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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.
Ysabella Hazan told JNS that Jewish education must be about identity in addition to the Holocaust.
A union representing part-time employees recently directed teaching assistants to present anti-Israel materials in the classroom.
“Will it play to the next generation? In the current political atmosphere?” noted scholar Ruth Wisse told JNS. “I don’t think so.”
The convert to Orthodox Judaism told JNS about his new album, as well as the pressing need for better black and Jewish-American relations.
Social media is not an echo chamber, and “people should not underestimate their ability to impact and influence people,” Fuld told JNS.
Having kidnapped relatives is like watching a horror film that’s happening to you, said Maayan Shavit, whose cousin has been held hostage since Oct. 7.
Residents of Canada’s most populous city told JNS that politicians and the police must do more to protect Jews.
Of a Canadian city’s outreach to doctors looking to move, the Montreal-based diplomat calls it “cynicism or just irony” to “actively work to weaken Israel’s ability to treat our wounded.”