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