So you thought you had had reached OLD AGE. Yes ,you thought that short term memory loss was a sign, giving up singles in tennis pointed it out, everybody was so nice to the old man who was so polite to all. BULL SHIT. Then I got a stroke. Yes I said a stroke. I woke Continue Reading
1. A SHOT OF WHISKEY In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents so did a glass of whiskey. If a cow-hand was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. 2. THE WHOLE NINE YARDS American fighter planes in WW2 had Continue Reading
This article is adapted from a speech to the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. *** Last autumn was the Balfour Declaration’s hundredth birthday. This month marks a hundred years since Britain’s General Allenby completed his World War I conquest of Palestine and Syria. These centenaries relate to the most important–the most basic–argument Continue Reading
On October the second 2018 in the Jackman building of the University of Toronto I attended a lecture by Professor Lillian Weissberg of the University of Pennsylvania on the topic “At Court; Holocaust Testimonies and The Problem of Witnesses;” It was not a long lecture and the main topic was how the witnesses were given a tough Continue Reading
ANTISEMITISM AS DEFINED BY THE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ASSOCIATION. Contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to: + Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of 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