Members Blog

Dear Debbie, Mary, and Melissa,

I wanted to thank you for welcoming me and Kory to your synagogue on such a special mitzvah day on Saturday. Everything was perfect.

That morning, we woke up to heartbreaking news of war, and we had not been able to contact our families to know if they were safe. At first, I was reluctant to go. I was anxious and worried to my stomach. But I...Read more...

Last week, Queen’s Faculty of Law welcomed distinguished international law expert Natasha Hausdorff for her lecture, Genocide Defined: Demystifying International Law. In her lecture, Natasha examined the legal meaning of genocide — a term coined by Raphael Lemkin in the aftermath of the Holocaust and later codified in the United Nations Genocide Convention — and explored its interpretation in contemporary...Read more...

As many of you who are Facebook friends of mine are well aware, I have been very active defending the Jewish people and State of Israel to my 1,000 plus Facebook friends. New to the defense of Jews and Israel is the Movement against antizionism (Maaz) as conceived by Adam Louis-Klein. 

Antisemitism vs antizionism are terms we are often confronted with, within our own Jewish communities and outside of those circles. We hear...Read more...