The futility of war: Jewish soldiers of World War I
During World War I, from 1914-1918, approximately 2,700 Canadian Jews (and possibly more) served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, with about 1,200 seeing combat. Of those, an estimated 123 died in battle
Unearthing a gold mine of old treasures from the Forward
Editor Ezra Glinter has gone deep into the archives of New York’s famous Yiddish Forward newspaper, unearthing stories from days gone by
Collagist connects to Pompeii through the fall of a villain
John A. Schweitzer diminishes Hadrian by referring to the crumbling vestiges of Hadrian’s Wall in the title and in the content of his 2010 collage series Vallum Hadrianus.
Where you go, I shall go
Loyalty may be a troublesome concept for philosophers, but it has never been a question for Jews, writes Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
Tory MP calls on government to apologize for St. Louis
Deepak Obhrai is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to formally apologize on behalf of the government of Canada for turning away Jewish refugees on board the ocean liner St. Louis in 1939
Yiddish-speaking parrot narrates book on Jewish pirates
At its core, Yiddish for Pirates, though fictional, is a historical novel that sails the stormy, eventful sea of Jewish history at the end of the 15th century
A brief timeline of Jews in the Rhodesias
The first Jews arrived in Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) during the 1880s
France honours Canadian air force vet for wartime service
The government of France has recognized Cyril Epton’s role in liberating that country by presenting him with “The Knight of the French Legion of Honour” insignia, the country’s highest decoration
A Jewish woman on our bank notes?
Recently, the Bank of Canada announced its list of 12 distinguished Canadian women, one of whom will be immortalized on a new series of bank notes. Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, the only Jewish woman to make the cut, is one of the most outstanding female athletes in Canada’s history
Some pogroms were about politics, not anti-Semitism – prof
In comparing three pogroms that happened at three different points in Jewish history, political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein claims that some anti-Jewish violence of the “neighbour-on-neighbour” variety was politically, not culturally or ideologically, driven
