Chagai Shrem and Evyatar Kerner are shlichim (Israeli educational emissaries) working with the Jewish community in Montreal. In this interview, they share their personal backgrounds, their impressions of Jewish life in Montreal, and the message they hope to convey to the Jews of Montreal.

Once again, we are stuck in an uncertain hope-fear paradox, in which the future has immense potential for peace but could easily descend into chaos.

“Everything is way harder all the time, and it doesn’t get easier, ever. We live life on hard mode”.

“Hearing stories from friends in the army showed us all that this generation has some serious heroes hidden within it”

Israel is facing a defining moment in its dispute over drafting ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). 

This was not a moment for action, but for painful acceptance.

Israel needs to make up its mind about Qatar. Either they are a security risk or they are not. Any more Katy Perry-esque ambivalence on that front will only compromise Israel’s security further.

 The proposed ban on public prayer raises complex questions about the balance between secularism and religious freedom in Quebec. The bill’s ambiguity could unintentionally restrict peaceful religious practices that are fundamental to the Jewish community. 

There is something strange about making aliyah and having your identity be defined by the fact that you came here to do your service.

In May 2024, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attended the thirty-ninth summit of the Arab League in Manama, Bahrain. Only a year before, Syria had been readmitted to the League following twelve years of suspension in reaction to its leader and president's conduct during the Syrian Civil War. The war, which killed over 500,000 people, at least two-thirds of them civilians, saw Assad and his regime criticized around the world, effectively making his country a pariah often comp

So you can imagine the range of emotions that I’m feeling as I consider the fact that, as I’m writing this, all the living hostages have just returned home to their families. 

Why did man not deserve his own individual declaration of goodness?

Long before the modern states of Iran and Israel came into being, their people shared one of the oldest and most complex relationships in the Middle East.

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