By Joseph Marshall Cote Saint Luc has a new mayor, and it happened in the most dramatic way possible. After a campaign that divided the city and a recount that had residents…
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Passport Office Told Applicant Israel Cannot Be Listed as Birthplace
By Joseph Marshall A Montreal woman seeking a passport renewal was informed by staff at the Guy Favreau Passport Office that her birthplace, Kfar Saba Israel, could not be entered on her…
A Brutal Attack in Milan and a Chilling Warning for Jews Everywhere
By Joseph Marshall It happened in the middle of the afternoon in one of the busiest train stations in Europe. A group of American Jewish tourists stood under the departures board at…
BBC Implodes: Leadership Falls Amid Trump Scandal and Years of Anti-Israel Bias
By William Rafael Smyth They did not fall on swords. They were pushed, dragged and exposed. The collapse of BBC leadership arrived like a long awaited reckoning. Director General Tim Davie and…
Broken Glass in Toronto: Eighty-Seven Years After Kristallnacht, Jewish Students Attacked for Speaking
By Joeseph Marshall On November 5, just days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a mob of anti-Israel activists stormed a Students Supporting Israel event near Bay and…
Thirty Years Since Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination
By Joseph Marshall Thirty years ago this week, Israel was shaken by the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On the night of November 4, 1995, at the end of a peace…
The Pickle Fountain: Proof That Humanity Has Officially Lost It
By Howie Silbiger, Editor in Chief Somewhere on the internet, a perfectly good chocolate fountain met its briny fate. Out went the sweet, in went the sour, and suddenly the world was…
Montreal Chooses Familiar Faces as Brownstein, Levi and Martinez Ferrada Hold the Line
By Joseph Marshall Montrealers went to the polls and when the ballots were counted, little had changed across the island. The faces are mostly familiar, the politics mostly predictable, and the promises…
Go Vote, Montreal. It Matters.
Today, Montrealers have a chance to do something many people around the world can only dream of: cast a ballot in a free and democratic election. It may not feel dramatic. There…
Jewish Heirs Sue the Met Over Van Gogh Masterpiece Seized by Nazis
A Jewish family has launched a new lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art, claiming that one of Vincent van Gogh’s celebrated paintings, Olive Picking, was looted by the Nazis and wrongfully…