Over the years, I’ve learned not to take things personally. I have been in the public eye for most of my life and to be honest, at the beginning I took everything to heart. I […]

A few days after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, I was sitting in a café with my mentor, Dan Nimrod z’l. Dan, at the time, was an author and owner of the […]

Today’s blog was going to be about how tonight marks the 21st anniversary of The Howie Silbiger Show, but that seems irrelevant today. Israel advocate, talk show host and friend Ari Fuld was murdered today […]

For years I sat through the Canadian national anthem. I did so as a protest of Canada’s dismal record of voting against Israel at the United Nations. My go to argument at the time was […]

1988 was 43 years after the end of the war. Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was on trial, President Ronald Reagan announced the intention to build a National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, British Holocaust Denier […]

Ed Note: This essay was written by Howie Silbiger just after the Columbine School Massacre in 1999. It is very sad that in 2018 it is still relevant. I could have been a school shooter. […]

Every year around this time, I write a speech that I would give at a graduation. In the 20 years I have been doing this exercise, I have never been invited to speak at a […]

Although I had nothing to do with the protest at Concordia and was merely there to cover it for Montreal Jewish News, I am horrified by how many Jews and Jewish organizations have condemned the […]

In Friday’s Journal de Montreal, while ruminating on the latest Muslim violence at Concordia, a bomb threat that shut down the university for a day, columnist Lise Ravery asked why I didn’t report an incident […]

A mosque was shot up in Quebec city and multiple people were killed and injured. The attack happened the same weekend that the American President imposed a temporary hold on people travelling to the States […]