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Sep 17, 2026, 9:58 PM

Five Thousand Miles

My blog today - about flying last March, during the active part of the Iran war, from Israel to Canada - is in the form of a poem, which I set to music, and is a rock video on...

Sep 17, 2026, 8:45 PM

Cycles of Time, Holiday Challah and the Milky Way

Spiritual growth can be perplexing and that's why it's helpful to ground ourselves in our spiritual traditions and cycles of time. I am following up on some insights of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel that Jews hallow time. Taking a look...

Sep 16, 2026, 9:54 PM

The Warning Signs We Recognize Only in Hindsight

There is a question at the heart of my book, When Is It Too Late? Holocaust Lessons on Risk, Decision Making, and the Failure to Act, that is deliberately uncomfortable: When does concern become danger—and when does waiting become a...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 15, 2026, 6:45 PM

Trump Unleashes Hostility Against Canada

Until about two years ago, I regarded the United States as a friendly neighbor, a nation whose democratic values were in alignment with that of Canada. In this respect, Canada almost seemed like a carbon copy of America. When I...

Sep 15, 2026, 6:20 PM

Being Pro-Israel Means Knowing the Settlements Are Not Israel

Distinguishing sovereign Israel from the West Bank is legally correct and strategically necessary. Turning that distinction into a trade ban on settlement goods backfires: it punishes civilians, strengthens annexationists and makes separation politically harder. Britain, France and Canada have announced...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:10 PM

From a Day of Horror to a Day of Service

At a moment when relations between Canada and the United States have been strained by a bruising trade dispute, the US Consulate General in Toronto hosted a moving commemoration marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. I...

Sep 11, 2026, 4:31 AM

Oh Canada: Remember 9/11 As A Terrorist Act

We are coming up to the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It is hard to believe so much time has passed, or that some in our Canadian CBC news establishment and political elites would prefer that we not...

Sep 10, 2026, 6:40 AM

Treasure Trove: Infamy, Interconnectedness and Ice Cream

From the collection of David Matlow. Photograph by David Matlow.

When we talk about the horrors of October 7 we don’t need to say the year. For those of us of a certain age, the same is true for September 11. When we don’t attach the year, it is...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 7, 2026, 7:06 PM

The Nazi War Criminal Issue Resurfaces In Canada

B'nai Brith Canada for years has sought full access to a report written by historian Alti Rodal for the Commission of Inquiry On War Criminals In Canada. The commission, headed by Jules Deschenes, was charged with investigating allegations that...

Menachem Elyah Paull

Sep 6, 2026, 12:28 AM

Israel needs to talk to the Diaspora Jews

In 1972, when I was sixteen, I knew an Israeli named Itzik. More than half a century later, I still remember him. He was a shaliach, working with Jewish youth organizations and visiting schools. He had recently served in the IDF....

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