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Yom Hashoah V’hagvurah as backdrop for renewed calls to ‘Gas the Jews’

Dr. Dan Diker is the president of the JCPA (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) and an expert in hybrid warfare and in combating anti-semitism. He wrote an op-ed this week entitled Hamas’ Education of the Ivy League that appeared in

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What this uneasy hour in history calls for

In the update last week, we pointed to the soundness of professional and moral judgment by Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, in directing the Peel District School Board to reverse its decision to mark “Nakba Day of Remembrance” day in

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What this uneasy hour in history calls for

In the update last week, we pointed to the soundness of professional and moral judgment by Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, in directing the Peel District School Board to reverse its decision to mark “Nakba Day of Remembrance” day in

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The Seder will be different this year

Recounting the Exodus from Egypt some 3,600 years ago, will be more difficult this year than in any year since World War II and perhaps 1948. Sitting around the Seder table with people we love and who love us, some

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‘Live your Jewish story’

Gary Rosenblatt, was the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York for more than a quarter of a century, until 2019. Before he accepted the dual position in New York, Rosenblatt had edited and entirely revised for

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Suggested duties going forward

We direct readers’ attention, once again, to the insights of Adam Hummel, a GTA lawyer and human rights activist. Last month he addressed a gathering at a Toronto synagogue in which he propagated seven duties to guide the community’s next

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Opportunity lost, again

In September 2021, Cardus, a non-partisan, faith-based think tank, published a study of the potential cost to the Government of Ontario of funding Ontario’s independent schools. (Funding all Students: A Comparative Economic Analysis of the Fiscal Cost to Support Students

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October 7, 2023….. Purim 2024

It is on many minds this year that celebrating Purim with its customary joy and child-orientated jest, will be somewhat difficult. The events of October 7 were too horrific. In defence of their right to live sovereign, in their ancestral

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Date set for Ontario’s appeal of Judge Papageorgiou’s decision

A date has been set for Ontario’s appeal of the 46-page decision by Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou that denied the province’s request to dismiss GAJE’s application seeking fairness in educational funding before it has actually been argued on its merits. The

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From observers to activists, from onlookers to advocates

Earlier this week, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt delivered the 2024 State of Hate address at the “Never Is Now” Conference in New York. In just over 31 fiery, unapologetic minutes, Greenblatt chronicled the difficult truth of life for Jews in,

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