By Joseph Marshall In Montreal, where smoked meat is a religion and bagels are a rite of passage, there is one thing you learn young: good food is never cheap. But kosher…
OPINION: Ontario’s Teachers’ Union Picks an Anti Zionist Group to Train on Antisemitism
By Joseph Marshall Over the past year and a half, Jewish families across Ontario have found themselves quietly adjusting to a new, uneasy normal. Police cruisers parked outside schools have faded into…
OPINION: Jew Hatred Is Not a Super Bowl Stunt
By Howie Silbiger There is a growing tendency to treat Jew hatred as a branding problem rather than a moral one. As if the right slogan, the right shock, the right viral…
NY Teen Arrested For Email Calling For The Murder Of Jews
By Joseph Marshall A 17 year old student at a public charter school in Queens was arrested this week after allegedly sending an email calling for the killing of Jews to hundreds…
OPINION: Concordia University Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Mirror.
By Mayer Wochyniak The National Post ran a piece this week calling Concordia University a “wretched hive of antisemitic scum and villainy.” It’s a headline built to travel, and it did. People…
OPINION: How Many Ethics Violations Does It Take to Get Re-Elected
By Howie Silbiger I ran in a school board election in 2024. I lost. I didn’t run in the same ward as Julien Feldman, so we were not direct competitors, and for…
EMSB Commissioner Julien Feldman Suspended, Ordered to Apologize
By Joseph Marshall An Ethics Commissioner has suspended English Montreal School Board Commissioner Julien Feldman for 15 days, ordered him to issue a public apology, and imposed a financial penalty after finding…
Holocaust Memory Means Nothing While Jews Are Targeted
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…
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…