As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, it offers the opportunity for the Jewish community to evaluate its role within Canadian society, and how it has evolved since Confede...
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Jews are far more likely to be victims of hate crimes in Canada than Muslims. But a motion called M-103 is coming before Parliament on February 16 to urge special consideration reg...
Why Bill C-51 will likely lead to wrongful convictions for sexual assault
In his Toronto Sun column of July 9, (“Just some legal spring cleaning”) André Marin took strong exc...
The death of actress Mary Tyler Moore prompted a lot of reflection upon her revolutionary TV portrayal of a modern, single woman.
Her show hit the sweet spot in the development of...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? Who watches the watchmen in our society? That is the case before the court of public opinion in Canada today.
The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) regulates...
Last August, two law professors, Amy Wax and Larry Alexander, wrote an op ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer arguing that the 1950s prescription for success – get an education before you marr...
The “identity model” of working with transgender people stipulates that it is wrong to question someone's self-determined identity. The mental health model looks at the underlying c...
Pit bull–type dogs in Canada today are estimated to number in the hundreds of thousands. But in the 1990s, there would have been relatively few. So their characteristic mode of attack was...
In my last Rebel video, I spoke about the hijab and the push to normalize it in our culture.
If adult women freely choose to wear the hijab, that’s concerning but essen...
Very young children do not see animals as “other.” It seems natural to them that stories should feature animals who speak and wear clothing. There is no harm in that. Babar, Curio...
Jews have always had a special fascination with Freud’s theories—no one more so than my own mother
“The Jewish psychiatry of the communists is . .&thi...
Some Canadian aboriginal activists think the $60M Truth and Reconciliation Commission just wasn’t enough for their liking.
Staffed with 75 people, 48 of them aboriginal...
As the definition of sex assault becomes broader and shallower, men become ever more vulnerable to the heavy hand of a legal system that is biased toward women.
“Stealt...
In January 2016, a 24-year-old woman in Mannheim, Germany was reportedly raped by three migrants. At first, she identified them to police as German nationals, later explaining her lie as reluctance...
My Jewishly oriented attention was captured – and in short order captivated – by a five-part series in the Jerusalem Report, written by its senior editor, Amotz Asa-El. His crisply written essays,...
M-103, the motion now being debated in Parliament, was carefully structured to look like an innocent show of solidarity with all victims of racism in Canada, with the casual addition of &l...
Revitalizing Judaism and applying Jewish values to help heal our imperiled planet
by Richard H. Schwartz with Rabbi Yonassan Gershom and Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Barbara Kay is a ...
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