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The cloud that shadows Israel 's 60th Despite its miraculous progress over six decades, the country is still threatened by its neighbours - By Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, May 07, 2008

Center Field: Why I am a Zionist - By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, JPost.com, May 7, 2008

The Birthright 2.0 challenge - By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, JPost.com, Apr 30, 2008

Center Field: Voluntary and involuntary Judaism - By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, JPost.com, Apr 23, 2008

Remember the terror victims at the Seder - By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, JPost.com, Apr 16, 2008

Committee for tyranny in academe - By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, JPost.com, Apr 09, 2008

Gil Troy on the Palestinian national movement's addiction to violence - National Post, March 7, 2008

Blackening the Palestinian soul - Gil Troy, National Post, March 8, 2008

Quebec's accomodation debate is unreasonable - By Gil Troy, The Canadian Jewish News, March 29, 2007

REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF TERROR AT THE SEDER - Gil Troy

Quitters and Winners: Standing Out From the Crowd By Gil Troy - B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2007

ISRAEL'S CRITICS PROTEST TOO MUCH - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, March 23, 2007

Emboldening the anti-Semites - By Gil Troy, The Canadian Jewish News, March 1, 2007

Feeling The Brunt Of Israel-Haters - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, February 2, 2007

Memo to a useful idiot - By Gil Troy, The Canadian Jewish News, February 1, 2007

VIEWPOINT: ZIONISM REVISITED - By Gil Troy, JERUSALEM REPORT, FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Jimmy Carter under fire Heated debate over former US president's controversial book continues - Ynetnews, January 14, 2007

Norman Finkelstein vs. Gil Troy On Jimmy Carter's Controversial Book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" - Democracy Now, January 8, 2007

Debunking the real Big Lie - By Gil Troy - The Canadian Jewish News, January 4, 2007

THIS HANUKKAH, LET'S TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW TO GIVE - By Gil Troy - Updated December 2006 version of article first published in The Canadian Jewish News - 28 November 2002, B2-B3

Focus On Hillary Now, Not On The Past - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, December 1, 2006

Arbour should rethink stance on Israel - By Gil Troy - The Suburban, November 29, 2006

It's time to shore up Jewish identity - By Gil Troy The Canadian Jewish News, November 30, 2006

WE MUST ACT TO FREE THE SOLDIERS - By Gil Troy The Canadian Jewish News, November 2, 2006

A wake-up call for Quebec Jews - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, October 5, 2006

Israel, United: Hezbollah's terror tactics have only strengthened Israeli resolve - Gil Troy, National Review online, August 21, 2006

Our challenge is clear - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, August 10, 2006

Emergency delegation tours Israel's war-torn north - Canadian Jewish News, August 3, 2006

Israeli attacks followed months, even years, of provocation - Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, HNN, July 15, 2006

War Unites Israelis - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, July 21, 2006

Good citizens must face the Islamist threat - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, July 6, 2006

What we can learn from l'affair Yehoshua - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, June 8, 2006

Optimism breaks out in Mideast Olmert, Abbas and Yo-Yo Ma strike the right chords in the quest for peaceful co-existence - Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, June 5, 2006

Routine Deceits American Theocracy's disingenuous characterizations of Israel - Gil Troy, NRO National Review Online, June 5, 2006

REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF TERROR AT THE SEDER: LEAVE ONE EMPTY CHAIR AT THE TABLE - Gil Troy (Revised for 2006)

We must show steely resolve against Islamism - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, April 12, 2006

Why The Silence On AIPAC Trial? - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, April 7, 2006

Tone Down The Bushophobia - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, April 7, 2006

May his memory be a democratic blessing - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, March 12, 2006

Israel in a Post-Mythological Age Gil Troy, Symposium, The Dorothy and Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations

Left and right must reign in the extremists - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, February 16, 2006

Remembering Andy Bronfman - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, February 3, 2006

Defining the Jewish future on our own terms - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, January 19, 2006

Needed: Hip Rebels With A Clue - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, January 5, 2006

Knights in Kevlar: Gil Troy, B'nai Brith Magazine, Winter 2005

Let's not be Afraid of Merry Christmas, Gil Troy, Edah, December 30, 2005 (Note: Scroll down to find the editorial)

This is no time for ecumenical pleasantries - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, December 15, 2005

Middle East terrorists in suits and ties Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, 11-27-05 (HNN)

Needed: Proactive Zionism - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, November 15, 2005

Israel headlines I'd like to see - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, November 17, 2005

Teens need more than 'juvenile Judaism' - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, October 20, 2005

Toward A Year Of Softer Colors - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, October 7, 2005

A year of true national greatness - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, September 22, 2005

DNC's Marshall Wittmann: "My anticipation is that between the demands of Katrina relief and the [Iraq] war, the budget is just going to expand, expand expand." - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, September 16, 2005

It's time for others to defy conventional wisdom - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, August 25, 2005

From Gaza, Taking Pride In What Was - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, August 19, 2005

Hadassah Deserves Nobel Peace Prize - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, July 22, 2005

Let's disengage from the polarizing rhetoric - Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, July 21, 2005

MISSING SOLUTION - GIL TROY, The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved By Alan Dershowitz, Wiley, 256 pages, $22.95, NEW YORK POST, August 28, 2005

Triumph and tragedy The best and worst of Western civilization is revealed in 400 years of Jewish history - GIL TROY, A History of the Jews in the Modern World By Howard M. Sachar Knopf; 830 pages; $40 THE RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Aug 28, 2005

Coping with the Campus Intifada - Gil Troy, Viewpoint, The Jerusalem Report. Aug 8, 2005. pg. 62

Reagan and the Rebbe: The First Lubavitcher President? Gil Troy, B'NAI BRITH MAGAZINE, SUMMER 2005

An ode to Jewish educators - GIL TROY, The Canadian Jewish News, Canada, June 22, 2005

Becoming A Modern Jew - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, June 8, 2005

A peaceful way to snuff out terror - By GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, May 25, 2005

The Bitburg Showdown, 20 Years Later - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, May 20, 2005

Let's join our Israeli cousins in their mourning - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, April 28, 2005

Year In Israel Is Priceless - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, April 14, 2005

The convergence between Jewish and secular ideas - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, March 31, 2005

Speak Out For Restraint - Gil Troy - New York Jewish Week, NY, March 18, 2005

Withdrawing from land legitimately won - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, March 3, 2005

A Book of Hope and Dreams - GIL TROY - From www.jbooks.com, February 2005. THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror By Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer 303 Pages. Public Affairs. $26.95.

Enchanted by Ella - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, February 3, 2005.

Academic Freedom Works Both Ways - Gil Troy - THE JEWISH WEEK, Monday, January 31, 2005 / 21 Shevat 5765.

School funding crisis revealed ugly pools of anti-Semitism Innuendo and invective demonized Montreal's Jewish community - Gil Troy - The Montreal Gazette, January 24, 2005.

What pro-Palestinian forces can do to help - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, January 6, 2005.

Arafat and Derrida's assault on truth - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, December 2, 2004.

'Blue' Jews Out Of Sync With America - Gil Troy, The Jewish Week, November 12, 2004

Just say no to the violence veto - GIL TROY - The Canadian Jewish News, November 4, 2004.

Pick Leader Good For America - Gil Troy - The Jewish Week, October 22, 2004.

When did free speech become optional? - Gil Troy, The National Post, October 7, 2004.

Montreal School Bans Barak - Bram Eisenthal, Special to the Jewish Times, Baltimore Jewish Times, October 9, 2004.

"A Summer's Sweet Nationalism" - Gil Troy, VIEWPOINT: JERUSALEM REPORT, 4 October 2004, p. 46

Swimming Upstream In The Value-Free Zone Why Jewish day schools get a failing grade on teaching morality - Gil Troy, B'nai B'rith Magazine, Fall 2004 Issue

On Israel, we academics can do more - Gil Troy, The Canadian Jewish News, October 7, 2004

A Jerusalem Summer - Gil Troy CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, September 9, 2004

Fence abstention betrays Canadian values - GIL TROY, The Canadian Jewish News, August 12, 2004.

Yes, We Have A Right To Exist - And Here's Why Tools for countering the new breed of Israel-bashers - Gil Troy, B'nai B'rith Magazine, Summer 2004 Issue

The new anti-Semitism Series of books look at the reinvention of an ancient scourge - Gil Troy, Raleigh, N.C. News Observer, July 11, 2004

The urgent situation in Sudan - GIL TROY, The Canadian Jewish News, July 8, 2004.

Essays struggle with intellectuals' anti-Semitism - GIL TROY. The Montreal Gazette, June 5, 2004, H6

Balancing the joys, sorrows of being Jewish - GIL TROY, The Canadian Jewish News, May 13, 2004

A predictable surprise - GIL TROY. The Montreal Gazette, May 1, 2004, H5

The Robinson debate turns uglier... - Gil Troy - May 31, 2004

Response to Robinson Speech in the Gazette -by Gil Troy-May 20, 2004

Update: McGill Responds to the Robinson Issue Gil Troy - May 11, 2004

Gillian Cosgrove, "National Diary," National Post, 7 May 2004, A9

Stop Trying to Sanitize Durban! Update - Gil Troy- Online exclusive

Critics wrong to demonize me, McGill professor says Gil Troy- The Montreal Gazette, Letters- May 5, 2004

Excellent Firsthand Account Concerning Mary Robinson and Durban- Gil Troy - Thursday, May 6, 2004

Degree of dishonour at McGill Giving an honourary doctorate to Mary Robinson is a mistake- Gil Troy- The Montreal Gazette, Sunday, May 02, 2004

SUICIDE BOMBED INTO REALITY - Gil Troy - The New York Post - March 26, 2004

PAY UP OR SHUT UP: ISRAELI TERROR VICTIMS DESERVE COMPENSATION, NOT EMPTY WORDS - Gil Troy - B'NAI BRITH MAGAZINE, Spring 2004, p. 12

Birthright links Jewish past to the future - Gil Troy - Canadian Jewish News, April 15, 2004

Building a living bridge - GIL TROY-Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition - February 19, 2004

MONTREAL VOLUNTEERS: WE SHALL RETURN! - Gil Troy-Partnership 2000 - Beer Sheva-Bnei Shimon - Montreal- Sweden - February 2003

Embrace honest debate : [Daily Edition] - GIL TROY- Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem: Feb 17, 2004. Section: Opinion, pg.13

THE 1,210 DAY NIGHTMARE IS OVER Israel has learned that the secret to liberal-democratic success is the respect for the individual-By Gil Troy- Montreal Gazette, February 2, 2004, A15

LO NAFSEEK LIRKOD: WE WON'T STOP DANCING-By GIL TROY- CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, January 22, 2004

Jimmy in Geneva: pointing fingers in the wrong direction-By GIL TROY-The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition - December 18, 2003

It's No Zionist Idea -By GIL TROY-FROM www.jbooks.com -THE FATE OF ZIONISM A Secular Future for Israel and Palestine-By Arthur Hertzberg-208 pages. HarperSanFransisco. $19.95.

Liberal Nationalism -By GIL TROY-The FORWARD - November 28, 2003

Active versus passive leadership-By GIL TROY -The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition - November 20, 2003

Reclaiming Zionism's Good Name and Proud History: A Challenge for the Jewish Intelligencia-By Gil Troy-Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Online Digest - 11.2.03

Pay it forward-By GIL TROY-The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition - October 23, 2003

BATTLING ISRAEL'S DEMONIZATION-Alan Dershowitz offers pointers, while Phyllis Chesler looks at the left's animosity-The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It By Phyllis Chesler Jossey-Bass, 320 pages, $38.95-The Case for Israel By Alan Dershowitz John Wiley & Sons, 272 pages, $29.95-By GIL TROY Special to The Gazette-The Montreal Gazette, Saturday, October 18, 2003 Section: Books & Arts, p. 13

An Internet Version of the Nazi Yellow Star-By GIL TROY-THE IVORY TOWER-The Forward - OCTOBER 17, 2003

New values for a new year-By GIL TROY -The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition-September 24, 2003

How Pride Beat Hate in Montreal-By GIL TROY -THE IVORY TOWER-The FORWARD -September 5, 2003

Self-critical without self-loathing-By GIL TROY -The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition-August 27, 2003

When Children Are Killed-By Gil Troy-The Montreal Gazette, Aug 22, 2003

Carrying A Big Stick-By GIL TROY-THE IVORY TOWER-The FORWARD- August 1, 2003

Bumping into history-By GIL TROY-The Canadian Jewish News Internet Edition - July 30, 2003

Our Suburban Superficiality-By Gil Troy-The Forward-THE IVORY TOWER- JUNE 27, 2003

Israel: The invisible victim-By Gil Troy-The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition - June 22, 2003

JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL : INSPIRING STUDIES IN RENEWAL AND REDEMPTION-By Gil Troy-The Canadian Jewish News-June 19, 2003, pp. 28-30

A Hero's Quest-By Gil Troy-Moment Magazine, a conversation on Jewish culture, politics, and religion-Volume 28, Number 3 June 2003/Sivan 5763

Mobilize the Homefront-By GIL TROY -Forward-THE IVORY TOWER-May 9, 2003

OVERCOMING TERROR-On Israel&rsquos Independence Day, one has to marvel at the country&rsquos compulsion to defy violence and get back to normal after attacks-By Gil Troy-The Montreal Gazette-May 7, 2003, A31

REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF TERROR AT THE SEDER: LEAVE ONE EMPTY CHAIR AT THE TABLE-By Gil Troy-The Canadian Jewish News-April 16, 2003

'Soprano' Zionist-By GIL TROY-The Forward-THE IVORY TOWER-April 4, 2003

Bush's War-By Gil Troy-THE FORWARD - IVORY TOWER-February 21, 2003

Israel, Beyond the Terrorism-By GIL TROY-The Forward-JANUARY 24, 2003

Needed: Real Zionist Education, Not Hasbara-By Gil Troy -Jewish Education Winter 2002-2003-Educating, Motivating, and Activating Our Youth: Creating Jewish Identity to Combat Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism.

RELUCTANT BELLIGERENCY-By Gil Troy-The Forward-THE IVORY TOWER-20 December 2002, p. 8

THIS HANUKKAH, LET'S TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW TO GIVE-by Gil Troy The Canadian Jewish News - 28 November 2002, B2-B3

Letters from Israel are moving, informative An American rabbi and educator recounts joys, challenges, of life in the Jewish state-Gil Troy-Freelance-Montreal Gazette-Saturday, November 23, 2002

Guilt trips don't lead to Israel trips-BY GIL TROY-Jerusalem Post - Nov. 6, 2002

Academic Inquiry Fails on Campus-By GIL TROY-The Forward-OCTOBER 25, 2002

Meeting Palestinian Terrorism With 9/11 Resolve-By GIL TROY-The Forward - SEPTEMBER 20, 2002

A Simple and Clear Agenda for the new year-By GIL TROY -The Canadian Jewish News, M Page 11-September 5, 2002

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: There is a Deep Moral Divide Between Those Who Deliberately Target Civilians and Those Who Don't-By Gil Troy-Montreal Gazette-August 10, 2002

Repel Antisemitism, Reinvigorate Judaism-THE IVORY TOWER-By GIL TROY -The Forward-AUGUST 9, 2002

Preserve The Liberty To Be Civil-By GIL TROY-The Forward-The Ivory Tower- JULY 12, 2002

The Tragedy of Bus 32A-by Gil Troy - Montreal Gazette-June 30, 2002

Just Saying 'Maybe' to Terrorism-By GIL TROY-The Forward- JUNE 14, 2002

Irreconciliable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel(Steven T. Rosenthal; University Press of New England, 2001, 231pp.)-By GIL TROY-Sh'ma : An Online Journal of Jewish Responsibility - Book Reviews - May 2002

DOGMATIC LIBERALISM-By GIL TROY-The Forward-The Ivory Tower-MAY 17, 2002, p. 10

Help the Israeli Victims of Terror-By GIL TROY -Wall Street Journal -COMMENTARY-May 13th,2002

After the rallies what should we do?-By GIL TROY Special to The CJN-The Canadian Jewish News-May 2, 2002 / 20 Iyar, 5762

Jerusalem: City of Peace-BY GIL TROY -Review of Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert-Avi Chai-Featured Reading: Notable Non-Fiction-May 2, 2002

'A Part and Apart'-The 'Happy Dilemma' of Jews in Politics Is the Choice Between Outsiderness And Full Acceptance in America-By GIL TROY -Review of Jews in American Politics-Edited by L. Sandy Maisel and Ira N. Forman-The Forward-APRIL 26, 2002

The birth of a nation-By GIL TROY-The Montreal Gazette, Apr 17, 2002,  pg. B.3.

Remember the victims at the seder-By GIL TROY-The Canadian Jewish News - March 27, 2002

A Green Cure for Zionism's Blues-By GIL TROY-The Forward -MARCH 8, 2002

Pearl's Death Ends an Era of Complacency-By GIL TROY-The Forward-MARCH 1, 2002

Speak 'truth to power'-By Gil Troy-The Canadian Jewish News-Letters-February 28, 2002 / 16 Adar, 5762

Opinions Galore, but Little Wisdom-By GIL TROY -The Forward - JANUARY 25, 2002

Why I am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish identity & the challenges of today By Gil Troy-Mordecai Ben-Dat, (REVIEWER).-The Canadian Jewish News. Jan 3, 2002. Vol. 32, Iss. 1;  pg. 4.

American Jews Disengage While Israel Languishes-By GIL TROY-The Forward-DECEMBER 21, 2001

'Zionism': Still a Grand Old Word-THE IVORY TOWER-By GIL TROY-The Forward-NOVEMBER 30, 2001

Innocents Abroad-By GIL TROY -The Forward-NOVEMBER 2, 2001

A Presidential March of Folly-By GIL TROY-The Forward, THE IVORY TOWER-SEPTEMBER 28, 2001

Words to the Wise on Campus-By GIL TROY-The Forward-SEPTEMBER 7, 2001

Truth, Lies and Professor Ellis-By GIL TROY-The Forward -AUGUST 24, 2001

Bush's Stealth Presidency: Less Is More?-By GIL TROY-The Forward-AUGUST 17, 2001

Kidnapped Israelis deserve justice: The law mandates visits to the victims by a neutral body:[National Edition]-By Gil Troy-National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Aug 14, 2001.  pg. A.12.

Molding the 'Riffraff' Into a Coherent Nation-The Portion NUMBERS 8:1-12:16-
By GIL TROY -The Forward-JUNE 8, 2001

WHY I AM AN ANTI-ANTI ZIONIST-by Gil Troy-Canadian Jewish News, 31 May 2001, p. 11

WHY I AM A ZIONIST-by Gil Troy-The Montreal Gazette-26 April 2001-B3

The Canada-Israel Experience-birthright Israel Reader-by Gil Troy-briREADER2001

The big surprise is how Jewish these "nonreligious" Israelis actually are.-Gil Troy-Moment Magazine October 2000

The right type of friends-By GIL TROY-The Canadian Jewish News-October 26, 2000

Birthright Israel--why I was wrong-By Gil Troy-Moment. New York: Aug 2000. Vol. 25, Iss. 4;  pg. 54, 8 pgs.

Post-Young Judaea Traumatic Stress Syndrome: Diagnosis and Cure - Interview with Gil Troy - Vatikim - The Young Judaea Alumni Newsletter- Issue 3 Spring 2000

Cultivating opportunities for peace-By GIL TROY-Special to The CJN -The Canadian Jewish News, Commentary-May 20, 1999/Sivan 5, 5759

Zionism: What's left?-By Gil Troy-Moment. New York: Apr. 1999.  Vol. 24, Iss. 2;  pg. 62, 5 pgs.

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