Andrew Rouchotas with Diane Bederman: Andrew’s Soapbox

Andrew’s Soapbox. I sat down with the amazing Diane Bederman (code named “Raging Jewish Princess”). Diane is a world renowned Canadian author, having written books such as “Back to the Ethic” and “The Serpent and the Red Thread”. (And she blushed) In this...

If Black Lives really mattered…

  In the latter half of the 20th century there was a newsman from Buffalo, New York, Irv Weinstein, who ended his newscast with “It’s 11 o’clock, Do you know where your children are?” Perhaps we need to amend that to “Do you know where your children are most of...

“Jews are our dogs” say Muslims in Canada

  How is this for a rallying cry: “Jews are our dogs”? Canada, are you OK with this? I have to assume so because no one said a word when predominantly Muslim students shared that statement, July 4 in Mississauga, Ontario at Celebration Square at the “Mississauga...

Antisemitism Kills

    This is the talk I gave at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue in Toronto January 23, 2020 This week we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. What did we learn? We learned that antisemitism kills. During Roman times Jews made...