Opinion
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Barbie: A Menorah, a Nose and 67 Years of Assimilation
Mattel has released its first official Chanukah Barbie, and almost immediately people started arguing about her nose. The doll is part of the company’s 2026 Holiday Sweater collection, with two Barbies dressed for Christmas…
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At Least This Time Germany Is Warning the Jews
Majdanek is one of the best preserved Nazi death camps in existence. Its barracks, gas chambers and crematorium are still there, and visitors have been told that the camp is so intact it could…
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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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Canada, the Jews and the Myth of Permanent Acceptance
By Mayer Wochyniak Canada’s relationship with its Jews got off to a fairly simple start. Jews were not particularly welcome. Under New France, the colony was officially Catholic, and anyone who was not Catholic…
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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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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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Have I Given My Children a Judaism Worth Holding Onto
By Leah Rosen (a pen name) I used to think assimilation was something obvious. It was a Jewish child marrying someone who wasn’t Jewish, a family giving up the holidays, or grandchildren who no…