by Matthew Friedman | Nov 22, 2019 | Commentary, Satire
Good sense seems to be breaking out all over in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Elizabeth Warren has shown her political acumen and practicality by backing-off from her previously-held Medicare-for-All position this week. Pete Buttigieg, who...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 10, 2019 | Commentary
We woke on the morning of Yom Kippur to the news from Halle. I felt queasy, but not surprised. My first thought was “of course: another holy day, another attack.” This has happened before; it has happened too many times before. In the last year alone, fourteen people...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 2, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
If you spend enough time in the Jewish social media universe, you start to see the same questions repeated over and over: Are the children of intermarriage with Gentiles really Jewish? Did the Khazars really exist? Why is chicken “meat?” The conversations on Facebook,...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 24, 2019 | Commentary
I have been remembering high school this week, in the wake of the revelations of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s history of racist actions. And not fondly. As Matthew Barlow noted in The Typescript last week, “racism runs deep” in Canada, a reality that...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 11, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
And they’re off! The Canadian election began this morning at about 10:00, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Governor General Julie Payette – Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Canada – to dissolve Parliament and call for a new vote. All I can think of is...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 14, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
O ye wha are sae guid yoursel’, Sae pious and sae holy, Ye’ve nought to do but mark and tell Your neibours’ fauts and folly! – Robert Burns *** There are few things so rank as self-righteous ignorance, and Scott Gilmore’s op-ed article in...