Dec 2, 2019 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
I think it is time to have pity, as they say in Yiddish, rachmunas, for Palestinians. Maybe “A Day of Pity.” Think about it. They are from an honour/shame culture that revolves around vengeance. What greater embarrassment for them...
Nov 29, 2019 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
7 billion people: 2 billion Catholics/Christians: 2 billion Muslims:14 million Jews Antisemitism had been quiet for decades after the Shoah, Holocaust. All that sturm and drang, all that hand wringing and chest beating, what have we done to the Jews!...
Nov 22, 2019 | Ethics, News, Politics
When Justin Trudeau was elected PM of Canada in 2015 he declared: “To this country’s friends all around the world, many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world… We’re back.” I would ask, back where? The recently...
Nov 21, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
There are constant attacks on Jews on campuses all over the world. They come from societies and organizations affiliated with BDS. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure...
Nov 17, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
We are at another crossroads. We, in America and Canada in particular. In our desire to bring equality to all, we threw out the traditional family. The family, where one parent, usually the mother, stayed home to raise the children with the values of that family,...
Nov 11, 2019 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Who said: “Our battle with World Jewry is a question of life and death. It is a battle between two conflicting faiths, each of which can exist only on the ruins of the other.” What would the media of today have said in the 1930’s when Hitler was sharing his views of...