Jacob Sivak
ARTICLES BY: Jacob Sivak
Are We at a Tipping Point? Will Larger Numbers of Jewish Americans Make Aliyah?
In The Arc of a Covenant (2022), a comprehensive book about the history of the relationship between the US and Israel, Walter Russell Mead points out that,...
Arab Israelis Enjoy the Rights of Democracy — The Same Can’t Be Said for Citizens of Other Middle East Countries
On October 13, the Israeli Knesset met to mark a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that included the release of Israeli hostages held by...
Why Israel Is Thriving Despite Years of War and International Attacks
An October 2025 ranking of the world’s economies, using 2026 projections from the International Monetary Fund, indicates that in spite of two years of existential...
Canada’s Indigenous People Who Support Zionism
For Jewish Canadians, the period after October 7 has been a lonely time. The Biblical phrase from the Book of Numbers, describing the Israelites as “a...
Canada’s Residential Schools and the Mistreatment of Jewish Children in Russia and Yemen
September 30 marked Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, a reminder that for more than a century, an estimated 150,000 aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, and...
The Jews Are Not Colonizers in the Land of Israel
A friend recently forwarded a podcast, Environmentalists Against War, by the economist Jeffrey Sachs. While mainly about global geopolitics, Sachs also touches on the Middle East....
The Israeli Cost of the War in Gaza
Gwyne Dyer, a widely syndicated British-Canadian columnist, who describes himself as a military historian knowledgeable about the Middle East, recently compared the number of civilian...
What Happens to Holocaust Memory When There Are No Living Survivors?
It was reported in The Times of Israel that 70% of the 200,000 Holocaust survivors alive today will be gone in the next 10 years. How will...
The Sky Is Not Falling, Israel Will Not Disappear
I was born and raised in Canada, an affluent country, rich in natural resources. An old joke tells us that when Moses was leading the...
Do the Jewish People Know That Our People Never Actually Left the Land of Israel?
Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, describes how anti-Zionists in academia have systematically challenged the moral basis of the Jewish/Zionist story....
Ireland: Antisemitism Without Jews
When Gideon Sa’ar, Israel's Foreign Minister, recently announced the closure of Israel’s embassy in Ireland because of Ireland’s antisemitic actions and anti-Israel posture, it led...
Russian Jews Are Still Coming to Israel
I was young when I first learned about the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. I knew that this number represented two thirds...
Change in the Middle East? Don’t Hold Your Breath
One year after Hamas' October 7 massacre, I noticed a cluster of articles in various sources referring to strategic realignments among some of the players...
What if the Second Temple Hadn’t Been Destroyed?
Tisha B’Av -- the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av -- is referred to as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. It...
