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Oct 11, 2026, 1:12 AM

Public Safety Canada Update on Anti-Zionism

Canada has taken an important step towards stemming the rise of antisemitism. Public Safety Canada’s recently released National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026 progress report, and the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, make clear that...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:36 AM

The Ten Percent – Did We Fail in Our Aliyah?

The Man Upstairs - public art, Frankfurt Airport Train Station

At first, I thought it was twenty per cent, but it is indeed ten per cent. We are among the ten percent who don’t stay. Ninety percent of people who make Aliyah from North America, through Nefesh B’Nefesh, make...

Oct 9, 2026, 6:32 AM

Treasure Trove: On Thanksgiving in Canada and Other Places

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

The Thanksgiving holiday which gives us this long weekend in Canada has a long tradition in our country. Long before European explorers arrived, First Nations across Turtle Island (for some Indigenous peoples, Turtle Island refers to the continent of...

Jonathan van der Veen

Oct 8, 2026, 11:25 PM

Winnipeg Walks with Israel

Today is the third anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, when Islamic terrorists crossed the border from Gaza and butchered nearly 1,200 people in Israel. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. More than 200 others were...

Jodi L. Goldfinger

Oct 8, 2026, 1:08 AM

October 7: The Fear That Crossed The Ocean

Image of a hand holding a Jewish Star necklace | Created by Jodi L. Goldfinger using AI tools on October 7, 2026

Are you safe? It is such a simple question. Three words I had asked people in other contexts, after storms, accidents, or emergencies. But after October 7, 2023, those words changed. I was thousands of kilometres away from Israel, sitting safely...

Steven C. Wernick

Oct 6, 2026, 7:08 PM

Three Years After October 7, We Remember

A medieval parable about not letting go, and what bereaved Israeli families are teaching us about it. Tomorrow marks three years since October 7. For many Jews, the anniversary has already come. On the Hebrew calendar in the Diaspora, the massacre...

Oct 6, 2026, 5:53 AM

Can Toronto’s Antizionist Mayor be Defeated?

Most Jews in Toronto are aware of the consequential Israeli election on October 27. But, by coincidence, Jews living in Toronto face a consequential municipal election the day before - on October 26, 2026. Toronto has experienced an exceptionally serious...

Sheldon Kirshner

Oct 5, 2026, 6:59 PM

Carney, Netanyahu and a Two-State Solution

Mark Carney has spoken to or met dozens of world leaders since succeeding Justin Trudeau as Canada's prime minister last year. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, is glaringly absent from that list. Later this month, Carney will reportedly...

Joseph C. Kaplan

Oct 2, 2026, 7:01 AM

Deracheha Darchei No’am – Her Ways are Pleasant Ways

Some of the most difficult questions in life as well as in Jewish law (halacha) — questions that are practically, psychologically, emotionally, and legally fraught — deal with end-of-life issues. Sharon and I have agonized over them, in moments...

Oct 1, 2026, 2:40 AM

Zionist Indigeneity – Canadian Native Reconciliation

Friends, today is Canada's National Day of Truth and Reconciliation with our Indigenous Peoples. And I would like to tie that in with support received from our Indigenous Embassy in Jerusalem to victims of the recent synagogue attack in...

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