OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 12-27-11 On our trip to Spain this Hanukkah, my two sons debated whether they should wear their kippot openly, as they usually do, or cover them with baseball caps. The ensuing family debate stirred many compelling Jewish identity dilemmas. Ultimately, their decision worked for them and us. [...]
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The Magic of Keeping Kippot On in Europe
Posted by giltroy on December 27, 2011
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A Rosh Hashanah lesson
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 9-15-11 On July 15, Ronnie Cahana, the 57-year-old rabbi of Congregation Beth-El in Montreal’s Town of Mount Royal, suffered a massive stroke in his brainstem. He now lies immobilized in the Montreal Neurological Institute, unable to talk, walk or even wave. Yet, his mind is intact [...]
Posted by giltroy on September 15, 2011
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A Zionist advocacy timetable for the next five weeks
OP-EDS & REVIEWS We can turn the UN’s “Palestine Season” into another empty victory for the Palestinians. We should stop dreading this fall By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 8-23-11 The writer is Professor of History at McGill University and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem. The author of Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, [...]
Posted by giltroy on August 23, 2011
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Rabbi Hartman offers a ‘theology of response’
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 7-14-11 Although he moved from Montreal to Jerusalem in 1971, Rabbi David Hartman still inspires many Canadians with his warmth, his passion and his brilliance. Similarly, as his new book makes clear, his experiences as a Montreal rabbi continue to shape him, too. In The God Who Hates Lies: [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 14, 2011
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Jerusalem’s magical mix of old and new, East and West
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 7-12-11 I am tired of Israelis complaining that Jerusalem turned “black” – the dismissive shorthand for ultra-Orthodox. And I am tired of visitors on missions visiting Jerusalem on the “seam” – only viewing the real city through the prism of conflicts – between Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, Ashkenazi [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 12, 2011
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