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Guest Author: My ‘kosher’ shoes By Miriam Porter
Tuesday, 08 March 2005 (Canadian Jewish News) I have been shopping for a pair of cute black running shoes in a size eight for weeks! You know, the ones with mesh and Velcro that everyone is wearing but me? I eagerly held a dozen pair in my hands. My favourites showed off a hot pink [...]
May 22, 2010
Categories: Uncategorized, Visiting Authors . Tags: Animal Rights, Guest Author, Kosher, Miriam Porter, Shoes . Author: avrum . Comments: 1 Comment
Supporting Israel =Supporting the World
(great piece. Makes sense. Your thoughts?) Speech by Spanish Activist Pilar Rahola: The Struggle of Israel is the Struggle of the World April 27, 2010 – 1:41 pm Pilar Rahola is a Spanish politician, journalist and activist. Her articles are published in Spain and throughout some of the most important newspapers in Latin America. Here [...]
May 6, 2010
Categories: Israel, Uncategorized, Visiting Authors . Tags: Israel, Palestinians, Peace in the Middle East, Pilar Rahola . Author: avrum . Comments: 3 Comments
Guest Author: Justice Remanded by Joan Ruzsa
There is a public perception that people who are in jail “deserve” to be there, because they have committed crimes. While the idea that anyone deserves to be caged is problematic for many reasons, one of the most important things to remember is that approximately 6 out of 10 people in provincial/territorial custody in Canada [...]
March 22, 2010
Categories: Visiting Authors . Tags: Aboriginal, Canada, jail . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
A Guest Author’s Point
You know the kind of shame that starts with a dull throb, like a toothache, and then sends heat radiating through your body like a sudden fever, and finally attains its full force with a sharp, breath-taking sucker-punch to the gut? Yeah, me too. – Joan Ruzsa
March 1, 2010
Categories: Visiting Authors . Tags: Joan Ruzsa, shame . Author: avrum . Comments: 2 Comments
It’s the Journey not the Destination by Guest Author, Joan Ruzsa
I was raised a Godless heathen. OK, OK, I’m being dramatic for effect, but I think it would be accurate to say that I was brought up in a fairly irreligious household. I am technically a Christian, and my grandparents were all quite religious Protestants, but my parents live pretty secular lives. Although they were [...]
December 5, 2009
Categories: Religion, Seriously, Visiting Authors . Tags: Avrum Rosensweig, Christianity, Heathen, Joan Ruzsa, Judaism . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
Memories of her Sukhah from Judy – Guest Author
I have had some experience of course in many a sukkah…..mainly when I was younger and then many years later as a single adult. When I was younger in kindergarden, through to grade six, we would be marched out by class to spend an hour or so in the schools Sukkah. It was very large [...]
September 17, 2009
Categories: Jewish, Visiting Authors . Tags: Sukhah, Sukhot . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
Amrita (R.I.P.) and Terri: A Woman and Her Cat…a love story!
Welcome to Terri, AVRUM’S BLOG newest guest author. Terri is a colleague at Ve’ahavta and a huge cat lover and activist. Nice job Terri. I’m sorry about your loss. _______________________________________________________________________ When I lost my cat, Amrita, you had asked me to write a small article about her, and though I had meant to, it’s been [...]
September 2, 2009
Categories: animals, Visiting Authors . . Author: avrum . Comments: 2 Comments
Guest Writer, Joan Ruzsa Loves Cottage
This is a beautiful piece written by Joan Ruzsa, a regular guest writer for AVRUM’S BLOG, on her love of her family cottage. What a wonderful piece to read. One gets the sense they are there with her and experiencing the beauty and brilliance of nature, her childhood and her womanhood in the woods of [...]
August 5, 2009
Categories: Visiting Authors . Tags: Esso Station, Nobel, Tim Horton . Author: avrum . Comments: 3 Comments
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. – Lao Tzu
This inventive piece was written by Joan Ruzsa, a regular contributer to AVRUM’S BLOG. Joan is the director of Ritttenhouse non-profit. She councils (hardened) prisoners, and helps inviduals who are out of jail, with a better new life. In this article Joan talks about how poisonous violence is in her eyes. She gives us a [...]
July 8, 2009
Categories: The Dead Man Walking Series, Visiting Authors . . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
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