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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Culture Richard Spencer’s Awful Response to Quebec Murders
As is well known by now, Canadian police allege that on Sunday Alexandre Bissonnette, a French Canadian White Nationalist who is reportedly a fan of Marine LePen walked into a mosque at prayer in Quebec City and opened fire, killing at least six people and wounding many more. Regis Labeaume, the mayor of peaceful Quebec…
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Culture Approaching His 80th Birthday, Philip Glass Still Fighting ‘Minimalist’ Label
Phillip Glass, who turns 80 on Jan 31st, is a man struggling with his legacy, at least how it exists in the popular mind. “If people called me an American opera composer it would have the virtue of being what I actually do”, he told the Guardian yesterday. “This is reality. God forbid we should…
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Community Trump’s Gift To America
Today one of the most shocking and disturbing events in American history will unfold, an event I and many others more intelligent and informed than myself thought would not, could not, happen. Reading an article about climate change yesterday evening I thought of a friend of mine — a good hearted spiritual leader committed to…
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Culture Renowned Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman Heard Echoes of World War II in Trump
Polish-born Jewish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has died in his home in England at age 91, the Washington Post reported today. Bauman lived in England since 1971 after he was driven out of Poland by a purge engineered by the communist Polish secret police. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Bauman was one…
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Community You Thought 2016 Was Bad? It’s Only Going To Get Worse.
Since some time in the early 1960s pop culture has ruled the western world. Beginning a few years ago, but picking up deadly speed in 2016, the architects of that culture, now in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, are dying, and it’s not going to slow down. 2017 is, aging and death being what they…
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Culture No, The Rockettes Shouldn’t Have To Perform at Trump’s Inauguration — Jewish Tradition Says So
The Rockettes will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, though not without some performers being very unhappy about it. Time has reported that one expressed concern about being “involved in a dangerous political climate.” Another dancer, Phoebe Pearl, expressed her distress on Instagram: “I usually don’t use social media to make a political stand, but I…
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Culture Lupe Fiasco Doubles Down on Bigotry With Anti-Semitic Rant
Lupe Fiasco took the stage last night at Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium, only to lecture his fans at length and intensify his anti-Semitic rhetoric. In the Chicago M.C.’s first show since his Dec 12 release of the track “N.E.R.D.,” which featured the lyrics, “Artists getting robbed for their publishing by dirty Jewish execs who think it’s…
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Community A Trump Embassy Move Would Be Nothing To Celebrate
During his campaign, Trump promised that he would honor a longstanding American commitment and finally move the American embassy in Israel from it’s current home in Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem, where the seat of the Israeli government is located. For more than a decade, no foreign embassy has been located there, and the world…
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