by Diane Bederman | May 19, 2019 | Ethics, Religion / Spirituality
My talk at Adas Israel in Hamilton, sponsored by Never Again Hamilton was not recorded. I was asked to share my talk. I am going to talk about the relationship Muslims and Jews have toward Progressives. Many Christians behave like the Jews. The idea for this...
by Diane Bederman | May 17, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
“In 2018, a study by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the Community Security Trust revealed that anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes were two to four times higher among Muslims than the population in general…Certainly, there’s...
by Diane Bederman | May 13, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
Hitler and the Grand Mufti meeting in 1941 Each year Muslims mourn the Nakba. The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, al-Nakbah, literally “disaster”, “catastrophe”, or “cataclysm”, observed...
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...
