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February 27, 2015

Meet Emerson Swift Mahon: Canada’s First Black Jew

Emerson Swift Mahon, born a Christian, left his native Grenada for Canada in 1912 in search of higher education and harboring a deeply-felt interest in Judaism. Two years later, he enlisted in the Canadian army to fight in World War I, and there met a Jewish chaplain named Herman Abramowitz. Eiran Harris writes:

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February 27, 2015

  1. Why the White House Is Manufacturing a Crisis in Relations with Israel

  2. Could the Current Disorder in the Middle East Lead to Greater Stability?

  3. Undoing a Feminist Misreading of the Book of Esther

  4. Meet Emerson Swift Mahon: Canada’s First Black Jew

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