Evil is an entity, person, place or thing that does not deserve compromise or negotiation. It must be destroyed. Dictionary.Reference.com describes it as “the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.” Generally people describe evildoers as those who are vicious and participate without conscience, inflicting pain and suffering on others. [...]
August 30, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News . Tags: evil, Iran, CJN, Canadian Jewish News, Avrum Rosensweig, Nazis, Kampucheans, Cambodians, Amalekites . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
By Avrum Rosensweig There is something particular about being Jewish. We celebrate what know other people can, such as the fact hockey is played in Metulla, Israel and nowhere else in the Middle East. Being Jewish means we are exclusively proud of Daf Yomi – a process whereby an individual studies one page of Talmud [...]
May 24, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, Jewish, Uncategorized . Tags: Avrum Rosensweig's articles, Canadian Jewish News, CJN, Jew, Jewish . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
One day on the way to work, I saw an old man stooped over. He was walking by a homeless man who sat on the ground. The old man’s back was hunched. He stared at the ground, seeing just enough in front of him so as not to crash into somebody, trip over the homeless [...]
May 1, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, anti-Semitism . Tags: anti-Semitism, Avrum's Writing, Canadian Jewish News, Jew, Jewish . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
Turning 50 and No Burial Plot I will be half a century old on April 27. 50! Am I my grandfather? Being 47 didn’t take much getting used to, and 48 walked in as if on a breeze. There was nothing terribly memorable about the onset of these ages. They were nondescript really, just like [...]
April 21, 2010
Categories: About Avrum, Canadian Jewish News . Tags: 50, Aging, Avrum Canadian Jewish News, CJN, on being 50 . Author: avrum . Comments: 5 Comments
Many of my contemporaries are or have become empty nesters of late. I wrote this fictional piece in their honour. _________________________________________________________________________ For 25 years, I hadn’t known there were creaks in our home. The deafening noise of children playing and kids growing masked them. I am an empty nester and I am lost. Recently my [...]
April 7, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, family . Tags: Canadian Jewish News, CJN, empty nesters . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
It’s that time again. Israeli Apartheid Week has come and gone. The Swedes are acting out, and anti-Semitism quietly operates under slimy rocks, keeping a low profile, until bam, “Gaza” happens again. The danger is there. Do we see it? Are we acting? Diaspora and Israeli Jewry make world-class software, hardware and medical equipment. We [...]
April 4, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, anti-Semitism . Tags: anti-Semitism, Canadian Jewish News, CJN, Diaspora, Gaza, Israel, Israel Apartheid Week, Jewish, Jewry, Jews . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
My Canadian Jewish News Article for Pesach 2010 The seder was about to begin. The chandelier on the ceiling in the dining room illuminated the table and its finery. A bulbous white pillow had been placed on my father’s armchair, waiting to be creased by his recline, and sweet and tearing Pesach smells intertwined with [...]
March 24, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, Jewish . Tags: charoset, Fish heads, Passover, Passover plate, Pesach, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Tarphon . Author: avrum . Comments: 2 Comments
What is your take on this article? Do you have hope toward a better world? Are you working toward it? What are you doing? If not, why not? _________________________________________________________________________ Fortunately, a bubble can only burst once. Or can it? I blew up a balloon for my son, Noah River. It was long and stringy, the type [...]
February 25, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, Humanity . Tags: balloons, China, Congo, Darfur, Holocaust, Idi Amin, Liberia, Pol Pot, Purim . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
“The reason one writes isn’t the fact that he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald When I write, there are times the screen seems to just looks back at me, as dumfounded and blank as I am. Other times, I have an idea, generally one I [...]
January 5, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News . Tags: anti-Semitism, Avrum Rosensweig, Canadian Jewish News, CJN, Israel, Toronto . Author: avrum . Comments: 2 Comments
AVRUM'S BLOG is hosted and authored by me, Avrum Rosensweig, the founder and president of Ve'ahavta: The Canadian Jewish Humanitarian & Relief Committee. I am also a writer, artist and a father.
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