Rev. of From the President's Office: A Journey Towards Reconciliation in a Divided Cyprus by George Vassiliou

The article discusses the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop or Hitler-Stalin pact that was signed on August 23, 1939. It mentions that the Soviet Union has saved 12 million people including two million Jews in Poland from Hitler's...

Presents the first annotated English translation of a letter written by Charles de Montesquieu to William Domville, probably in the summer of 1749. The translation is preceded by a discussion of Montesquieu's ideas on the relationship between middle-class involvement in commercial activity and ...

The article examines the "Tale of the Troglodytes," which shows that Montesquieu's interest in moderate regime based on commerce can be traced back to the time of the writing of the "Persian Letters." It cites that Montesquieu's tale proposes that the practice of commerce could teach citiz...

Rev. of The citizen's voice: twentieth century politics and literature, by Michael Keren

Discusses the role of Canadian-born arctic explorer, scientist, and writer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), who, during the 1930's-40's, became active in the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidzhan (or Ambijan), a US Communist front organization that relocated Jews to eastern ...

'Creating the Chupah assesses the role of Canadian Zionist organizations in the drive for communal unity within Canadian Jewry in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Two strands of Zionism, represented respectively by the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada and Poale Zion, were oft...

'This collection of academic articles in three languages, English, Russian, and Yiddish, covers in a comprehensive manner the history and culture of the Jewish societies in the Far East, geographically close, yet existing in very different political systems. The collection also analyses the mechanis...

Let me share with CJN readers an anecdote that, I believe, speaks to the tunnel vision we Jews in Canada exhibit politically. In the winter of 2000, while on vacation in Florda, I was criticizing the Liberal party's attitudes towards the Middle East to my mother in a small fruit store in Hallandale....

Islanders may have come to accept the reality of closer economic ties with the other provinces in the region, but they still balk at any suggestion of political union; the most recent wave of pro-union sentiment elsewhere in Canada has met a frosty reception on PEI. The Guardian, the island's most i...

New history textbooks introduced into mainstream secular elementary schools in 1999 paint a more nuanced picture of the Arab-Jewish struggle for the country, in order, these pedagogues hope, to develop a new generation of more tolerant and pluralistic Israelis. The new books state, for instance, tha...

The lovely town of Marmaris sits on a beautiful peninsula surrounded by pine-clad mountains on all sides, where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean. The splendid harbour is home to Turkey's biggest yacht marina, and the seaside promenade is lined with wonderful shops and restaurants. The beaches are ...

In his lengthy and thought-provoking piece in the September 2004 issue of Commentary, titled 'World War IV,' Norman Podhoretz, Commentary's former and longtime editor, expresses a related message well: 'We are up against a truly malignant force in radical Islamism and the states breeding, sheltering...