It’s a ‘post-truth’ world, but hasn’t it always been?
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/truth.jpg)
“Post-truth” is not a new phenomenon. Radical skepticism in one form or another has a history stretching back centuries, even millennia.
In U.S.-Israel relations, does leaders’ personal chemistry matter?
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web-trump-bibi.gif)
Historian and CJN columnist Gil Troy will present his analysis of “Israeli Relations in the Trump Era” at a public event at Holy Blossom Temple on March 28.
Perspectives: Israël-Palestine à l’ère Trump
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/frencho.jpg)
Une entrevue avec l’historien et ancien diplomate israélien, Élie Barnavi.
Trump shouts down reporters who ask about anti-Semitism
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WEB-TRUMP.jpg)
President Donald Trump shouted down two reporters who asked him about rising anti-Semitism in America and said he “hates” being called an anti-Semite, although neither reporter called him one
Why, as a woman and a Jew, I marched
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/whyimarched.jpg)
Why I chose to walk seven kilometres to Queen’s Park and then back on Shabbat, to participate – like so many other committed Jews – in a march of protest, solidarity and resistance.
Trump calls phone call with Netanyahu ‘very nice’
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/WEB-Netanyahu-Trump.gif)
The U.S. president invited Netanyahu to Israel next February during a phonecall with the Israeli Prime Minister on Jan. 22
A new pharaoh rises, and it’s Donald Trump
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pharaoh2.jpg)
Parshat Shmot reminds us as Diaspora Jews to make sure we are “known” to the new U.S. president, as Joseph was to the new pharaoh.
Bernie Farber: Rabbi Hier to pray for Jews at Trump inauguration disgraceful
![](https://thecjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/hier-and-reagan.jpg)
The dean of Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance leading a prayer at the Trump inauguration disgraceful, will tarnish values museum founded on, Bernie Farber writes.