Max Lightstone

MASc. Engineer. Jewish, Progressive, and interested in most things.

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@erising1916 You're right. The walk should be longer and have more food trucks.

[Richard Marceau @richardmarceau]

60,000 at @UJAFederation’s Walk For Israel in Toronto today.

Love, love, love seeing these good people standing up for the only democracy in the Middle East, which is under siege from obscurantist forces.

Nothing can replace Jewish pride.

No challenge is too big for Jews with the heads held high.

💪🇮🇱✡️

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

This is where we are at in Ireland apparently.

[David Fleischer @Fleischmarket]

This is an excellent point.
It's only been 6 weeks since the Senate of Canada released a detailed report with concrete recommendations on this exact topic. It's bizarre the Prime Minister wouldn't even mention it.

It's here, btw.
https://t.co/vVHZy2lYF2

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Carney has unveiled a new council to combat antisemitism in Canada. The lineup includes a former Liberal minister who is a Muslim, a DEI executive who is also Muslim, a progressive lawyer interested in social justice issues who represented pro-Palestinian encampment activists, an LGBT activist, and an Olympic speed skater.

Only one member is Jewish: Senator Marc Gold, has a long public record in Jewish communal and pro-Israel advocacy.

Seems like expertise in antisemitism was considered optional. If the goal was to reassure Jewish Canadians, this is a bizarre way to go about it.

https://t.co/SdnrHYuFVZ

[Artur Wilczynski @Arturmaks]

@Joe_Roberts01 Canadian Jews do not need asylum in the USA. We need the government of Canada to step up. We are Canadian.

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@IsraMum Bennett's plan seems robust!
https://t.co/4TM7pAYBe6

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@Semprini20 Maybe stop making Israel the boogeyman?
You're allowed to just not like 3rd party financial apps without randomly bringing Israel into it.

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@CanEmbIsrael When did the Canadian embassy move to Jerusalem?

I mean, I'm not complaining - it really should be in the capital.

But I _am_ confused.

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@MosheHazan6 @GraphCrimes These scales are pissing me off

[Inbar weiss @WeissInbar]

יום ראשון בבוקר זמן טוב לעדכן, החל מה1 ביוני תדירות הרכבת תל אביב ירושלים תהיה 3 רכבות בשעה במקום 2. ז״א כל 20 דקות.
חודש טוב ושבוע טוב

[Artur Wilczynski @Arturmaks]

@AlexNeve24 The campaign harassing Jewish schools & day camps through spurious CRA investigations is an attack on the viability of Jewish life in Canada. The fact this hate campaign is being amplified by former diplomats is beyond odious. Am embarrassed to have worked with these people.

[Michele Chabin @MicheleChabin1]

@sfrantzman You forgot the National Religious. They and their hesder yeshiva student-soldiers serve at a very high rate and have been injured or killed in large numbers. They are beyond angry at haredi draft dodgers.

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@IDIisrael @haaretzcom Also, pretty rich to say that the National Religious parties are aligned with the anti-draft Haredi parties when so is Likud, which is the party of the traditional non-religious, ie @sfrantzman's "middle Israel".
Per Haaretz, RZ & OY are actually more aligned with Hardal than DL

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

Blocked, so I'll have to quote reply:
https://t.co/gSOWKTJSlQ

The sources of the graphs were in the alt texts of the images, but are from @IDIisrael and @haaretzcom.

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@IDIisrael report: https://t.co/7I1DpM80Fk

@haaretzcom report: https://t.co/zOSDTKi8rn

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@sfrantzman Conveniently ignoring that the Modern orthodox/Dati Leumi community is serving at higher than proportional rates, and women's enlistment continues to grow

[Max Lightstone @LighthouseMax]

@CestuiQueTakes Alberta's LG considered it https://t.co/200vur3DMm

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

Goodness gracious. It is used in a pejorative way by those who see it as an outmoded institution, a nostalgic, sentimental attachment to a particular family. She wisely points to its virtues here, which have to do not with a family, but a long track record of stability for Canada.