The Order of Canada, a Canadian government award that “recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to the nation,” is given to Canadian citizens who have “enriched the lives of others, made a difference to this country,” and inspired a sense of unity among Canadians. Five years ago, Mohamad Fakih, an immigrant from […]
Although Jews comprise about one percent of Canada’s population, they have been the victims of 70 percent of recorded hate crimes in the past few years. In 2023, Statistics Canada reported a whopping 71 percent increase in antisemitic incidents over 2022. Last year, a record number of 6,219 incidents were recorded, the highest since 1982. […]
Gentrification refreshes and livens up a neighborhood, but often displaces residents who cannot afford far higher rents. Jaffa, a southern extension of Tel Aviv, finds itself exactly in this position today, judging by Jaffa: A Guide To Gentrification, a film by Osnat Trabelsi, Karen Shayou and Lavi Vanounou. It is now available on the ChaiFlicks […]
The Houthis remain undaunted and unbowed, much to Israel’s ire and frustration. This pro-Iranian, ideologically-driven, and stubborn militia in Yemen continues to fire missiles and drones at Israel despite sixteen Israeli retaliatory air and drone strikes since last summer. These have targeted critical infrastructure such as ports, power stations, oil refineries, and northern Yemen’s only […]
The United Nations has finally woken up to the reality that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is little more than a white elephant that should be retired to pasture. Acting on this realization, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on August 28 to terminate UNIFIL’s peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon by […]
October 7, 2023, a day of infamy when hordes of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel in an unprecedented attack, was Marsha Lederman’s “last normal night.” Lederman is a child of Holocaust survivors from Poland who grew up haunted by nightmares of being hunted by Nazis. This “ludicrous, irrational fear came to life” as Hamas gunmen wreaked […]
Australia’s bold decision to expel Iranian diplomats and break diplomatic relations with Iran over its involvement in antisemitic attacks in Australian cities since 2023 is a jolting reminder that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a rogue regime capable of anything. Its attempt to create chaos and discord in a Western democratic nation, where Jews […]
Israel, sporadically over the years, has been the object of fierce and unrelenting international criticism, but the global opprobrium Israel is currently facing appears to be unprecedented. Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 aroused widespread anger. The third cross-border war between Israel and Hamas in 2014 created an uproar that caused reputational harm to Israel. […]
On January 25, 2011, the Los Angeles-based journalist and publisher Elio Zarmati received a phone call from an old friend in Switzerland he had grown up with in Egypt. Their conversation was about the popular uprising, centered in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, that had erupted in Egypt and would lead to the resignation of […]
Canonized by the Vatican in 1992, five decades after he was murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe was by all accounts a saintly man and a proud Pole. He was incarcerated in Auschwitz in May 1941, when virtually all of its inmates were Polish political prisoners and its image as […]