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Everything you need to know about the fight over the secret Chabad tunnel in New York that led to 9 arrests
In case you’ve been living underground the past week, a major story broke about police being called to break up a fight happening around a secret tunnel that was dug beneath the Chabad world headquarters in New York City. Justifiably, plenty of questions were raised: who made this tunnel? Why? How long ago? Why were police called? Is any of this going to fan the burning flames of antisemitism and anti-Zionism? Bonjour Chai host Avi Finegold made some calls and read through the media coverage to unearth the truth.
Before then, he and co-host Phoebe Maltz Bovy discuss the national headlines made by a public spat in Windsor, Ont., and how the bizarre culmination of the Ivy League Congress hearings about antisemitism have devolved into internal right-wing fights that have much less to do with Jews than you’d think.
A Jewish neighbourhood without Jews: Phoebe Maltz Bovy considers ‘Only Murders in the Building’
I’ve almost finished watching the 2021 first season of mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building (which is also currently airing the old-fashioned way on CTV in Canada) and a bit embarrassed how long it took me to realize what it is about the otherwise delightful show that feels off…
Martin Short talks about getting a call from “Marsha Levy” of The Canadian Jewish News in 1979, to whom she had to break the news that he’s Catholic, and not the cousin of talk show host David Steinberg—who suggests his psychiatrist cousin would happily talk instead.
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