This man is so amazing and they cannot get him the ring he (and the city of Buffalo) deserves.

Vibes. #Bluejays

What is making me lose it over this story: yes Breads is doing well in NYC... and part of why that is has to do with Jewish customers wanting it to succeed, for Jewish-solidarity-type reasons.

Pathetic.

You might have missed some of these. I noticed every, single one of them (and I wasn't in Canada over the holidays).

Neil Diamond rose to fame at a time when Jewish identity was visible in culture, but a new film loosely inspired by a real-life Diamond tribute act omits his heritage. The writer Mireille Silcoff calls it a pattern: "The stories are about us, but we're not in them." nyti.ms/4sA86kz

Whether it's the lyrics, the animation or actually getting Darlene Love to sing, this testimony to Robert Smigel's genius never fails to delight. youtu.be/BGzO1ghRKp4?...

Let the word go forth from Toronto, where "Diversity is our strength," that as shabbat began, on the 6th night of Chanukah in 2025, there were "no (known) threats to Toronto's Jewish commnity!" What a heartbreaking state of affairs, folks, that this requires saying.

Well, this seems pretty scary but then I've been assured Canadian Jews are actually completely safe so little attempted kidnapping around the Greater Toronto Area is perhaps not worth getting too fussed over? www.tps.ca/media-centre...

It's been ages since I bought anything on Ebay but I could no longer resist the call of this vintage (1974) CN Tower whiskey bottle, which is basically a work of art. Wondering if I could decant into it or should leave it as is...

Are things picking up or slowing down? Hard to keep track over here.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I had just let the whole thing wash over me. I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands,” the author Stephen King writes about seeing “Stand by Me,” Rob Reiner’s adaptation of King's novella “The Body.”

Also worth flashing back to Episode 3 of What is Happening Here? where Dave Meslin asserts all the vandalism, school shootings, bomb threats and arrests of terrorists, all demonstrative of a clear spike, only prove how SAFE Canadian Jews are. I'm not so sure. www.canadaland.com/podcast/3-as...

I now look forward to every Jewish holiday in the GTA where I'm supposed to feel safer because of an amped-up police presence.

For 2 years, when Canadian Jews have asserted rising antisemitism is a problem, this would-be federal party leader has repeatedly asserted how safe he feels and laughingly mocked us as "crybullies. " Now he's worried about consequences and courage. Just an embarrassing lack of self-awareness.

After Jewish senior citizens in an assisted living facility in Toronto had the mezuzahs ripped off their doorframes in an act of hate, volunteers helped them put the mezuzahs back up. Our love for our community will always be stronger than their hate 💜

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 84.

"The stark reality is that for years, Netanyahu has not been leading Israel but rather has been led by those whose support he needs to survive, and his nation has suffered for it, slowly shredding its internal cohesion, democratic legitimacy, and international freedom of action."

Somehow Doug Ford is going to try to take credit for this.

See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but may not said. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me. "

As I said at the other place, this is a fascinating listen. With such a in-depth interview, Meslin is able to explain himself at length, making sense for a bit but ultimately exposing all the underlying contradictions and hypocrisies he's constructed.

Amazing something so evident needs to be written in a Opinion piece but in 2025 Toronto it's good it's being said nonetheless.

It is happening here. “No country in the world since October 7th has had more its synagogues threatened, vandalized, and firebombed than Canada.” www.canadaland.com/shows/what-i...

Just published. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4cQ...

No such thing as bad publicity?

Just an amazing rash of hate over the past week or two in Toronto and the GTA. Mark Nov. 11 on your calendar as the day Toronto Police are looking for two separate suspects in two different antisemitic attacks. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/11/n... www.tps.ca/media-centre...

Did she also say something about a single Toronto synagogue being vandalized 10 times? Was a solidarity march announced, just to make it clear that these 2 things are actually completely separate issues?

Now that attacks on this one Toronto synagogue have hit double digits, I feel pretty confident calling this an abject failure of leadership, and well beyond, at this point.

Blue Jays fans looking for perspective in the coming days and weeks would do well to read this, from @benlindbergh.bsky.social at The Ringer.

What makes social media beautiful is the diversity of voices in display. Great to see everyone blaming a different Blue Jay for costing us the series, for example!

It feels like every urbanist who posted gloating pictures of the Dodgers Stadium parking lot owes an apology. Having the stadium next door to the country's biggest transit hub doesn't count for much when there's no transit service running from it after games. Small-town embarrassing, actually.

Shouldn't be up this early. Feeling less zen about it all right now.

Me every year from 1985 through 91. Then (Bills fan)continuing through 1994.

I should be crushed. But I remember the spring, when this team was coming off 74 wins and we didn't know if Vladdy and Bo would still be on the team by mid-year. This was a nearly perfect dream. Also, I'm a Bills fan and those 4 Super Bowls broke my spirit.

Sad. But what a season. What a series. Sigh.

Shoutout to the Sportsnet staffer who played "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" coming out of commercial. #WANTITALL

Poetry. Happy for Max. What a pleasure to watch him do his thing one more time. #WANTITALL

The one good thing is that the Fox feed is about a full minute behind the Canadian feed so I get to watch every exciting call "live" twice.

When Bo hit that HR I was still trying to wrap my head around flipping to Fox where a retired ump explained that there is a clock for pitchers, by rule, but Ohtani is special so, eh, whatchagonnado?

Sportsnet not going to commercial is not dispersing the intensity...