Howie Silbiger
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When Leaders Sell Moral Authority and Jews Pay the Price
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney went to Davos and did something Canadian leaders rarely do in public, he told the truth about the world. Not the comforting fiction of a “rules-based international order,” not…
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Canada Is Failing Its Jews
When reports began circulating that the United States was openly discussing asylum protections for Jews in the United Kingdom, it landed with a dull thud rather than a shocking revelation. The idea that Jews…
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Guardian reports Trump administration discussed asylum for UK Jews
A report published this week by The Guardian has sent a jolt through Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic, claiming that the administration of US president Donald Trump has discussed the possibility…
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Mordechai Antal, Educator and School Board Commissioner, Dies at 60
Mordechai Antal, a Montreal Jewish educator, labour leader and English Montreal School Board commissioner, died suddenly, he was 60. Antal collapsed after suffering a heart attack while delivering a shiur in synagogue, a passing…
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Jews Are Training With Guns Because No One Else Is Protecting Them
When bullets ripped through the doors of Yeshiva Gedola High School on an early November morning in 2023, it felt unreal, like something that happened somewhere else, to someone else. When more bullets tore…
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Canada’s Jewish Moment of Reckoning
There is no longer any honest way to pretend that what Jews are experiencing in Canada and around the world is a series of isolated incidents. It is a pattern. It is sustained. It…
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Opinion: When Jews Need Guards, Democracy Has Failed
By Howie Silbiger I have lived long enough in the diaspora to recognize a pattern that many of us did not want to see. It is not just that antiJewism is back. It is…
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The Myth of the Hidden Nazi: Documents Show Mengele Was Never in Hiding
It is one thing to know that Argentina sheltered Nazi fugitives. It is another to watch it unfold, piece by piece, in government folders that were never meant to be widely seen. It took…
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Government Bill Threatens to Erase Jewish Life From Schools
Quebec is preparing to introduce a sweeping new secularism bill and Jewish schools across the province know exactly what is coming. The government intends to outlaw prayer rooms in universities and colleges and expand…
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Federally Sponsored Nakba Exhibit Becomes the Latest Product of Years of Liberal Political Engineering
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has scheduled in 2026, a full Nakba exhibit at a time when Jewish Canadians are facing the most disturbing rise in anti Jewish hostility in the country’s recent…