Howie Silbiger
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It’s Time For Armed Guards At Synagogues
Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year got terrifying for nearly two dozen worshippers who had gathered for the Kol Nidre prayer at the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario. As…
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Little Orphan Annie and the Politically Orphaned Jew.
Annie is coming back to Broadway in 2027, fifty years after it first opened there, which will undoubtedly mean another generation of children singing “Tomorrow,” another round of Daddy Warbucks bald caps and probably…
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Former Shin Bet Chief: October 7th Could Have Been Avoided
For almost three years, Israelis have been asking how Hamas managed to cross the Gaza border on October 7, 2023, murder approximately 1,200 people, take 251 hostages and overrun communities and military positions before…
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Loyola Gives Up Subsidies, Jewish Schools Struggle
Loyola High School has served Montreal’s Jesuit Catholic community for more than a century. Now it has decided that it would rather walk away from millions of dollars in Quebec government funding than change…
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Canada’s Answer to Jew Hatred: Build the Jews a Bigger Fence
Canada is a free, open and multicultural society. We know this because we have been told it so many times that it has practically become part of the national anthem. Diversity is our strength,…
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Two Mohalim, 98 Babies and a Belgian Criminal Case
By.Howie Silbiger Belgium has not banned brit milah. It has found another way to make performing one potentially criminal. Two Jewish mohalim in Antwerp are facing the possibility of a criminal trial after prosecutors…
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September 9, 2002: Concordia University, One Riot and Decades of the Same Politics
Every time something happens at Concordia University in Montreal involving Israel, there is another round of concern about what has happened to the university, how things have become so polarized and how Jewish students…
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Apparently, Nazi vs. Jew is now Entertainment
You would think you were in Germany in the 1930s, but nope, America, 2026. Last week, at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida a man unfurled a giant Nazi flag during a boxing match,…
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A Hollywood Bar Mitzvah and a Very Jewish Lesson
I had almost forgotten about Keeping Up with the Steins until I came across it again recently. It came out in 2006 and it is not one of the great Jewish films of all…
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Welcome to Concordia: Palestinian Activism Now Part of the Orientation Experience
After nearly three years of anti-Israel protests, occupations, vandalism, student strikes and slogans that have crossed repeatedly into open Jew hatred, including “Kill the Jews” graffiti and a protester telling Jewish and pro-Israel demonstrators…