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Judaism

Illustration by Tine Modeweg-Hansen
March 2017

Among the Hasidim

February 22, 2017April 9, 2020 - by Joseph Rosen

Did resenting my ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbours make me a bad multiculturalist?

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Photograph by Michael Jones
Society

Psychiatry’s Chosen People

January 19, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Barbara Kay

Jews have always had a special fascination with Freud’s theories—no one more so than my own mother

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Photograph by aaron007
Books

Lost World

October 12, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Daniel Baird

Is generational anxiety keeping Jewish literature alive?

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Photograph by NPGpics
Books

Crucible of Grief

July 3, 2016April 4, 2022 - by Barbara Kay

Elie Wiesel gave me a renewed faith in the survival of the Jewish people–with or without God’s help, with or without God

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Photograph by Philippe Landreville, Supreme Court of Canada Collection
Justice

Justice and Peace

June 1, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Rosalie Abella

From a displaced persons camp in Germany to the first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court of Canada—Rosalie Abella on why she entered law

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Photograph by SpaceShoe
Society

Notes from the Inside of a National Disgrace

October 5, 2015May 15, 2022 - by Stephen Marche

Ottawa’s treatment of Jews fleeing the Nazis was shameful. With Syrian refugees yearning for a safe home, will Canadian history repeat itself?

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Photograph by Jason Ransom
Politics

The Partisan Debate Dividing The Jewish Community

September 1, 2015May 25, 2022 - by The Walrus

For generations, Canadian Jews have disagreed over key issues. But why does it split along party lines?

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Man running from stone
September 2015 / Society

Saint-Laurent’s Ghosts

August 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Ezra Glinter

Jewish Montreal’s landmark tombstone store ditches the Main

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A New Front in the Pius Wars

May 13, 2015February 8, 2022 - by Michael Coren

A film being screened at Cannes portrays the wartime pope as a hero who saved 800,000 Jews. The truth is far less inspiring

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July/August 2013 / Society

Virtual Homeland

June 19, 2013August 28, 2017 - by Stephen Strauss

Reimagining the Jewish state that never was, in Grand Island, New York

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