An exhibition on Auschwitz-Birkenau has landed at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto for an extended stay. Created by Musealia, co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, and developed by an international panel of curators and historians, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions ever presented […]
Israel’s “temporary” occupation of territory in southern Syria is turning into something more permanent. With the the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last December, Israel went into high gear in an attempt to weaken Syria, one of its arch enemies. Israel bombed Syrian military assets, most of which are Russian in origin, and unilaterally […]
Seventeen months after the October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still stubbornly refuses to create an independent commission to review the events that culminated in the deadliest single day in Israel’s history. On that morning, some 3,000 Hamas terrorists attacked a string of kibbutzim, towns, army bases and a […]
The fate of the Gaza Strip hangs in the balance. Gaza, invaded by the Israeli army after Hamas’ massacre in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, has descended into a twilight zone since January 19, the day the ceasefire negotiated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt kicked in. While the Israel-Hamas war has stopped, […]
Wilm Hosenfeld, a German army officer during World War II, was a silent hero. Once a fervent Nazi, Hosenfeld parted ways with Adolf Hitler’s fascist regime while serving in German-occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945. During this period, he kept a secret diary in which he expressed his rage toward Germany’s mistreatment of Polish Catholics […]
President Donald Trump has unwisely declared economic warfare on Canada. In doing so, he is recklessly upending and potentially ruining the United States’ historically cordial and mutually profitable relationship with its closest neighbor and ally. Trump’s destabilizing policy is causing volatility, chaos, pain, puzzlement and uncertainty in both countries. True to his threats, he has […]
Donald Trump seems to have abandoned Ukraine, a U.S. ally, in pursuit of his “America First” policy and sided unequivocally with Russia, one of America’s adversaries. It is a jaw-dropping moment. Six weeks after his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States, Trump has revealed his true colors as a self-centred, disruptive and […]
Israel’s three-part ceasefire agreement with Hamas, brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt in January, is crumbling, raising the distinct possibility that Israel may well resume the war in the Gaza Strip. Negotiations on the second phase were supposed to begin a month ago, before the first phase ended on March 1. But the […]
Two American Jewish cousins embark on a road trip in Poland, their ancestral homeland, in the quest to connect with their family roots. This is the alluring theme of Jesse Eisenberg’s enticing feature film, A Real Pain, which is a contender for two Oscars at tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood. Their odyssey is facilitated […]
It goes without saying that the president of a university student union should be a measured and circumspect person, not a polarizing figure who angers and alienates students, besmirches the university’s image, and generates heated controversy. Somar Abuaziza, the newly installed president of the York Federation of Students (YFS) at York University in Toronto, has […]