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Thursday, May 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 “What, ultimately, is the elemental glue that binds Israel into a people?” Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The famous rabbinic dictum has it that כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה “all Israelites are guarantors one for the other,” or in other words, that each is responsible to “pay” […]

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Thursday, May 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Shaul Magid Times of Israel, May 23, 2023 “As I understand Shagar, he is suggesting that revelation changes everything. But while Badiou suggested that the event changes everything by destroying what came before, Shagar suggests that what existed before the event is not destroyed, but transformed by it.”   With the conclusion of Passover last […]

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Thursday, May 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Elliot J.  Cosgrove Sapir, Vol 3, Autumn 2021   “Mitzvot are the sacred shibboleths by which Jews build conscious community.”   For a people as numerically modest as the Jews, we have more than our fair share of civic, cultural, and advocacy organizations in service of Jewish continuity. From historical societies to Holocaust memorials, […]

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Wednesday, May 24th 2023

                   MEDIA-OCRITY Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia:  Peggy Noonan, WSJ, May 18, 2023   “[The Durham Report on the FBI] sounds about right. Yet I still don’t know what to think about Trump/Russia and am not satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it . . . Mr. […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES LISTEN:  Antisemitic Incidents Seem Disproportionately High in Canada. How Is This Possible?:  Canadian Jewish News, May 1, 2023 — When B’nai Brith released its annual antisemitism report on April 17, documenting 2,769 incidents of Jew hatred in Canada last year, we wondered why the numbers were so high. After all, the Canadian government’s […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Avi Benlolo National Post, May 5, 2023 “In the United Church and in many other “progressive” circles, there is a disconnect between understanding the antisemitism that allowed the Holocaust to happen and the anti-Israel boycotts that have re-energized modern antisemitism.”   As an academic and educator in Holocaust studies, I have given much thought over […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, May 19, 2023 “Although there was an almost insignificant decrease from last year, antisemitic incidents continue to occur at an unacceptable and dangerous pace. Frankly, the amount of hate directed at Canadian Jews is shameful.”   The number of antisemitic hate crimes in Toronto, Canada recorded in 2022 remained above pre-pandemic […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Andrea Freedman Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 16, 2022 “… it came to light that Canadian MPs from all parties (Bloc Québécois, Conservatives, Greens, Liberals and NDP), including federal cabinet minister Omar Alghabra and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, attended a reception on Parliament Hill at which a Holocaust denier and terrorist sympathizer, Nazih Khatatba, was also present.” Less than a […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Alex Goldenberg and Becca Wertman-Traub National Post, May 13, 2023 “This is not just an American phenomenon, as similar trends have emerged in Canada.”   If there is anything positive from Kanye West’s anti-Jewish screeds last fall, it is perhaps that more people are now aware of both fringe and mainstream actors who, with the […]

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Friday, May 19th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

CELEBRATING YOM YERUSHALAYIM:  MAY 18TH – 19TH Why Jews Speak of Memory, Not History:  Meir Y. Soloveichik, Commentary Magazine, June 2023 — On a recent visit to Israel, I toured the Museum of the Underground Prisoners, in Acre. It is housed in the Ottoman fortress that the British utilized as their most important prison during their colonial […]

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Friday, May 19th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

:  Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, May 16, 2023 “… the most sensible interpretation of the evidence Durham has amassed is not that the FBI, in evaluating its collusion evidence, failed to weigh intercepted Russian intelligence about that strategy. It is that the FBI was well aware of Clinton’s strategy, fully expected Clinton to be […]

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Friday, May 19th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

 Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations, May 16, 2023 While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top […]