Articles & Columns
This is a selection of articles and columns that Robert Sarner has written for newspapers and magazines in various countries. Covering a wide gamut of topics, they are presented here chronologically, starting with the most recent.
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Israelis in Paris give gritty, alternative art tours of the city of love
Painting the town red, these street walkers don’t shy away from the under belly of the Parisian urban art scene By ROBERT SARNER, The Times of Israel, March 2, 2019… Read more
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Israeli expats in Canada staff a Hebrew suicide hotline to serve their homeland
The ERAN crisis hotline has a branch in Toronto where trained volunteers field anguished calls from Israelis in the lonely Middle East night By ROBERT SARNER, The Times of Israel,… Read more
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Meet the Israeli woman who’s championing French pastry in Paris
Sharon Heinrich in Paris, across from the Eiffel Tower. (Eyal Yassky-Weiss) Patisserie maven Sharon Heinrich is carving out a sweet niche in the City of Love, giving Hebrew tours to… Read more
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At Paris conference, expat Israelis strategize how to empower growing ‘diaspora’
With up to 1 million Israeli citizens now residing outside the Jewish state, members of the Global Israeli Leadership demand a place at the table in local communities and at… Read more
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Journalist investigates wholesale denial of pivotal anti-semitic murder in Paris
French writer Noémie Halioua’s book, ‘L’affaire Sarah Halimi,’ dives into the vicious homicide of a Jewish woman that French authorities resisted calling a hate crime By ROBERT SARNER, The Times… Read more
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Controversial Jewish Analyst Alain Finkielkraut Is Worried For France’s Future
Leading French scholar says Jews in dire straits and government’s failure to integrate massive wave of Muslim immigration is to blame — a ‘diabolical juncture’ By ROBERT SARNER, The Times… Read more
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Leonard Cohen turned this Montreal francophone into a champion of Jewish culture
Raised Catholic, scholar and writer Chantal Ringuet learned Yiddish in order to make her city’s rich heritage available to fellow French Canadians By ROBERT SARNER, The Times of Israel, July… Read more
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Canada’s first female Hasidic politician may be bound for parliament
Trilingual Montreal borough councilor Mindy Pollak is courted by at least one federal party as a potential candidate in the next national election By ROBERT SARNER, The Times of Israel,… Read more
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Canada’s oldest synagogue celebrates 250 years of Jewish life in Montreal
With a festive May 10 gala, Quebecois Jews, still 90,000 strong, boast a diversity nearly unheard of in any other community By ROBERT SARNER, The Times of Israel, May 9,… Read more
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