Robert Sarner, at The Blogs

Robert Sarner

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Dec 25, 2024, 11:31 AM

Limmud FSU Canada Turns 10: Oral Tradition Shines in Jewish Passion for Learning

While Jews have long had a special appreciation for books and taken pride in their formidable achievements with the written word, they're also no lightweights when it comes to the spoken word. That was vividly evident during a recent...

Nov 19, 2023, 8:27 AM

Questions that Won’t Go Away

Amid the somber, new/old reality plaguing Israel and Diaspora Jews following Hamas’s soul-crushing atrocities of Oct. 7, many troubling questions persist. Most pertain to Jews everywhere, several relate specifically to Canada where I live. Some answers are more straightforward...

Mar 6, 2023, 3:54 PM

Inside the World’s Most Philosemitic Country Where Jews Live Free of Fear

BAKU - It shouldn’t be exceptional, but it is – a country whose Jewish community never worries about antisemitism. It shouldn’t be hard to believe, but it is – Jews in Azerbaijan live without the nervousness and security measures...

Jul 8, 2022, 6:57 AM

Facts be damned in seeking to delegitimize Israel

Harsh critics of Israel often play fast and loose with the facts in how they present the Jewish state.

Photo credit: Taylor Brandon, Unsplash

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New project from Canadian pro-Palestinian organization, CJPME, the latest in a time-honored tactic of deception in attacking the Jewish state Some words of wisdom are almost prophetic. Well over a century ago, celebrated American writer and humorist Mark Twain said caustically:...

Apr 15, 2018, 8:06 AM

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69 reasons to applaud Israel on its 69th birthday

Ahead of the upcoming 69th Independence Day celebrations, Israeli Air Force aircraft fly during training over Jerusalem, April 26, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Taking stock of what the Jewish state accomplished in just one year to appreciate the magnitude of its achievements

About Me

Robert Sarner is Senior Writer and Editor at Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Toronto and contributes regularly to the Times of Israel. A former journalist in Israel, France and Canada, his work has appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Report, i24 News, Le Monde, Globe and Mail, National Post, Canadian Jewish News, Christian Science Monitor, Detroit Jewish News and The Forward. While living in France, he was the founding Editor of Paris Passion magazine and later was a Senior Editor/Reporter at Israel Television's IBA News.

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