You would be forgiven, on first meeting Beverley Burdeyney, for feeling you had just been confronted by a force of nature. Her zest for life, and for cherishing each day she is given, fills any room she occupies.
Beverley, by her own account, has “a nose for finding solutions,” and beca…
I come from a small Jewish community in New Brunswick where we didn't have an organized structure for charity, but every year at Rosh Hashanah, the Rabbi had a fund people could contribute to for those less fortunate. I also saw the roots of Jewish education in our home. My mother started a …
I was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1939, and grew up in this small Maritime town with only 60 other Jewish families. The absence of a Jewish day school emphasized the importance of institutions like Camp Kadimah, Young Judaea, Habonim, Hadassah and the Sgoolai Israel Synagogue. Thes…
My story begins many years ago when I was a child. My parents, Al G. and Shirley Brown, have always been philanthropic. Through their actions I have truly understood the meaning of tzedakah. On a regular basis, there was a knock on the door of my parents' house and men with white beards, wea…
It's not about us. It's about our children.
It's not about the past, or even the present. It's about the future.
Sarah Edite Brown, our elder daughter, was born July 9, 1989. Named after her Zaidy Sam Segal's sister Sarah, who perished in the Holocaust, and her Zaidy Al G. Brown's sister E…
