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,…
Ottawa Petition Targeting Canadian IDF Veterans Sparks Concern
By Joseph Marshall A federal parliamentary petition calling for investigations into Canadians who served in the Israel Defense Forces has ignited a political and communal firestorm, with Jewish organizations warning that the…
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…
How About Tulsa Oklahoma as The Promised Land?
By Joseph Marshall Forget the Promised Land, how about Tulsa? That is not a punchline. It is the question now being posed to Jewish Canadians who no longer feel safe where they…
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…
Rabbi Shlanger Raised His Hands in Peace. The Terrorist Riddled Him With Bullets
By Jack Forrester What unfolded at Bondi Beach on the first night of Chanukah is now understood to have been far more calculated, more lethal, and closer to catastrophic than initially known,…
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 Report: No Threat – But Jews Be Vigilant
By Joseph Marshall Jewish institutions in Montreal and across Quebec are operating under heightened vigilance after a federal threat assessment warned that attacks against Jewish targets in Canada remain a realistic possibility,…
Montreal City Council Condemns Australian Chanukah Attack
By Joseph Marshall Montreal’s city council moved swiftly and unanimously on Monday to condemn what it called an antisemitic terrorist attack in Australia, adopting a joint declaration denouncing the mass shooting at…
Terror on the Sand: Jews Gunned Down at Hanukkah Event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach
By Jack Forrester SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — December 14, 2025 – Gunfire ripped through a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday night, cutting down families gathered for a Jewish holiday and transforming…