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Endocrinologists warn against hormone treatment for childhood gender dysphoria

  • January 16, 2019
I have a transgender friend. She is now in her 50s, so has been taking the relevant hormones for more than 30 years to maintain her female appearance. What I like about Monica (not her real name) is t...
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The Post Millennial

Exploring the phenomenon of the social justice Jewish warrior

  • December 16, 2019
In a recent talk to the Jewish Labor Committee, Hillary Clinton exhorted her audience to bring all their forces to bear to defeating Trump: “It’s gonna be a tough election and you need to bring yo...
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The Post Millennial

Free speech in Canada: It was bad five years ago. Do you think it’s gotten better since?

  • November 14, 2019
Is free speech under attack, on Canadian campuses and in society at large? The National Post has a new documentary exploring this very issue. In the coming weeks, a series of essays in these pages ...
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National Post

Gillette has a problem with men, and now consumers have a problem with Gillette

  • January 17, 2019
In the last few days, the tables have been turned on Gillette, the world’s most famous name in razors. The company has been getting a very close shave from its customers. There isn’t a styptic pen...
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The Post Millennial

HOW DARE YOU: Professor turfed after telling inconvenient climate truth

  • November 4, 2019
In 2011, London’s National Theatre mounted a play, The Heretic, by Richard Bean, that had the hot topic of climate change as its driving theme. His protagonist is a respected academic in the ear...
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The Post Millennial

In a world of sex dolls and robots, ethics are hard to pin down

  • May 28, 2019
The older I get—and I am already pretty old—the more I struggle to find the bright line that existed in my youth between written words that meant what they said and words that were meant t...
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The Post Millennial

Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the problem of compelled speech

  • March 28, 2019
One of my favourite Seinfeld episodes had Kramer joining an AIDS walk. But he refuses to “wear the ribbon.” People keep urging him to take it, and he keeps politely refusing. They become more impo...
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The Post Millennial

J.K. Rowling has lost her magic touch by pandering to progressives

  • April 12, 2019
In 2007,  Harry Potter series creator J. K. Rowling made waves when she revealed that Albus Dumbledore, the much-beloved headmaster of Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and mentor to Harry...
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The Post Millennial

Justin Trudeau is an actor, not a prime minister

  • March 11, 2019
Justin Trudeau’s “contrition” session with the press turned out to be a nothingburger. He did not apologize. He would only cop to an “erosion of trust” between his guy, Gerald Butts, and Jod...
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The Post Millennial

Kay: A binge-worthy look at haredi life

  • February 26, 2019
In the past, on social occasions, it could be awkward when people ran out of topics for conversation, especially if one’s interlocutor was not bookish, thus preventing discussion about the latest go...
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CJNews

Kay: A home for small-c conservative Jews

  • December 12, 2019
Last month, lured by the topics and a roster of brilliant speakers, I finally made it my business to attend the full-day Jewish Leadership Conference in New York that’s sponsored by Tikvah Fund, a c...
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CJNews

Kay: Anti-Semitism is back in Berlin

  • November 14, 2019
We recently commemorated Kristallnacht, history’s most consequential pogrom. The Night of Broken Glass swept Germany over Nov. 9-10, 1938, resulting in 91 deaths, countless other Jews abused and 1,0...
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CJNews

Kay: Are Arabs worse off in Israel? The numbers say no

  • July 25, 2019
In 2008, a delegation from the Mossawa Center, an NGO that promotes equality for Arab-Israelis, came to Brussels to raise EU awareness about the socioeconomic gaps between Israel’s Muslim and Jewish...
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CJNews

Kay: How Fauda might help to bring peace to the Middle East

  • April 24, 2019
For riveting entertainment, Israeli dramas rule. Several of them deal with the paradoxical realities of life in a flourishing, prosperous society where Jews, both secular and ultra-Orthodox, co-exist ...
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CJNews

Kay: The cesspool of anti-Semitism on the left

  • January 31, 2019
Bernie Farber devoted his latest column to concerns that a few Jews may have voted for Faith Goldy in Toronto’s recent mayoral election. Goldy is the former reporter for the Rebel Media, whose sympa...
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CJNews

Kay: The growing tendency to blame Israel for all Palestinian ills

  • September 19, 2019
Last month, Israa Gharib, a 21-year-old makeup artist from Bethlehem, was allegedly murdered by her father and brother – described as an “honour killing” – for posting a video of herself with ...
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CJNews

Kay: The population bomb’s biggest bomb

  • October 17, 2019
The international buzz surrounding teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s sojourn in North America offers a troubling glimpse into the West’s escalating love affair with climate alarmis...
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CJNews

Kay: The unmentioned hotbeds of anti-Semitism

  • May 23, 2019
One of my niche subjects is the epidemiology of dog bite-related injuries and deaths according to canine breed. Epidemiology, which Wikipedia defines as “the study and analysis of the distribution a...
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CJNews

Kay: Transparently exploiting Jewish history and rituals

  • June 20, 2019
A recent CJN cover story mourned the passing of Jewish TV’s “Golden Age” (“The end of the Golden Age of Jewish TV,” May 30). I’ve watched three of the series singled out for special praise...
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CJNews

Kay: Why Jews should support Bill 21

  • April 25, 2019
Like it or not, Quebec is a “distinct society.” Anglophones and immigrants didn’t like it much in 1977 when Bill 101 came into effect (necessitating the use of the notwithstanding clause, since ...
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CJNews
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