My husband Stuart and I both grew up in homes where community service and philanthropy were given high priority. Stuart's parents, Nina and Harry Cohen were leaders in the Cape Breton community and my parents, Olga and Arthur Pascal were part of the top leadership in Montreal.
We moved to T…
May’s parents, Sam and Manya Lipshitz established an endowment at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. After their deaths we became the trustees of this fund. As such, we wanted to keep their legacy alive - their legacy of support and leadership towards promoting Yiddish language, Jew…
My father, Ben Clodman’s life wasn’t all that unusual or remarkable. Fortunately, he did not live through the Holocaust or survive other dire circumstances. My dad was born in Toronto to Russian immigrants, the fourth of six children. He was raised by non-observant parents to the extent …
My parents, Helen (Rosen) and Gordon Clarfield z”l met in 1951, and were engaged three weeks later. They married in Toronto on June 8th, 1952, then lived, and loved, together for 41 years, until my mother passed away in 1993. My dad kept on loving her until he too passed away, in June 2004…
Before World War II, Chmielnik, Poland, flourished with Jewish life. The city had 10,000 Jews, which represented eighty percent of the city’s total population. It was home to libraries, newspapers, trades, businesses, yeshivas and synagogues. The value system of the Jewish community was ce…
