Apr 1, 2016 | Politics
I took umbrage with the underlying thesis Erna Paris expressed in her Globe and Mail article about our attitude toward Syrian refugees “Let’s not cave to fear in 2016.” After the shame of None is too Many that embraced Canada during...
Apr 1, 2016 | Ethics
The recently released “Report on Antisemitic Activity in 2015 at US Colleges and Universities With the Largest Jewish Undergraduate Populations” is the “first empirical study of its kind,” showing that “the primary agents of anti-Semitic...
Sep 10, 2015 | Politics
Fourteen years ago, Sept 11, 2001, the last of the Jews in Syria was flown to freedom. More than 3000 Jewish people trapped under the brutal dictator, Assad, were removed from Syria by the actions of one Canadian woman from Toronto, Judy Feld Carr. The entire...
Oct 22, 2014 | Politics
During the summer of 2014, Professor Natasha Bakht of the University of Ottawa wrote in Convivium, a magazine to which I contribute, that Muslim women have the religious right to cover up. She describes the Canadian reaction to the niqab as “illogical” and...
Oct 16, 2014 | Ethics
This summer I lodged a complaint with the CBC regarding their biased coverage of the Middle East. Here is the review of my complaint by Esther Enkin, the ombudsman. Below is my response to her review which I found unacceptable. Please read the documents and if you...
