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By GERRY POSNER Recently I was at a Shabbat service at Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Toronto and the day unfolded...
A sudden impact followed by the screech of tires fading into silence leaves a person in a state of shock...
By Olivia Haynie December 29, 2025 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
Ang Pusoy, na kilala din bilang Chinese Poker, ay patuloy na sumisikat sa buong mundo, kumukuha ng interes ng mga...
Can men and women just be friends? Can you be in the revenge business too long? Why don’t you just...
By MARTIN ZEILIG Jazz history is usually told through its most iconic names — Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Davis — yet...
By DAVID TOPPER The Jewish contribution to 20th century popular music is well known. From Jerome Kern through to Stephen...
By HENRY SREBRNIK “Globalize the Intifada” has been the chant echoing through streets since October 7th, 2023. It was never...
Canadians planning to travel in 2026 should keep an eye on shifting trends and learn what’s coming their way in...
The expansion of legalized sports betting worldwide has resulted in sportsbooks grappling with a problem that they can no longer...
Canada’s fan engagement with sports has been radically changed by the recent single-event legalized sports betting. In the past, this...
Online dating in Canada can be genuinely effective, but only if you approach it like a simple process instead of...
With great sadness, we announce the passing of Dolly Chisick on Friday, December 19th, at the age of 83. Dolly passed peacefully with her family by...
There was a cultural inversion in 2025. As Trump took over the country, “woke” concerns were eliminated from major companies’ priorities — topics like transgender rights...
A Breads Bakery location in New York City. Photo: ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect Staff members at the extremely popular New York City establishment Breads...
Protesters march in downtown Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29, 2025. Photo: Screenshot As anti-government protests continue to rage and spread across Iran, the country’s leadership is reportedly...
Lately I’ve been thinking about Emma Goldman, the Russian-born Jewish anarchist who attracted droves of followers in her 30-plus years in the United States. I’ve not...
Supporters of the UAE-backed separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) hold a poster of Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the STC’s leader, who, according to the Saudi-backed coalition, fled to...
North Carolina State University. Photo: Wiki Commons. Community members have reached out to express concerns regarding the North Carolina State University course, “History of the Palestinian-Israeli...
Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, briefs the UN Security Council during a council...
Pakistan Air Force’s JF-17 Thunder jets fly past during the sea phase of Pakistan Navy’s Multinational Exercise AMAN-23, in the North Arabian Sea near Karachi, Pakistan,...
Protesters gather as vehicles burn, amid evolving anti-government unrest, in Tehran, Iran, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released on Jan. 9,...
Gal Gadot at the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. Photo: Dan MacMedan-USA...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 3, 2026. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News...
Law enforcement vehicles at an evacuation site, after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made an agreement with the Syrian government to depart, and evacuate to northeastern...
Nobuki Sugihara, a son of wartime Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, credited with helping Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution by issuing transit visas, speaks during a ceremony...
(JTA) — Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer, Maryland’s longest-serving member of Congress and a lawmaker with longstanding close ties to the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, has announced his...
(JTA) — He’s running for Congress on Manhattan’s West Side, but lately Cameron Kasky has been focused on the West Bank. Kasky, a 25-year-old Jewish progressive,...
