIJR) in Montreal. General Ya’alon, 68, was born in Haifa, joined the Nahal […]
Thursday, December 13th 2018
On Sunday, November 11, 2018, Remembrance Day, Doris Epstein and myself, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s Toronto Co-Chairs, drove out on a cold and windy Sunday night to Grace Life Centre in Scarborough. A Candlelight Vigil in commemoration of the victims of murders at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh was being held. Doris and I, […]
Friday, December 7th 2018 / Friday, December 7th 2018
And some there be which have no memorial, who are perished as though they had never been. Ecclesiasticus 44:9 We are remembering today the beginning of World War II for the United States, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, “A date which will live in infamy”, as […]
Monday, November 26th 2018 / Tuesday, November 27th 2018
For a PDF of Israfax 297 click the following link EDITORIAL: FIDDLING ON THE ROOF: COPING WITH THE OLD, AND THE NEW, ANTISEMITISM Frederick Krantz On Wednesday, 14 November, the New York Times recounts, at the end of the first act of Fiddler on the Roof at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore, […]
Monday, November 26th 2018
On Wednesday, 14 November, the New York Times recounts, at the end of the first act of Fiddler on the Roof at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore, Md., after Russian antisemites stage a pogrom against residents of a Jewish shtetl celebrating a wedding, a man jumped up in the balcony, repeatedly yelling “Heil Hitler! Heil […]
Monday, November 19th 2018 / Monday, November 26th 2018
Unlike most countries, the United States holds legislative elections midway through a president’s term. As a result the country tends to be in campaign mode most of the time. Indeed the 2020 presidential campaign has started and the Democrats are beginning to think about their prospects for the presidential nomination. If there is one generalization […]
Sunday, October 28th 2018 / Wednesday, November 28th 2018
The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research condemns the vicious murders of eleven Jews in the Etz Chaim/Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and extends its profound sympathy to the families of the victims and wounded, including the courageous police who, risking their own live, rushed to defend the congregation and disarmed the assailant. Rising […]
Wednesday, October 10th 2018
On Topic Links Haley’s Resignation a Loss, But Administration Still Pro-Israel: Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, Oct. 9, 2018 Look Who’s Back! In His New Book, a Vigilant Stephen Harper Offers Advice for the Age of Trump: John Ivison, National Post, Oct. 9, 2018 How Iran Plans to Take Gaza: Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, Oct. […]
Monday, September 10th 2018 / Tuesday, November 27th 2018
On July 19, the Knesset of Israel engrossed as part of “the Basic Law” of Israel language defining Israel as a “nation-state.” From Israel’s beginnings, friends of the State have been twisting themselves into semantic knots trying to explain to the world how Israel can be, now and forever, (in the words of Israel’s Declaration […]
For a PDF of Israfax 296 click the following link Editorial: Celebrating Israel’s 70th (And CIJR’s 30th): “Good Arms“ [IDF] and “Good Laws” [Diplomacy] Ensure Survival, and Flourishing, of Jewish State Frederick Krantz CIJR’s two Galas, celebrating its 30th and Israel’s 70th, anniversaries, span modern Israel’s development. One, in Montreal on October […]
Friday, March 30th 2018 / Thursday, November 29th 2018
After about a quarter-century of public advocacy for Christian Zionism it still throws me off-balance when people come up to the platform and ask whether it isn’t a contradiction in terms to be a Christian and a Zionist. In fact, the sin of wilful contradiction belongs on the heads of those Christians who reject the […]
Friday, March 30th 2018 / Wednesday, November 28th 2018
As the democratic Jewish state of Israel turns seventy, what is the historical-societal balance sheet? What is the meaning of modern Israel—which only three generations ago had to fight for its very existence against five invading Arab armies—both for the Jewish people and the world? First, modern Israel is today one of the […]
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