As a Canadian-born Jew in his 80th year, the issue of anti-Semitism has been for me both a fascination and a horror. How can a mere se venteen million people, spread throughout the world over such an extended period of time, elicit so much antagonism and hatred? Why have Jews in Europe and the Middle Continue Reading
The United Nations has been a factor in the history of nations since the end of the second world war and even though its success has been more than limited, nations are proud to say they belong. It was to be sort of an area in which nations could act out of altruistic motives and Continue Reading
In an article written on December 9, 2008 under the heading “No borders exist for Racism, Sexism and Religious Intolerance” I described the human condition as encompassing the need for power, self-interest, hypocrisy and deceit. The recent incident involving the untimely death of Robert Dziekanski after being tasered by four R.C.M.P. officers in the Vancouver Continue Reading
I have just finished reading a most amazing book-ISRAEL DENIAL by Cary Nelson . It is about Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaigns of some universities against the Jewish State. See what world famous authors have to say. Cary Nelson is a professor at the University of Illinois. Paul Berman, author of the Flight of Continue Reading
Modest changes are always part of human existence. But in the past 25 years when it comes to communication the changes are not modest, they are earth-shaking. Of course I am referring to the use of the computer and the cell-phone and the potential rip-offs with your credit cards. The computer is responsible for the Continue Reading
Why not? If you read this blog you cannot fail to observe how often I write about anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. So why am I, in a perverse way, pleased with this charge. Because it makes Jews just like all others, which is the message that I try to convey to the world. Jews at one Continue Reading