by Diane Bederman | Mar 29, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
I have not met Aviva Polonsky nor Sebastian Gorka nor the people at Chat. Aviva Polonsky, a teacher at TanenbaumCHAT and the President of the Federation of Teachers in Hebrew Schools in Toronto, accompanied 14 students to the AIPAC conference. On March...
by Diane Bederman | Mar 26, 2019 | Ethics, Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks wrote:”non-Jews respect Jews who respect Judaism. They are embarrassed by Jews who are embarrassed by Judaism. Never be ambivalent about who and what you are.” I have spent years trying to understand why Jews join forces with those who call...
by Diane Bederman | Mar 24, 2019 | Ethics
Rabbi Sacks wrote “The road to from slavery to freedom is as long or short as it takes for people to develop the habits of responsibility for their children and their children’s children.” Our children have been enslaved in the 21st century. Parents have abdicated...
by Diane Bederman | Mar 18, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
As has been said,without adherence to rules we face suspicion, then friction, then disruption of the social order…and finally, anarchy or dictatorship. ~CFTRL I attended the All-Day National Teach-In by a group called the Canadians for the Rule of...
by Diane Bederman | Mar 16, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
The world witnessed a horrible attack on two Mosques in New Zealand on Friday, March 15, 2019. Friday, their holy day. It was an act of hate perpetrated by a white supremacist. People around the world, of all faiths and no faith, shared their sympathy....
by Diane Bederman | Mar 7, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
A photo in the Winter 2019 edition of Your Ward News (Screenshot) Your Ward News, Aboriginal owned and operated since 2007, referring to itself as world’s largest pro-Christian publication, was cited for hate speech against women and Jews,...
