Letters to the Editor
Funding day schools debated With all due respect to Mordechai Ben-Dat (“Recent events show UJA failing to heed decades-old warning,” Nov. 2), his criticism regarding UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s failing day schools is unwarranted. Twenty-six per cent of federation’s budget goes to day schools, a very hefty amount, considering the huge number of agencies […]
You flushed it all away Harvey Weinstein
Lauren Kramer writes about the man who had everything going for him but blew it all.
GUEST VOICE: TanenbaumCHAT tuition cut important first step
At the recent TanenbaumCHAT town hall, the more we listened, the more it underscored for us that the consolidation is only a part of the larger challenge of the affordability of Jewish education.
Letter: Without Jewish education, what Jewish future?
We should feel a sense of failure for every Jewish child who will no longer have access to a Jewish high school education due to poor financial planning – or worse, poor management of available resources.
Letters to the editor (Dec. 29 issue)
Letters to the editor for the week of Dec. 29, 2016
Week of Aug. 4, 2016
Remembering Elie Wiesel This was one of the most impactful days of my life (“The day words failed Elie Wiesel”). I was there, a 15-year-old full of everything 15-year-olds are full of, with some of my best friends, in the presence of giants and ghosts. Thank you Eli Rubenstein for putting words to paper so […]
Week of July 28, 2016
Playing politics The headline read “Tory MP calls on government to apologize for St. Louis.” There is nothing wrong in that request, except one must ask, where was Deepak Obhrai, the Alberta Conservative MP, when he served in the Stephen Harper government as parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs and for international human […]
Week of July 21, 2016
Remembering Wiesel The world lost one of the most important witnesses. I lost a friend and mentor and the Holocaust survivors lost a leader with the death of Elie Wiesel. Since meeting Elie in 1960, he was my guiding star, especially while creating the Toronto Holocaust Centre, and he was always available when asked for […]
Week of July 7, 2016
The Yazidis’ plight The plight of the Yazidis is indeed heartbreaking, as Michael Diamond writes (“Who will stand up for the Yazidis?”). More needs to be done to help this threatened minority group. But I would like to take issue with the characterization of the Canadian Jewish community as “derelict” because so many of us […]
Week of June 30, 2016
Mount Sinai memories A nice surprise happened when I opened the June 16 edition of our CJN. The article on Jewish hospitals showed a picture of my father, Dr. Simon Fines, examining a boy at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was accompanied by Dorothy Dworkin and, I am quite sure, E.F. Singer, the then chairman of […]
