This is a really good interview and it will be interesting to see if a reasonable discourse actually takes place regarding the stuff discussed around the halfway mark

Hey, Rego Park is where Art Spiegelnan interviews his father in the "present day" sections of Maus.

It's still on Amazon Prime in Canada but starting with "33." I still have my DVDs but I don't know how you otherwise see the ministries first which you kind of need to, I think?

My sister wanted to get a puppy to cheer up her daughter and bought one from someone who turns out to have a long history of selling sick dogs. This puppy had to be put to sleep within a week but it turns out that the breeder sold to the wrong mom. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

The GTA's resident antizionist "Rabbi" is having a full-on meltdown about people saying shooting at Jews is bad, actually.

Tfw two Boston franchises get kicked out of the playoffs in one week.

Oh, it was just a replica gun? Then I guess it was only like a replica of a violent, antisemitic attack and Toronto's Jews remain as safe a they ever were!

In case you missed this… Raptors marching to game 7. #WeTheNorth is not gone yet.

Looking for this guy, in particular, who (allegedly) shot up this shul around the corner from my house, in which my daughter was bat mitzvahed.

Wait a sec. I need to know more about the connections between UJPO and Sharon, Lois and Bram.

There are those who will question the B'nai Brith stats but make no mistake. POLICE-REPORTED crimes compiled by Statscan show and indisputable increase in incidents over 5 years (300%) both as a % and in objective terms. Jews are 1% of the Canadian population. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

I'm guessing the number of 905 residents who can name their Regional Chair is ~10%. Even fewer know what they do or how much they make. Making them electable (as the Libs tried, too late) would have changed this. What the government is doing now exacerbates/exploits a serious democratic deficit.

It's hard to imagine that anyone who didn't much care about the first 15 or so synagogue attacks would start to care after this one, even if it's a slight nudge from shooting at buildings overnight to actually assaulting Jews on their way to pray.

Not that I'm keeping score but the synagogue attacks in the GTA have now racked up: -my childhood shul -the shul where I was married -the shul in which my daughter had her bat mitzvah Can't wait to see what's next! toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/25/m...

Thanks to CBC News for making this public. It's scary this kid nearly murdered numerous Canadian Jews - not "Zionists" but JEWS - but also that prominent people, including the newly crowned federal NDP leader, repeatedly assert that Canadian Jews are completely safe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A sad serendipity to read this the same morning as this article in Judith Magazine, about independent bookstores, in Chicago. These are all the same stories about the same, damaged ecosystem. judithmagazine.substack.com/p/the-great-...

I'm not saying Cathal Kelly is wrong. But I would point out that last year he was positive (based on pretty much nothing) that Vlad Gurrero was leaving Toronto, just before he signed a $500m contract and the team went to the World Series. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

Great @thestar.com piece on how 1063 Avenue Rd. in Toronto became the home and social hub of various people associated with “SCTV” and “Saturday Night Live.” www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Personally, I don't care about soccer and I really don't care about the World Cup and technically I'm not even a Toronto taxpayer but, holy cow, what the city has given to FIFA to in exchange for 6 early round games is ridiculous. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

This article is all sorts of yikes but I think my favourite part is this bit, which is basically the scene in MONEYBALL where David Justice realizes he has to pay for cans of pop in the clubhouse. Except the Leafs are not exactly one of the most cash-poor teams in the NHL.

You'd think that there can't be much more Holocaust stuff to see but until I saw Ken Burns' THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST I'd never seen this gut-punch footage of Capt. David Eichhorn leading the Torah service on shabbat for the liberated prisoners in Dachau. youtu.be/G-Ah-bdDWmg?...

One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off. 1) VERTIGO

Flashing back to the 90s, when The Simpsons and a music called "grunge" were the hot, new things and erstwhile educator Mike Harris removed school board taxing powers, amalgamated boards,reduced the number of trustees, gutted salaries and reformed collective bargaining. Because it was common sense.

It's been a week in Ontario.

I'm not saying I've never made this mistake but in Judaism, days start at sunset ("... And there was evening, there was morning, the first day." etc) So, "this solemn day" is tomorrow; like celebrating Christmas on Dec. 24. Politicians should have staff to check this stuff.

Chairs aren't quite Uber-Mayors but they are key power brokers, even though they only vote to break ties on Council votes. Giving them Strong Mayor powers is fundamentally altering a job that's existed since the 1970s and the least the Province could do to justify it is make them electable.

I can't say I feel "safer" seeing cops stationed in my neighbourhood and going through multiple levels of security just to go to synagogue but it's good to hear that this has apparently resulted in something substantive.

Well that's nice, for a change. Awkward moment, though, for this "Rabbi" and his organization, given how often he makes these false, unsubstantiated accusations against Jews. Less than 4 hrs between scolding a federal politician and the Police press release is impressive!

All my family from Transinistria were murderered or moved to New York and Israel (not coincidentally, the place from Jewish prayers, the Torah etc.) So, politics aside, is it weird that I feel connected to Israel and that it's never occurred to me to, say, root for the Moldovan Olympic team?

I find this explosion in interest in and attraction to Bundism morbidly fascinating. Bundism was an evolutionary dead end. Literally. In Europe almost all got killed, in US/Canada etc they failed or didn't want their kids to be Bundist. The last state in which Bund competed in elections was Israel.

Anger around the corner: How 75 weeks of protest in this Toronto neighbourhood have frayed nerves and fuelled a raging debate www.thestar.com/news/gta/ang...

Jewish-owned restaurant in North York shot up early Friday morning

It's very concerning that anyone would look at her explicitly violent, antisemitic screed and think it's ok because it uses Smart Academic Words. I still hold out a sliver of hope this will actually a be a wakeup call for some people as to where this slippery slope actually leads. 👇

The people who most need to read this to understand how normalized they've allowed antisemitism to become in Canada and how much they've alienated their Jewish neighbours are the least likely to do so. Still, good to see our failures being discusssd in wider forums.

Jewish life in Canada may have “forever changed,” Jesse Brown argues. “I can no longer take for granted that people like me are represented in Canada’s hospitals, schools, newsrooms, and legislatures.”

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Over the past couple of years, especially living just a couple of hundred metres from Toronto proper, it has been a legitimate solace knowing that we have a mayor who gets it, while other politicians speak in bromides or contribute to making it worse.

Went there so many times and it was kinda sad the last time, with the diminished stock. Mostly, I think of the time I bought a tambourine and put in my bag and it wouldn't stop jingling with every step I took until I got home. They don't have off switches.

Yup. I know people would like to imagine that this Utopia is immune to the stuff that goes on in the old, bad place. I'm sad to report that it is not.

If you are here because you like punching Nazis but these pictures largely elicit a shrug, you may have missed a whole, important chapter of what made the Nazis, you know, Nazis.

My take? Let's focus on all the Rotterdam teens who didn't try to blow up a synagogue! Or not think too hard about it at all.

Working on this book was great fun Getting to do a second volume, with all that's happened regarding Toronto's cinematic scene over the past decade, is a real gift.

No arrests at this "protest" in a Jewish neighborhood yesterday. They will be back next week. What wouldn't they be? Neither police nor anyone else cares enough to be coming to the rescue.

Meanwhile, here's what actually goes on at Bathurst and Sheppard, week after week after week, with no peeps ever to be heard from those who have collectively enabled this about hate crimes, how flags might upset some people, giant FUs, public safety risks or anything else of the sort.

The recent acts of violence against Jews, including yesterday’s attack on a Michigan synagogue, showcase the explosive growth of anti-Jewish sentiment as a broadly accepted part of modern culture, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

One of the things that Jokerified me on this website was seeing an Australian leftist patiently explain why the Bondi massacre was actually "anti-Zionist" and not antisemitic. It really makes clear how this rhetoric has spiraled way out of control.

This has become whatever comes after infuriating and exhausting.

One thing people never get when they try to explain why it's happening because of X or Y is that antisemitism is always inherently irrational hate. None of the Medieval tropes make any more sense than Nazi "science" and neither do the slightly reframed "reasons" being used in polite society today.

Anyone wondering what a terrible person looks like, it's a person who hears synagogues were shot at and immediately goes to their convenient folder of screencaps to "prove" that it's likely Jews faking the antisemitic incidents. But whatever you do, don't accuse them of antisemitism!! Gross

This same post on X has 32 reposts and 106 likes. Yeah, I know there are still way fewer users here but if anyone thinks all the Nazis are there and Bluesky is some Edenic bastion of Philosemitism and anti-racism, they need to do the math.