Category: Culture

A quintessentially Jewish issue has dominated the news and become a prominent election issue ever since the picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying dead in the Mediterranean surf generated headlines worldwide earlier this month. For many, the painful image has crystallized the ongoing question of what...

Over the course of the election campaign to this point, the Jewish community has seen repeated and sometimes flagrant violations of halachic and ethical prohibitions against lashon hara – wicked speech – and some of the 31 transgressions related to it, such as unnecessarily engendering controversy...

Every once in a while, the subject of circumcising male newborns and boys rears its ugly head – no pun intended – and the discussion rarely takes long to veer into ethnocentrism, if not outright intolerance. With the best of intentions, and without realizing it, many...

So it turns out that all-world point guard Steve Nash isn’t going to be a Toronto Raptor next year. Boo hoo. Wonky back and all, the 38-year-old received a contract offer from the Raptors reportedly worth $36 million over three years, but ultimately signed with the Los...

The relatively poor showing of Facebook’s initial public offering of its shares on the NASDAQ exchange shows that, perhaps, finally, the hype around the social networking site may finally be abating. As I post this, Facebook shares have closed around $31 after their third day of...

It’s a good thing the B.C. Liberals are likely going to lose the next provincial election, because aside from being from the wrong side of the ideological pond on most issues, they’ve just resurrected a really bad idea: year-round schooling. Instead of having a 10-month school...

For reasons I can’t explain, I feel a need to redo my kitchen. Which is odd, because I really like my kitchen. Never mind that we renovated it 10 years ago when we moved into our house, or that (by design) it’s relatively neutral and timeless, neither...