If Black Lives really mattered…

Jul 19, 2020 | News, Politics

  In the latter half of the 20th century there was a newsman from Buffalo, New York, Irv Weinstein, who ended his newscast with “It’s 11 o’clock, Do you know where your children are?” Perhaps we need to amend that to “Do you know where your children are most of...

“Jews are our dogs” say Muslims in Canada

Jul 8, 2020 | News

  How is this for a rallying cry: “Jews are our dogs”? Canada, are you OK with this? I have to assume so because no one said a word when predominantly Muslim students shared that statement, July 4 in Mississauga, Ontario at Celebration Square at the “Mississauga...

Antisemitism Kills

Jan 25, 2020 | News, Politics, Religion / Spirituality

    This is the talk I gave at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue in Toronto January 23, 2020 This week we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. What did we learn? We learned that antisemitism kills. During Roman times Jews made...

Yad Vashem Library Includes The Serpent and the Red Thread

Jan 8, 2020 | News

Antisemitism kills. Mantua Books is pleased to announce that Diane Weber Bederman’s The Serpent and the Red Thread has been selected as part of the collection of the Yad Vashem Library in Jerusalem. Yad Vashem is the leading museum of the Holocaust. For further...