Coming from a large, loving and close extended family is amazing. It’s great to be a part of this family and I recognize and appreciate how lucky I am.
I grew up in Toronto; my wife Amy grew up in New York- and we both come from “traditional” Jewish homes where our parents supported u…
We built our lives together in Montreal and recently moved to Toronto to be closer to our family. We have been blessed with four children and 10 grandchildren. Community and philanthropy have always been guiding principles in our lives. We both began to volunteer and fundraise as young adult…
What does it really mean to live “Jewishly”? To feel Jewish, and to find a path to Jewish life?
In our family, there are many answers to this question.
Roy grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, in a Reform Jewish household. Long standing members of the Reform Temple, their observance was in …
For us, the surrounding Jewish community has always been like family; meaning, we help out however we can.
The Toronto Jewish community was not our initial family. We started our lives in the United States; Brenda in New York and Ed in Macon, Georgia. Ed’s maternal lineage, in fact, dates…
We think of our philanthropy as an evolutionary process. This means that we will never reach our end point but, rather, we will continue to discover new and exciting ways to participate in the important and rewarding act of giving. And our family’s fund with the Jewish Foundation will ensu…
