Dear D, Iâm sorry that after hours and hours of serious preparation â including sacrificing precious vacation time — your class mission to Poland was cancelled. I am well aware how different this Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — would have felt for you had you returned recently from visiting the Nazi death camps. […]
Pack Your Coronasederette With Zionist Thinkers
Wednesday night, Jews will experience Coronasederettes —  perhaps the smallest seders of our lifetimes. We can make them not just bâseder  â ok â but soued-up-super-seders, brimming with meaning even if lacking guests. One path to great meaning is by âwelcomingâ some Zionist thinkers â or at least some of their best texts. Zionists are ideal […]
Zionist Texts for the Coronasederette
Welcome Zionist Thinkers to your Coronasederette! These texts from The Zionist Ideas bridge between our ancient fight for freedom and the challenges of today â including the Corona quarantine- for more ideas of how to frame it.
Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)?
96 Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)? View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post  01/04/2020  Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)?  Benny Gantz â the Sorcererâs Apprentice I get it. Benny Gantzâs surrender to Benjamin Netanyahu is a terrible disappointment to those of […]
To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier
96 To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post  25/03/2020  To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier  Dear A.  Youâve reached the long-anticipated day of your enlistment after a most unexpected month. Your âlast hurrahâ abroad ended with your grandmotherâs deathwatch and […]
Montreal Must Adopt the IHRA Definition
On April 5, 2004, Jew-haters firebombed the United Talmud Torahâs St. Laurent campus, burning down the schoolâs library. These criminals admitted that they attacked this Jewish school in Montreal to lash out against Israel. After pleading guilty, Sleiman El-Merhebi was sentenced to 40 months in prison; charges were dropped against Simon Zogheib. While most Canadians […]
Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook
96 Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post  05/03/2020  Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook  One day in Champlain Colony, that ramshackle collection of bungalows by the polluted Lake Champlain we considered our summer paradise, my mother […]
Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve
96 Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post  18/03/2020 Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve Going from mourning your mother for a week in Maryland to a two-week Corona-quarantine in Jerusalem, makes âshivaâ â which means 7 â feel like âesrim-veâechad,â 21-days. The […]
Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais
96 Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post  26/02/2020 Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais Itâs sobering to live in a world overdosing on Ahashveroses and Hamans but missing Esthers and Mordechais. Today, Israel and the United States are […]
Troy: Montreal must adopt the IHRA definition
The latest from CJN columnist Gil Troy. The post Troy: Montreal must adopt the IHRA definition appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the original article
