“The single most effective educational intervention in the world of Jewish identity in the 21st century is also the single most effective bridge-builder between Israel and the Diaspora: Birthright Israel.” The post Troy: Get a say in Israel’s elections with targeted donations appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the […]
75 Years After WWII, Jews Deserve Freedom from Fear Too
Seventy-five years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the ghoulish mass-murder-factory that killed as many as 15,000 Jews daily. “We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate,” the late Eva Mozes Kor would recall for the BBC/KCET documentary “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.” “Being so alone, a hug meant more […]
All-American Decency Is the Antidote to Anti-Semitism
It took two killers shooting up a Jersey City kosher-mart and one machete-wielding maniac invading a rabbi’s house in Monseyto reteach the old lesson that Jew-hatred is the most plastic hatred—adaptable, durable, artificial, and frequently toxic. Until then, even most American Jews kept folding the fight against anti-Semitism into the partisan war over Donald Trump. Yet reducing Jew-hatred […]
Tzohar Rabbis: Happy, Halachic, and in love with the Jewish People
Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s branding of Russian immigrants as “religion-hating gentiles” has fueled cries for a rabbinate filled with peoplehood-loving Jews. So many of us are desperate for change. Change comes from the bottom-up or from top-down. People love sitting around, doing nothing but grumbling about the leadership failures empowering the chief rabbinate to […]
Center Field: Leaders’ credibility chasms
With each week, the global hypocrisy epidemic grows. People keep cultivating their blind spots, consciously narrowing their vision, not broadening it.We see it in too many leaders ready to say anything to stay in power. We see it in their followers reduced to enablers. And we see it in their opponents, who forget how slavishly […]
Troy: McGill is beginning to look like Concordia of 2002
Gil Troy examines the recent anti-Semitic occurrences at McGill University. The post Troy: McGill is beginning to look like Concordia of 2002 appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the original article
Troy: Some tragically unhip advice to Trudeau: read your Bible
Gil Troy’s advice to Justin Trudeau: read the Bible and say some prayers. The post Troy: Some tragically unhip advice to Trudeau: read your Bible appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the original article
Troy: The anti-Semite card is getting old
“Jews need to fight anti-Semitism passionately – without making it the defining passion of Jewish life.” The post Troy: The anti-Semite card is getting old appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the original article
Troy: The bubble of delusion
Salman Abu Sitta, a London-based Palestinian, recently attacked me, along with my cousin Adele Raemer, for living in a “denial bubble” about the nakba, the supposed destruction of his home by the “Zionist invasion of Palestine.” His one-sided attack, published on the anti-Zionist news website Mondoweiss, shows that the real conflict is not about the […]
Troy: Democracy flourishes
“Despite what you keep hearing, democracy in Israel is not doomed,” Gil Troy writes. The post Troy: Democracy flourishes appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the original article