The changes in society worldwide are being implemented at ever increased rates, and while not all of a revolutionary nature, certainly portend an unrecognizable future. Islam whether seen as a religion of peace and love or a religion to proselytize the entire world, is a major factor everywhere. While religion in the west is on Continue Reading
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