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It is not easy being a Conservative, especially a Conservative Jew.

Apr 12, 2019 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality

It is the left-wing liberal Jews, Progressives, the Sarah Silverman’s of the world, who developed IfNotNow and Bend the Arc and Jewish Voice for Peace; and stand with Ilhan Omar. And the Jews who follow them are the weak ones, who align with the...

2019: Memories of the McCarthy Years:The return of blacklisting

Apr 9, 2019 | Politics

Hedda Hopper Remember the blacklist of the McCarthy era? You couldn’t get a job in Hollywood if you had a whiff of communism around you. Let me take you back to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee’s...

Why are we having a “Day of Remembrance and Action Against Islamophobia”?

Apr 6, 2019 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality

The province of Ontario has declared January 29 as a “Day of Remembrance and Action Against Islamophobia.” This is the result of the horrific attack against Muslims praying in their mosque in Quebec.Thankfully, there has been only one such attack...

#FakeNews spreads like a virus when errors and omissions are not corrected

Apr 1, 2019 | Politics

Mr. Dimitri Lascaris , lawyer, journalist and activist is very concerned about Islamophobia and those he concludes are Islamophobic. I reached out to Mr. Lascaris regarding comments he made about Lt. Col (Ret) Jonathan Halevi. Lascaris did not respond to my...

How do you spell censorship…I S L A M O P H O B I A

Mar 31, 2019 | Politics

Not too long ago I sent a missive to the CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post; four major mainstream media outlets in Canada, asking for their working definition of Islamophobia. After all how does one call another an Islamophobe if...

High school teacher bullied on Social Media: School admin caves

Mar 29, 2019 | Ethics, Politics

I have not met Aviva Polonsky nor Sebastian Gorka nor the people at Chat. Aviva Polonsky, a teacher at TanenbaumCHAT and the President of the Federation of Teachers in Hebrew Schools in Toronto, accompanied 14 students to the AIPAC conference. On March...