By Howie Silbiger Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The words “Never Again” are spoken slowly and solemnly…And then the day ends, and the chants begin. This is the contradiction that defines Jewish…
Category: opinion
When Leaders Sell Moral Authority and Jews Pay the Price
By Howie Silbiger 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…
Canada Is Failing Its Jews
By Howie Silbiger 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…
Analysis: What François Legault’s Departure Means for Quebec’s Jews
By Joseph Marshall The resignation of François Legault closes a chapter that shaped Jewish life in Quebec more than many people like to admit. His years in office were not defined by…
Jews Are Training With Guns Because No One Else Is Protecting Them
By Howie Silbiger 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…
Canada’s Jewish Moment of Reckoning
By Howie Silbiger 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…
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….
Government Bill Threatens to Erase Jewish Life From Schools
By Howie Silbiger 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…
Federally Sponsored Nakba Exhibit Becomes the Latest Product of Years of Liberal Political Engineering
By Howie Silbiger 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…
Opinion: The Senate gave Hate a Microphone and Told Jews to Deal With It
By Howie Silbiger, Editor-in-Chief What happened in Ottawa was not a mistake, not a misunderstanding, and not some innocent booking error. The Senate of Canada knowingly handed over its space to a…