In politics, there’s kicking a hornet’s nest, and there’s tripping over one. Typing up a column about Don Cherry’s suitability for the Order of Canada without being asked to? That’s kicking a hornet’s nest. But here goes. Everyone has an opinion about the former hockey broadcaster. Mine is this: he made hockey games entertaining. He did. Cherry was like Donald Trump, in that you never knew what he was going to say next. But, unlike Trump, Cherry didn’t seem to revel in being

One sign shows a stooped and feral Orthodox Jewish man, wearing a kippah  atop stringy, payot  sidelocks, his eyes black like an animal. Another features the same sort of image: a weeping Orthodox Jew, his nose hooked and exaggerated, begging the United States for salvation. Behind him, another man waves around a sign bearing Israel’s flag, and the word ELIMINATED. A woman, her face visible, holds up a sign that reads in Arabic: “We will knock on the gates of Heaven with the

2026 has been the longest decade in a Century. Here.

The media is in the simplification business. We try to simplify reality. In a world that is complex and cruel and fast-moving, our preferred question often is: “Why did it happen?” Assigning motive following newsworthy events - terrible, horrific events - is what we usually focus on first. A madman gets in his pickup, armed with a gun, with about $2,000 worth of explosives loaded in the back. And then he drives through the doors of Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield,

For Israel, arguably the most consequential foreign policy achievement happened on October 25, 2009. At a wedding. On that date, Jared Kushner married Ivanka Trump, who had earlier that year converted to Judaism. Of their union, the President of the United States would later tell Israel’s Knesset: “[Jared] truly loves Israel…In fact, he loves it so much that my daughter converted…I didn’t know this was going to happen.” “At least, I think they’re happy. If they’re not, we hav

Surveying the headlines, if you feel there is what looks like a coordinated campaign underway to demonize and terrorize Jews - and others - you are right: there is . I document it all in my book The Hidden Hand , out now in eBook form, and out in hardcover next month You can get it up here .

Leon Panetta, the revered former U.S. Secretary of Defence, is speaking about war. “Leaders have to understand,” Panetta says in an interview. “That when you send people into war, you better damn well have a very clear mission for what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.” He pauses. “And, if you constantly change that mission…that really begins to screw up what soldiers are thinking. The reason they’re out there, putting their lives on the line. It begins to hurt your own

Adrienne Batra, Brian Lilley and me on Mark Carney's ever-changing position on the Iran war. For it? Sort-of against it? Ready to send troops? What? Check it out.