Relief that the fighting may be at an end is one thing. Joy — after all this suffering — is another Contributing ColumnistEmily TamkinOctober 11, 2025...
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN I have to admit that, as much as I consider myself reasonably informed about the history of the Holocaust, I had never...
This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to a Hungarian writer whose work offers bleak visions of existence, and whose father hid his Jewish ancestry...
By Mira Fox September 27, 2025 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your...
“They can starve us, beat us, cage us – but they could never kill our spirit.“ – Joseph BauA gripping new movie, titled Bau, Artist at...
By BERNIE BELLAN It was billed as “Java with Jeff” – a chance for anyone to talk to Jewish Federation CEO Jeff Lieberman in an open...
By MYRON LOVE Many readers will no doubt remember the uproar caused 15 months ago (on May 16, 2024) when the valedictorian for the University of...
By HENRY SREBRNIK I’m not being faux humble when I say I consider Niall Ferguson more erudite and better read than I am. He has taught...
By GREGORY MASON If we define Hamas as a cancer, can we devise a strategy to, if not defeat Hamas, at least manage it? Is Hamas...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Sept. 11, 2025) There was a mood of heightened expectancy the afternoon of Wednesday, September 10, at the Gwen Secter Centre. The premier...
By BERNIE BELLAN (Sept. 11, 2025) It’s a complicated – and very confusing story – and it goes back to an earth-shaking decision issued by the...
“Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone” -from Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970) By BERNIE BELLAN...