Imagine the personal essay this rabbi could write
Plus a pair of fresh podcast chats
The case for marrying Abraham? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the new wave of post-feminist personal essays
Rabbi Tzvi Kushlevsky, 88, of Jerusalem, recently had his first baby. I say “had” but it certainly wasn’t Kushlevsky doing the childbearing itself. (No post-natal spin class at the JCC for him!)
Rather, it was his wife, whom the Jerusalem Post estimates at “approximately 56 years old.” A slip of a thing. It’s all relative.
Well, it turns out age-gap relationships are having a similar moment in the secular world…
The rest of the world is waking up to how bad things have gotten for Jews in Canada
A slew of headlines came out this week, within Canada and beyond, warning of a rising tide of antisemitism within Canada. It’s not just Fox News and the National Post—when the Times of Israel is reporting on Canadian Jews worrying their “golden age” is over, and the Globe and Mail warns of a “dangerous slide into antisemitism“, you know things have gotten bad.
Nobody knows this better than Ellin Bessner, host of The CJN Daily, who has been reporting on day-to-day antisemitic acts, political shifts and everything else in the Jewish community since she started her breaking-news podcast in May 2021. To help understand the cultural shift, as well as Canadian government’s recent actions and internal divisions vis-a-vis Israel, she joins for a macro view of everything that’s happened in the last month (and longer).
