I Co-Founded a Jewish High School Because My Own Kids Had Nowhere to Go I have three kids. At one point, all of them were teenagers. Now, they’re almost adults. None of them attended Toronto’s only Jewish high school. Like most Jewish parents, I assumed the kids would...
Machloket L’Shem Shamayim? How Zionism is Fracturing the Jewish Community (…Part 1) We often joke in our Chosen Food course that every Jewish holyday could be summed up with the quip: “They tried to kill us. They failed. Let’s eat.” Behind that old...
It Could Have Ended Very Differently 58 years ago today, the situation in Israel was dire… Exponentially more than it is today – but for wholly different reasons. Ever since the Egyptians closed the Tiran Straits on May 22, blockading Israel from any and all...
To Bean or Not to Bean? Judaism’s Great Passover Debate Judaism is a complicated religion. Thousands of years of history and wanderings all over the planet have led to an accumulated wealth of traditions of all kinds. Some of these traditions or...
“And By Your Sword You Shall Live” – Masada’s Legacy in an Age of Crisis On October 12, 1984, the Irish Republican Army exploded a bomb planted in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, UK. Their target was then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her ministers. It...
Unremarkable On this day in 1906, a thoroughly unremarkable man was born to a middle-class family in Solingen in western Germany. His early years garnered no mention in the local records beyond his birth, and when his family moved to Linz, Austria in 1913, his less...
