No Silence on Race is a movement born of the necessity for both racial equity and inclusivity within Canadian Jewish spaces.

While I realize there isn’t an overwhelming number of people who look like me within the tight-knit Jewish community, we exist and we’re not going away.

A painstakingly researched book by Black feminist, activist-writer Robyn Maynard debunks the myth of Canadian white benevolence and draws a straight line between past state-sanctioned injustices and current tensions.

Like most other Jewish kids growing up in Winnipeg’s north end in the 1940s and ’50s, Bill Mahon attended public school by day and cheder in the evenings, went to shul with his dad on Shabbat, had a bar mitzvah, went to St. John’s Tech for high school (where he was president of the student council) and hung out with his friends.