Shawna Cohen is a freelance writer and editor based in Toronto. “Take your husband’s name,” my mother – who had me reading Gloria Steinem at age 12 – told me when I got engaged in 2002. “It’s safer.” Cohen clearly identifies me as Jewish. My husband’s last name, Shields, reads more British than anything else. I kept my surname, along with my mother’s awareness that Jews are never quite safe, not even in the Western world. My mother is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. My late grandparents immigrated from Europe to Canada after the war and formed a business, a...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
