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By MYRON LOVE On December 24, Sol Fink, who both as shoichet and chazan served our community for many years, celebrated his 100thbirthday. In keeping with...
10 minutes (Posted Dec. 24, 2024) 02:11 AM: Sound asleep. 2.11.01 AM: Wide awake. Awoken by a blaring missile alarm. Incoming. Took me no time to...
By MYRON LOVE They say there are two things you can count on in life – death and taxes. I don’t know about taxes – but...
By GERRY POSNER Robert Frost was not likely thinking of Susan Roadburg when he penned his famous line in the poem “The Road Less Travelled.” Yet,...
By HENRY SREBRNIK How did American Jews vote in the November 5, 2024 presidential election? There’s no simple answer. American Jews are a hard-to-define religious and...
By BERNIE BELLAN In 1977, Menachem Begin became Prime Minister of Israel when his Likud Party was able to form a very narrow coalition with two...
By BERNIE BELLAN Amidst the head-spinning news coming out of Syria this past week, it’s easy to forget that there is still a war going on...
By ORLY DREMAN A year ago at Chanuka/Christmas I wrote an article titled “From Darkness to Light” (from-darkness-to-light-december). I cannot believe a year has passed, yet...
By MYRON LOVE I have known John Plantz for 25 years or so. I first met him in the late 1990s when he was volunteering as...
By MYRON LOVE This year, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – is marking the occasion of its 100th anniversary – although, as Technion Professor...
The Road Ahead: Israelis Fighting for Peace and Democracy in a Trump-Netanyahu Era with Ben Murane, Executive Director, and Michael Mitchell, Board Memberof the New Israel...
Back in August we printed a story titled “A detailed look at the awful predicament in which JNF Canada now finds itself since the CRA revoked...
Second Cup Café said that the anti-Israel protester had violated the chain’s “values of inclusion and community.” (Nov. 24, 2024 / JNS) The Canadian chain Second...
By GERRY POSNER Add yet another name to the list of Winnipeg Jews who became psychiatrists and who have achieved fame elsewhere. I speak of none...
By BERNIE BELLAN I’m not sure how many readers follow Thomas Friedman’s writing in the New York Times; after all, he’s been highly critical of Netanyahu...
Book Review by Julie Kirsh (former Sun Media News Research Director)Exclusive to The Jewish Post“We used to Dream of Freedom, A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust,...
By BILL MARANTZ When I woke up, on Monday, November 11, I forgot it was Remembrance Day. Or, as the “Chosen People” call it, Groundhog Day....
By HENRY SREBRNIK On November 12, the former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss, did a brave thing. Speaking to the annual conference of the General...
By SIMONE COHEN SCOTT Last summer at the JNF Breakfast for Israel at Camp Massad, I met the camp’s executive director, Danial Sprintz. We had a...
By BERNIE BELLAN David Matas has achieved world-wide recognition for his life-long work advocating on behalf of repressed minorities throughout the world. Yet, as the same...