Sadly enough, Israel seems to be the only country in the world where a pre-modern Orthodox rabbinate, in collusion with the government, delegitimizes the Conservative and Reform streams of Judaism. It’s not only scandalous and shameful, but bound to widen the already growing rift between Israel and the Diaspora. In recent years, the government of […]
Zosa Szajkowski was one of the strangest, most tragic figures in the annals of academia. A devoted collector of French Judaica and a pioneer in the field of French Jewish history, he moonlighted as a thief, stealing priceless documents from state archives, synagogues and private Jewish libraries and selling them to institutions such as Columbia […]
Allegations by Israel that the manager of a Christian aid organization in the Gaza Strip funnelled millions of dollars to the military wing of Hamas are extremely serious. This flagrant misuse of charitable funds raises hard and uncomfortable questions whether World Vision — an international Christian aid group with headquarters in the United States and […]
The Green Party of Canada set a disturbing precedent at its biennial convention in Ottawa on August 7 when it voted to adopt the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) platform. Seven months after the Canadian parliament strongly condemned the BDS movement, the Greens became the first political party in Canada to embrace it. It’s a somber […]
On July 28, 1948, my parents and I arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax as displaced persons following World War II. I had turned three years old during the voyage. We travelled on a Greek ship, the Nea Hellas, which departed from Genoa, Italy, earlier that month. My parents were Polish Jews whose families had […]
Ukraine, subjugated and brutalized by communism and fascism, seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991 and finally achieved its independence and freedom. But since then, in its attempts to break with its past as a servile Soviet republic and embrace a modern European identity, Ukraine has embarked on a crooked path and taken to whitewashing its […]
Bryan Cranston is back in the drug business. In the popular Netflix series, Breaking Bad, he played a high school chemistry teacher who moonlights as a methamphetamine manufacturer and distributor. Now, in Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator, which opens in Canada on August 12, he portrays a U.S. federal agent posing as a money launderer in […]
Capitalism in its rawest incarnation rears its ugly head in Equity, Meera Menon’s Wall Street thriller due to open in Canada on August 12. Tough-minded wheelers and dealers, their eyes on the main chance, appear and reappear in this hard-eyed account of an investment banker eager to advance her career as she cobbles together an […]
Sugar can be a killer, linked as it is to Type 2 diabetes, heart ailments, fatty liver disease and obesity. Excessive consumption of sugar can also lead to the onset of oral health issues such as tooth decay, cavities, and gum disease. Incidentally, whether you are someone who tends to enjoy too many sweet treats […]
Scores of civilians in Turkey have been killed in attacks attributed to Islamic State in the past year. The worst of them were perpetrated by suicide bombers in the city of Suruc in July 2015, in Ankara last October, and in Istanbul airport almost two months ago. Due in large part to these and other […]