Bernie Farber
By Bernie Farber
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Life In Boca’s Retirement Communities, Trump Is Dividing Neighbors
A number of years ago I wrote about how we spend part of our brutal Canadian winter in what some call “the other land of our people” and others humorously refer to as “ heaven’s waiting room.” Yes, Boca Raton. At that time I was merely a visitor to Boca, able to watch the goings…
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Life Let’s Bring Back “Never Again!”
In Jewish teachings we learn, “from generation unto generation we shall remember.” We Jews are blessed with a long memory. It is precisely our memory that today acts as the “canary in the mine” against the evil of mankind. It is this memory that has led Jews and Jewish organizations to be that canary in…
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Opinion Avoid Repeat of Durban Hate-Fest By Convening an Alternate Summit
The World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 was one of the most hate-filled, antisemitic, anti-Israel gatherings in recent memory. A follow-up conference has now been scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva. Though officially known as the Durban Review Conference, it’s been dubbed “Durban II,” and for good reason — it…
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