Last week, Canadian lawmakers invited a Ukrainian Nazi into the House of Commons, then gave him two standing ovations. Though House Speaker Anthony Rota has rightly resigned after inviting former […]
To the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada I write to you today on behalf of Independent Jewish Voices, a national Jewish organization with chapters across Canada […]
Traditionally, the Book of Jonah is read in the synagogue on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Why? The rabbis give a variety of […]
The Jewish high holidays are a period to collectively repent for our wrongdoings over the last year, and imagine how we will enact our ethical values in the year to […]
A U.S. jury has sentenced to death the gunman who killed eleven worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. When Robert Bowers entered the synagogue, he yelled, “All […]