Tonight I saw a woman starring at me. She concealed her look from time-to-time, sometimes was blatantly open about it, and other times combined a Mona Lisa smile with it – the like that you don’t know if it’s real or not (perhaps it is all in my ego). I so enjoyed being looked at. [...]
Donate to Avrum’s Blog
AVRUM’S BLOG
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.
AVRUM'S BLOG is here to create a community where people can express wondrous ideas, thoughts, stories and comments. I can do the same.
At AVRUM'S BLOG people can challenge one another, debate and schmooze about humanitarian issues, peace, war, Israel, the Jewish people, slices of life and perceptions.
Please contribute thoughtfully. We are in charge of our world. Let's give it purpose through beautiful, decent, intelligent, raw and intuitive talk and interaction.
B'shalom, Avrum (avrum@veahavta.org)
What do you Feel Upon Ghadafi’s Death?
Are you happy that the Lybian dictator, henchman really, is dead? It seemed like he was attacked, beaten and brutally murdered. Do you think that’s okay? Were you happy to hear it? Did you fnd yourself watching the video footage over and over? Although the news called the pictures gruesome did you just watch it over and over. If you answered [...]
Question: Cottage today; Famine today….how much should I suffer?
I walk around, nowadays, in my home ofToronto, Canada feeling great amount of bliss. Part of that has to do with an internal feeling of contentment, of which I am delighted. My personal struggle to arrive at this juncture has been an arduous one. But now that I’m ‘here’ I realize how peaceful it is [...]
Question: Companies during the Holocaust
What if a company was cruel toward Jews and other peoples during the Second World War and they never apologized or try to make it better? What if? Should we be buying from them? Should they not recognize their past and attempt to become ‘good’? Would you buy from them?
Question
What would you do if you found yourself a cashier at 7-11 in a small town in the mid-west? That’s it. That’s what you would be doing with your life. How would you adjust/survive?
Questions of the Day: Would you Rather be Someone Else?
1. Did you miss your boat? If you had life to live life again would you do it much differently? Vaguely differently? The same? 2. Are you mostly proud your life so much so that you have little to hide from your children, family, friends? 3. Do you like yourself, and how much? Is there [...]
Question: Finding a Synagogue Church Mosque
What do you look for in a synagogue/church/mosque (SCM)? I am looking for one (a synagogue, otherwise known as a shul; sometimes called a shteibel, when it’s little, perhaps a room in a home) that my son and I can attend and its not easy. Our criteria are: a) A place for him to run around [...]
Question of the Day
The inner life. How many have you seen? By this I mean have there been many peoples in your life who have invited you into their real inner life – where the earthquakes blend with the manna falling? How about your own inner life. How well have you touched it; chatted with it; know it? [...]
Question of the Moment
Would you prefer living in a world where fantasies come true?
Question for the Day
Do you agree? If not for Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionst Judaism many many Jews would be completely uninterested in Judaism, and often leaven Judaism entirely. Your thoughts?
