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Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon is a writer based in Canada.

“There are certainly organizations with much stronger reputations within the Jewish community for actually standing up and fighting antisemitism,” the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada told JNS.
There will be “some opportunities to drive back some of that darkness on the horizon with concerted action by Jews and non-Jews alike,” Noah Shack, of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told JNS.
“It is an attack on the lessons we have learned to help prevent repeated mistakes and foster resilience against the illiberal ideologies sweeping the world,” Michael Teper, of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation, told JNS.
Rabbi Chaim Danzinger is finding a “big blessing” even in turbulent times, as hundreds show up to Chanukah and Passover celebrations.
Taub told JNS that he founded Unapologetically Jewish, “because I’ve got tired of hearing, ‘I’m scared, and I don’t know what I need to do.’”
“Every place we went, there was someone who knew where the former cemetery or synagogue was,” David Kaufman told JNS.
Retired English professor Goldie Morgentaler told JNS that her new book, which includes her mother’s letters, is an effort to tell “history on the fly.”
The sentence of 60 days of house arrest “really doesn’t send the serious message that’s required here,” Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS.
“I don’t know how a human being could fit that much into one day, but he was always where he was supposed to be and taught us the importance of showing up,” the cantor’s son told JNS.