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Five minutes ago, I discovered that Isaac Choua is not only someone preserving Lebanese Jewish memory. He is Rabbi Isaac Choua, a rabbinic adviser and board member of the Sephardic Brotherhood of America.
From Eretz Israel to Montreal City Hall: Councillor Zorchinsky Moves to Block Anti-Israel Initiative
First, a small but very important Shavua Tov appreciation for Ashley Steinwald and that beautiful hair of hers. Hashem girly, may God continue to bless those curls.
Not long after the motion became public, Councillor Anastasia Zorchinsky took to Instagram to strongly oppose the proposal and warn about what it could mean for Montreal’s Jewish and Israeli communities.
Stronger Together Against Islamist Extremism
A new generation of Sidonians is speaking openly about a part of the city's history that was too often ignored.
Thank you for having the courage to film one of the videos I have been waiting years to see. You probably have no idea how much this means to me.
Cohen, the legendary interviewer, not to be confused with the Jewish royal family that has run VSL for decades, finally caught up with Zorchinsky and Sylver at Ben-Gurion University event in Montreal.
In a stunning act of elegant Instagram diplomacy on Shavua Tov, right before everyone started their week, Ashley Steinwald released a video from Cocktail & Connect for Young Jewish Professionals in Montreal.
The relationship between the ancient Judeans and the Sidonians was a relationship of neighbors, traders, craftsmen, religious rivals, and spiritual borderlands.
Anastasia Zorchinsky issued a forceful response after an overnight arson attempt was reported at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount, Montreal.
After Omar Alghabra was assigned to a committee meant to fight antisemitism, she erupted. She called the decision a national disgrace, a political insult, and a direct slap in the face to Jewish Canadians.
Baghdad, June 1941. It is worth noting that Eshayek himself is from Baghdad, so this is not some distant historical reference for him. It comes from a city tied to his own roots.
I have been monitoring Neil Oberman’s work for a while now.
Some people enter your life and leave a mark that cannot be explained immediately. You meet them once, you hear their story, you feel their presence, and something inside you understands that this encounter will stay...
Drew Sylver has become one of the more visible student voices at Concordia University, standing at the intersection of campus politics, Jewish student advocacy, student governance, and institutional accountability.
A recent video by Ashley Steinwald raises a painful but necessary question: where does political criticism end, and where does antisemitism begin?
Montreal is no longer facing a simple debate about protest. It is facing a civic test.
Montreal is facing a disturbing question: when does protest stop being political speech and become public intimidation?
A disturbing video from Montreal has sparked outrage after an effigy that appeared to depict a Jewish figure wearing a kippah was seen hanging by a noose during an anti-Israel rally.
On Shavua Tov, Sylver decided to enter the regional drama like a man who had already finished three espressos and chosen chaos.
Councillor Zorchinsky used the moment this Shavua Tov to celebrate what she described as a win for the entire Jewish community and for Israel.
Sidon was not Judea, and it was not conquered by Asher. But in the Hebrew Bible, Sidon appears at the northern edge of Asher’s inheritance, where Israelite geography met the Phoenician coast. Asher’s world was one of oil, orchards, sea routes, borderlands, and unfinished conquest, making Sidon not a hidden Judean city, but a powerful Phoenician place remembered inside Hebrew biblical memory.
Jewish memory is not foreign to the Arab world. It belongs to it. For centuries, Jews and Muslims lived as neighbors, sometimes unequally, sometimes tensely, but often with deep cultural connection. Arabic was a Jewish language. Baghdad, Cairo, Fez, Córdoba, Damascus, Aleppo, Sidon, Beirut, and Jerusalem were all part of Jewish history. The protection of Jews by Arab and Muslim societies should not be romanticized, but it should be remembered. It proves that another relationship was possible. It proves that coexistence is not a Western invention. It existed in the Middle East, in North Africa, in al-Andalus, in Ottoman cities, and in Muslim homes that opened their doors to Jews in danger.
A sharp editorial piece on how campus activism became polluted by intimidation, slogans, and anti-Zionist loyalty tests, and how Zorchinsky fought back with discipline, Jewish moral clarity, and zero apologies.
The Ash was spotted mentioning the Hash on her Instagram story.
Montreal loves Jewish culture. The bagels, the hospitals, the writers, the memory work, the whole soul of it. Now try protecting Jews. Safety is the minimum.
In a campus gossip dispatch, Eshayek’s name resurfaces around judicial-overhaul language, democratic panic, and the strangely selective courage of people who find their voice only when the subject feels safely fashionable.
In a furious campus-politics dispatch, Zorchinsky confronts what she calls the quiet humiliation of Zionist students being forced to shrink, soften, or hide their identity just to survive in academic spaces.
A warm, stylish, slightly amused Montreal-coded tribute to Pilates Jewish girlies: disciplined, elegant, coffee in hand, tote bag on shoulder, group chat fully active, and dreaming of safe Jewish spaces from Mile End to Sidon.