Matthew Gindin is a journalist, educator and freelance writer located in Vancouver, BC. He is the Pacific Correspondent for the Canadian Jewish News, writes regularly for the Forward and the Jewish Independent and has been published in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Religion Dispatches, Kveller, Situate Magazine, and elsewhere. He also writes on Medium from time to time.
Matthew Gindin
By Matthew Gindin
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Opinion Israeli Weapons Are Being Used To Ethnically Cleanse The Rohingya. This Must Stop.
As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people are expelled from their homes in Myanmar in one of the most severe examples of ethnic cleansing in recent times, Myanmar has been getting weapons, military training, and skills from a dismaying source: Israel. I’m not the only one who feels dismay that the Jewish State is allowing…
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Music WATCH: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Video For ‘Leaving The Table’
The 2017 Polaris Gala, whose website says they aim to present awards to Canadian artists based on their “artistic integrity,” took place Monday, September 18. Among the evening’s delights was a new posthumous video for Leonard Cohen’s “Leaving The Table,” from his final album, “You Want It Darker.” The animated video opens and closes with…
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Culture The Secret Jewish History Of Sacco And Vanzetti, Executed Radicals
Just after midnight on Aug 23, 1927, 90 years ago today, the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sent to the electric chair in Boston’s Charlestown State Prison. Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who formed part of a radical anarchist milieu, had been convicted of the 1920 murders of a shoe-factory paymaster and the…
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Community Spinoza’ s Radical Views On Freedom Still Have Something To Teach Us 350 Years Later
As the world becomes, to all appearances, a discordant, chaotic jungle inhabited by trees with glass shard leaves and strange, growling nocturnal beasts, it might seem counter-intuitive to seek comfort and guidance from the works of a 17th century Jewish heretic who spent most of his life living quietly as a lens grinder and exchanging…
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Community Another Rock Giant Defends Radiohead’s Israel Performance
Radiohead has provoked a lot of criticism over their upcoming July 19th concert in Tel Aviv from those who advocate boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel (BDS). In particular, lead singer Thom Yorke and BDS proponent Roger Waters have been engaged in a heated back-and-forth surrounding the event. Waters has repeatedly called on the band…
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Community Are You Contributing To Islamophobia? A Recipe For Anti-Muslim Hatred
In light of the recent fatal attack on a Muslim teenager in Virginia and a crowd of worshippers leaving a mosque in London (as well as the shooting of worshippers in a mosque in Canada earlier this year), I think it’s time to ask ourselves if the way we talk about Muslims contributes to hatred…
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Culture Does New Scientific Discovery Undermine The Story Of The Garden Of Eden?
As has been reported by numerous new sources including The New York Times in the last couple of days, the idea that modern humans evolved in East Africa 200,000 years ago has been challenged by the discovery of 300,000-year-old remains in Jebel Irhoud, a Moroccan mine 100km west of Marrakesh. The extreme age of the…
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Culture Can Jews Enjoy The New Roger Waters Album — Despite His BDS Beliefs?
Can a Jew Enjoy Roger Waters’ new album? Roger Waters, passionate supporter of BDS, purported anti-Semite, and Thom Yorke’s worst nightmare released his long-awaited new album, his first in 25 years when he released the critically acclaimed “Amused To Death.” Can a Jew enjoy this album in good conscience? First, the album itself. There is…
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