There are some commentators on North American Jewry, largely neo-Cons such as Norman Podhoretz and Ruth Wisse, who are puzzled by the persistent liberalism of their fellow Jews. Why should Jews in the United States who “earn like Episcopalians, vote like Puerto Ricans,” is the question raised by this now somewhat dated quip.
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I have been looking and listening but have not seen or heard any organizational voices raised in the Canadian Jewish community to protest against the unfair attack pamphlet issued by the Conservatives.
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Piling on. In football there is a penalty for it. After a ball-carrying player is down, any additional tackle or blow is penalized. Sometimes in life, however, it just seems to go on and on, unabated. Such, at least, is what has been happening to Robert Latimer.
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A “gambit” is one or a series of clever opening moves in a chess game. Bibi Netanyahu has recently demonstrated a mastery of the board and has dominated the play against Barack Obama. Unfortunately, there are more than pawns to be sacrificed in this contest.
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Canadians are deeply attached to our traditions of civil liberties and free speech and Canadian Jews have been counted among their most ardent defenders. We honour such heroes of Canadian liberty in our past such as Justice Bora Laskin, David Lewis, and more recently Alan Borovoy, soon to step down as leader of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Yet, in the last months Canadian Jewry has played an unfortunate role in setting back the cause of free speech in a series of unfortunate events.
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I once attended an international conference where a Latin American delegate asked a staff member of a prominent American Jewish organization whether her association enjoyed democratic governance. She rightly replied that her own and most other such groups were governed not through elections but by self perpetuating “makcherocracys” (a makcher is an influential person or ‘big deal’).
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I get tired of all the news of conflict from the Middle East . I hoped to be able to wake up this morning to the news that Israel ’s great writer Amos Oz had won a Nobel prize but we will have to wait for that. But there is interesting news on the technological front.
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By Riki Ellison, President and Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA)
On October 6, 2009, Members of the United States Senate passed, with overwhelming support, an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, directing Lt. General Patrick O'Reilly, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, to provide options by February 1st next year to deploy an additional Ground-Based Interceptor site in Europe or the United States to provide defense for our nation against future long-range missiles from Iran.
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I feel the frustration the City Councillor Sandra Bussin was going through when she called in the Toronto radio station to express her resentment and views over what was being said about the outgoing mayor.
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I voted for Barack Obama last November, despite receiving countless negative e-mails, many of which originated from the Jewish Republican Committee. I was told that he was a Muslim, that he was anti-Israel and anti-semitic.
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