Human beings are conformists by nature. If everyone else is caroling, we feel we should be caroling too.
Camp Kadimah, Talmud Torah and the Hadassah bazaar figure prominently in former Hamiltonian Patrick Welkovics’ memories of the Delaware Avenue JCC.
Since this is the High Holiday issue of the Hamilton Jewish News I wanted to reach out to my former Jewish communities with a request for help.
Poet Heinrich Heine called the Bible the portable homeland of the Jewish people. Today, the portable homeland of the isolated individual is the smartphone.
Nobody at Beth Jacob Synagogue knew about the Datsun sports car or the Volvos that he owned, when they were so rare that owners waved at each other on the streets. His Bene Israel community in Toronto didn’t know he played the bongos and the wood flute.
