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Sep 9, 2017, 1:36 AM
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An ice cream of reassurance
In the years since 9/11, what had felt like an act of defiance has become one of comfort
Oct 27, 2016, 9:10 PM
The Balfour Declaration- A Cause of Action (?)
The Balfour Declaration is back in the news. The news first broke on November 2, 1917 when British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Walter Rothschild, a leader in the British Jewish community, to set out the British government’s support...
Nov 4, 2015, 11:27 PM
The Place with the Jewish Government
Do you ever find that when someone forgets a word, they instead describe the essence of the word they can’t recall? I was a witness to that experience, and the word was "Israel". A few days after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin on November...
Oct 16, 2015, 5:44 PM
Balfour or Ball Four?
If only being a supporter of Israel is as easy as it was to be a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays this week. When I was sixteen years old, my friend Barry Simon (now a prominent Toronto psychiatrist) and...
Aug 10, 2014, 5:48 PM
How do you build the Jewish State? Yidl by Yidl.
I thought a lot about my friend Danny while I was in Israel during Operation Protective Edge. Danny lives in a small town in New Jersey but his heart is in Israel. He remembers what it was like when there...
Aug 10, 2014, 2:42 PM
It’s easier to be in Israel than to watch it from afar
“The book on how to fight terror is being written here,” said Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Wednesday evening at the Canada-Israel Solidarity Rally held at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem. We are indeed the people of the book,...
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David Matlow is the Chair of the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto, and a partner at Goodmans LLP. He owns the world's largest collecton of Theodor Herzl memorabilia and produced My Herzl, a documentary film about the continued relevance of Herzl today.