My first personal encounter with aboriginal people came when we opened a drug store in Sudbury in the 1960’s. I was used to getting requests for rubbing alcohol from the poor in Toronto. It was a cheap way to get drunk after the liquid was distilled. In Sudbury the request usually came from natives. I Continue Reading
An article by Edwin Black, a New York Times bestselling author. When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1,2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely a commemoration of the ghastly 1941 Arab-Nazi pogrom in Baghdad that killed and injured hundreds of Iraqi Jews. Continue Reading
The CONTRADICTIONS inherent in anti-Semitism 1. Political Liberals denounce the Jews as reactionaries but political Conservatives denounce them as a threat to stability. 2. Very rich people find the Jews a threat to their money and property, but poor people have credited them with untold riches by which they crush and control them. 3. Atheists Continue Reading
I resent the fact that North-American human rights organization imply that racism is more prominent in Canada and the United States. If it is true, and I am not sure that it is, I would credit it to the fact that there are no other countries in the world that allow immigrants of all religions, Continue Reading
So, you had your 5th anniversary and got an Orchid plant from your in-laws. It was beautiful and lasted maybe a month to a month and a half, and then the petals on the flowers slowly fell off. You faithfully watered but to no avail. The flowers were gone. Fear not, I learned the answer Continue Reading
As a Canadian Jew supporting the existence of a Jewish state, I have always been bothered by the feeling that in reality, over the long term, the Jewish Israelis want to take over the Palestinian areas and possibly expel them. I have Jewish friends in Canada who harbour those thoughts. Why not? It is quite Continue Reading