Analysis
Friday, June 10th 2016 / Friday, June 10th 2016
The festival of Shavuot underlines the spiritually significant lesson that the release from bondage and winning of political freedom does not constitute freedom unless it culminates in the spiritual discipline of duty to Am Israel, and Israel’s acceptance of the Torah. Na'aseh v'nishma: “We will do and we […]
Wednesday, May 25th 2016 / Wednesday, May 25th 2016
On May 12th 2016, the Montreal community gathered to celebrate sixty-eighth birthday at yet another beautiful celebration at Phillips Square. Of course, CIJR was front and center to join in on the festivities and march from Phillips Square to Place du Canada to show our support for Israel. Thanks to everyone who came out […]
Monday, April 25th 2016 / Monday, April 25th 2016
The Arab Middle East today remains beholden to its foundational culture, Bedouin tribal culture. We see Arabs to this day cleaving to their kin groups, their tribes, their religious sects, manifesting in their actions group loyalty, support of closer over more distant, and balanced opposition, each party defined as much by whom […]
Thursday, April 21st 2016 / Thursday, April 21st 2016
In Loving Memory of Malca z”l “And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.” (Passover Haggadah, [Exodus 1.7]) “Even the poorest Jew, a recipient of charity, must, on the eve of Passover, eat only in a […]
Wednesday, February 24th 2016
There is currently much tension in the European Union both among member countries and in their relationship with EU leaders in Brussels. As a result, the continued existence of the Schengen open borders agreement, the Euro and even the EU itself has been brought into question by leading politicians, such as EU president […]
Thursday, February 11th 2016 / Thursday, February 11th 2016
To the already-crowded military field in Syria, with its various Sunni Muslim and Alawite-Shiite militias, Iranian, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Russian actors, as well as the U.S., British, and French-led allied air coalition, we now learn that both Saudi Arabia and Turkey may also soon be directly involved. This fraught and […]
Monday, January 18th 2016 / Monday, January 18th 2016
One skill of a true statesman is the ability to learn from the experience of other countries and peoples. The number of European politicians who have managed to learn anything from Israel’s experiences over the last decades seems minimal. The outbreak and handling of the recent mass sex assaults in Cologne and other […]
Wednesday, January 13th 2016 / Friday, January 29th 2016
Ability to manipulate language is crucial if a journalist is to transmit a biased message. Apparently Associated Press journalists have both the ability to manipulate language and the guidelines driving them to do so. AP apparently believes that Palestinians can never be terrorists, however many Israeli soldiers and civilians they kill or attempt […]
Monday, January 11th 2016 / Monday, January 18th 2016
On November 28, 2015, Tawadros II, the 118th Coptic Pope, the leader of the worldwide body of Egyptian Orthodox Christians, travelled with a delegation of other Coptic clerics from Cairo to Jerusalem in order to preside over the funeral for Anba Abraham, the Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Near […]
Sunday, January 10th 2016 / Monday, January 18th 2016
Quebec's new Bill 59, now in progress toward passage into law, has been called by the National Post, the gravest threat to freedom of expression in Canada today. It would give new powers to the Quebec Human Rights Commission (QHRC) to combat hate speech, in particular, speech considered Islamophobic, by censoring words that […]
Thursday, December 24th 2015 / Monday, January 18th 2016
While Ottawa focuses only on bringing the Syrian migrants, continuing to ignore the problems inherent in their decision, they are ignoring hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim minorities, targeted for immediate genocide by ISIS. At the top of the list are the ancient Yazidi people, then the Chaldo Assyrian Christians. But all […]
Tuesday, December 8th 2015 / Tuesday, December 8th 2015
For many centuries Jews have been accused of embodying absolute evil by their most vile enemies. This motif formed the unifying thread passing through blood libels, accusations of poisoning, conspiracy theories involving Jewish financial and military manipulations, and suchlike. The central hate tactic used was frequent emotive, often religion-oriented repetition. […]
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