by Matthew Friedman | Sep 30, 2021 | Commentary
I am not wearing an orange shirt today, like some kind of grinning Canadian politician, hoping that a photo-op will wash away my country’s sins. Today is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, a new statutory holiday meant to honor “lost...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 19, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Met Gala dress blew-up the Internet last week. For a brief moment, the social- and conventional-media commentariat on the right and the left were able to agree on a matter of critical political import: The congresswoman’s Aurora...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 11, 2021 | Essays
My first memory of that day is of the sky. It was clear and bright, and as I walked along de Terrebonne Street to Concordia University’s Loyola campus, I marveled at the deepness of the blue. I could still see the sky outside the windows of the computer lab in the...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 5, 2021 | Commentary, Essays
I am enraged. The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States last week declining to hear the Center for Reproductive Rights’ challenge to the Texas “Heartbeat Act,” no less than the law itself, has left me apoplectic. The Texas law is the most egregious...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 2, 2021 | Essays, Features, Jewish Life
YidLife Crisis, an award-winning online comedy series featuring fast-talking Montreal funnymen Jaime Elman and Eli Batalion has 20,000 loyal subscribers on YouTube and 17,000 followers on Facebook. The bilingual struggles of the pious, often flawed, but always loving...
