The Israeli political system is nothing that we are familiar with. It relies on a coalition of several parties rather than one party winning everything in a general election. Which means we will not know for a few days or maybe a couple of weeks who will form the next government in Israel. It is to be noted that this is the first election since October 7. One reason is that Bibi knows a new government will launch the independent inquiry Israelis have been demanding for the pa

We were again banned from Facebook because the government doesn't like something we wrote. Ridiculous. *** Over the past few days, we’ve spoken to many people about Quebec’s fast-approaching October 5 election and we keep hearing the same mantra: “I don’t know who to vote for.” The CAQ has stood by Quebec’s Jewish community, and people remember that. They also remember nearly eight years of hammering the English community and squandering our money like it was coming out of a

We are heading into a provincial election on Monday October 5. As people living in a democracy, we have an obligation to excercise our right to vote. The looming question facing us all, especially the Jewish population of quebec is who is best for the Jews. It is not the separatist party. Their obsession with pulling Quebec out of Canada is no longer a dream. It is a ridiculous fantasy, one they keep trying to sell to Quebecers as though the rest of the world has been standin

As we stand on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, it behooves us to take stock not only of ourselves, but of what is happening around us. And in Canada, that means confronting the ugly, as yet unchecked reality of antisemitism. We didn't have to look very far. Today’s National Post was filled with articles on the subject, a disturbing snapshot of just how deeply antisemitism has embedded itself in Canadian life. That, in itself, should tell us something. Canada is

Twenty-five years ago, September 11 fell on a Tuesday, a beautiful, crystal-clear fall morning that gave no hint of the horror about to unfold. We were working in our synagogue, then located in Decarie Square. Looking back, it was a time when we took a certain innocence about the world for granted. Computers were only beginning to become part of our everyday lives. News did not follow us everywhere. There were no smartphones in our hands, no constant stream of alerts and beep

One of our esteemed readers who recently made aliyah to Israel sent us a heads-up that our prime minister made it to the Jerusalem post. His recent press conference making a mockery of antisemitism in Canada clearly did not go unnoticed Israeli officials nor frankly to the rest of the world. The author of the article, former Montrealer Gil Troy, first described the open antisemitism rampant throughout McGill, on the streets of Montreal, at the convocation of McGill, and all