Our dad, Samuel Hershenhorn, was known far and wide in the Toronto Jewish community as “Sam, the world’s greatest walker.” It was a name he coined himself and he was very proud of it, since it was the fundraising signature of an assiduous campaigner for our community, who took his resp…
I owe much of who I am today to my parents. This sounds obvious but I truly have my parents to thank for shaping me from a young age until this very day.
My mother, Flo, was born in Bombay, India and my father, Michael, was born in Romania. They had little in common. She came from a very la…
I was fortunate to be raised in a traditional Jewish household that included my grandparents, who were quite observant. My family’s connection to B’nai Brith, Beth Shalom and Pride of Israel synagogues set an example of community involvement for me from the time I was very young.
My own…
I like to tell people I was made in Morocco and assembled in Canada. My parents, Robert and Celia Berdugo, were very observant Sephardic newcomers to Canada in 1964. When I was born the following year, Sephardim were not yet particularly well-received in the established Ashkenazic community …
We were fortunate to grow up in this beautiful Toronto community with a strong Jewish upbringing. Both of our families were always very involved in many aspects of Jewish Toronto, just as their parents had been before them. Through their active involvement, we were taught the importance of…
