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
https://ca.hellomagazine.com/royalty/02019111453683/sophie-countess-of-wessex-toronto-western-hospital This past Thursday Sophie, Duchess of Wessex (married to the Queen’s youngest son Edward – thank goodness it wasn’t Andrew – he’s in a spot of hot tea. Dad decided not to mention him to the Duchess – good choice dad) made a visit to Toronto Western Hospital stroke unit to see Murray (she Continue Reading
Picasso’s painting “Dora Maar au Chat” was sold by Sotheby’s at an auction in 2006 in New York for ( hold your breath) $96,216,000. I am willing to part with my Rubin painting for only $1,000,000. It now hangs in my bedroom and I praise it in my mind daily. I call my painting “Kathy Continue Reading
There is a price to pay for everything and the ability of mistaken, dishonest, unscrupulous, so called pharmaceutical researchers and companies to disseminate advice to the public cheaply , by the internet or through your doctor is becoming a problem. It is becoming a danger to all our lives. I am exaggerating a bit. Not Continue Reading
e I guess this entry in my blog is about myself and Bianca Andreescu who made my tennis dream come true. I started playing tennis in the early 1940s at Bickford Park in the Harbord and Grace Street area of Toronto, and to be honest my interest was in the pretty girls playing there more 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