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Mar 8, 2024, 12:49 AM

Canada and the War against Hamas

On Monday, I had the chance to speak with Melanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, during a roundtable at my shul. A few weeks earlier, I had a similar meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau. This post is my...

May 21, 2017, 10:26 PM

Jews May Share and Borrow, But We Don’t Give Out Appropriation Prizes

In his 1993 show, famed fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier sent models down the runway in black frocks and fur hats. In a two-word phrase that I am certain had never been used before and will likely never be...

Apr 8, 2017, 4:29 AM

Pesach and The Stories We Tell About Ourselves

“Tell me about yourself.” It’s the kind of theoretically nonchalant conversation starter you get from the stranger seated next to you at your neighbours’ kid’s Bat Mitzvah. “Tell me about yourself.” It should be a simple request. But where do you begin?...

Jan 7, 2014, 1:21 AM

White meat, dark meat, green meat

Locusts are nothing more than especially gregarious grasshoppers. When hordes of the generally solitary insect come together because of, for example, a nearby drought, a remarkable thing starts to happen: the grasshoppers’ appearances darken, their appetites grow and they...

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Adam Cutler is the Senior Rabbi of Adath Israel Congregation in Toronto, ON.