Jan 2, 2017 | Religion / Spirituality
I have been following the response to Obama’s abstention to UN Resolution 2334 (the umpteenth resolution against Israel while the world burns) and the speech made by John Kerry. The EU lauds Kerry’s speech. So, too do many on the media including the Globe and Mail in...
Dec 25, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
"Jacob is the man who discovers that he is not alone, who encounters angels." Photograph: Barry Wetcher/AP In my previous life I worked for a national movie magazine.Every once in a while I find a movie I want to share. Collateral Beauty,...
Dec 21, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
There has been a heated discussion on Facebook regarding Barry Shaw, Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, making a shidach with Calev Myers and the Jerusalem Institute for Justice(JIJ) and it became nasty. I wrote that I...
Dec 4, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
And who by fire, who by water, Who in the sunshine, who in the night time, Who by high ordeal, who by common trial, Who in your merry merry month of may, Who by very slow decay, And who shall I say is calling? And God created a new worldview, a revolutionary...
Sep 25, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
We are a stiff-necked people. It is our greatest weakness, but it is also our greatest strength. Rabbi Yitzhak Nissenbaum, who lived and died in the Warsaw Ghetto, taught ,“Almighty God, looks upon this people with favor, because what is now their greatest vice will...
Apr 1, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
I recently met a young man who lives outside Toronto, Canada, whose family originally came from Pakistan. I was taken by a tattoo on his arm-from his shoulder to his wrist. I asked him about it and he told me that it depicts the story of his maternal...
