Our mother Karen was a beacon of love and inspiration to all. She was an educator by profession—a drama teacher to be more precise—and her desire to make any life experience a teachable moment spilled over into so much of what she did.
She believed in exposing us to new things, explorin…
While Toronto was not both of our birthplaces, we are so fortunate that, today, it is home to both of us and our two boys, Evan and Seth. Adina was born in Glasgow, Scotland (her mother’s birthplace), but came to Canada when she was a couple of weeks old. Jeff was born and raised in Toront…
My parents, Manny and Esther Wrock, were among the generation of ‘greeners’ – newcomers to Canada, majority of whom survived the Holocaust. They arrived in a new country, with a heavy burden: they had no immediate surviving relatives, they were depleted of anything of value and they bo…
Our parents raised us in a home that exemplified values of family, community and giving. Some of our earliest memories included traditions of family time, particularly celebrating Jewish holidays together with extended family, sharing Friday night dinners and attending synagogue for Jewish h…
My paternal grandparents were the sole survivors of their immediate families after the war, and as an adult, I recognized that without the support of the Jewish community that took them in when they first arrived in Canada, they would have never achieved the level of comfort they did in Cana…
