As a Canadian-born Jew in his 89th year, the issue of anti-Semitism has been for me both a fascination and a horror. How can a mere seventeen 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 East Continue Reading
When you love your wife more now than when you married her. When a wet dream means that you knocked over a glass of water from your night table. When you go from the kitchen to the bed-room and you forgot why. When you talk nonsense and young people are respectful, not critical. When people who Continue Reading
It had always been my contention that if only all the countries in the world became functioning democracies, wars, violence and turmoil would become events of the past. Winston Churchill in a speech many years ago said that democracy was a terrible system, but the best that man has been able to devise. In recent 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
`This article was written by Yair Lapid, an Israeli publicist in a magazine called Erika. It is titled the “Mystery of Hate” and the reason I include it in my blog is that it mirrors my thoughts on “Jew Hate” I added my piece at the end. Hundreds of years of fighting, six and a Continue Reading
I Hope you notice that the word ETHICAL is in quotation marks There is a perception with the public that the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry, PMI, (all companies, trade name and generic), is essentially different from other industries because they are in the health care field and produce medicines. This leads the public to believe that Continue Reading