Jewish Community

Without the Jews, we’d see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings … we’d think with a different mind, interpret all our experiences differently. Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.

Is He Truly A Prime MInister

I know that it’s somewhat abstract but how would you feel when The Washington Post catered to its sophisticated readers with this heading: “Netanyahu’s Faustian pact with the racist right is about saving his own skin…” Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.

An Essay from Puerto Rico

We’re in Puerto Rico, a place Barbara and I visited many years ago. Now in the evening of our lives we came one more time, taking an apartment for three weeks. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

A Book Worth Reading

Over the years, I’ve kept a lengthy page on the wall of my study to record the steady drop of the men women and children who participate in the United Church of Canada. As most of you know, it has declined each year since the late 1960s (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

The Strange Disgrace

There’s a book I intend to get, one with a title of real truth — The Tragedy of Stealing. The author, D. K. Olukoya -- a man quite distant and yet to be known -- made a brief comment in the inside cover. It was a comment that truly applies to the theft that shocked recent and countless customers of the Liquor Board of Ontario — LCBO. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)