Some Great Charities Worth Donating To

By now many of you know me as that opinionated, unapologetic, Jewish activist. The son of Holocaust survivors. In fact I attribute my activism to my mother who was also a strong minded, Jewish activist in her own right. At a young age she taught me about antisemitism and even communism. In simple lessons that even a child could understand. The beauty of the minds of children is that they lack guile. At a young age they have no bias and demand simple and straight forward answers. I'm not saying that they can't be fooled or brainwashed, they obviously can. But at a young age, schooled by the right people they can have important concepts, instilled into them that can last for life. 

The Holocaust was and remains a constant life long history lesson. A brutal one that so far has not been lost on me. I have managed to ignore the many distractions that are thrown at all of us, constantly and incessantly. I continue to study it even now (hint: I'm no longer a spring chicken/rooster). So when I hear about Holocaust survivors who are still with us today and living in poverty in my own city (Toronto), I get angry. Very angry. 

How can this be that in 2025 in this wealthy, democratic, western metropolis, Jews who miraculously survived the worst nightmare on earth, are suffering now? They need a place to live, food, medicine, care, attention and love. The Holocaust that took six million Jews from us and tortured millions of other survivors should always remain in our minds. That being the case, the welfare of any survivors living today also needs to be pushed to the highest priority. It's a blight on us all for allowing even one survivor to live in poverty today and being isolated from society. 

So here's the good news. In Toronto, there is a Canadian designated charity (ie. if you donate to them, you will get a legitimate tax receipt) called:

Jewish Family and Child Service

By the name, you can tell that they do all sorts family related work including: looking into child & women abuse, adoption, camps, financial aid, mental health counselling, hospice and on and on. Please checkout their website on the above link. 

One of the very important services that caught my attention was Holocaust Survivor Emergency Funding. I met one of the staff who told me the following facts:

1. There are close to 4000 Survivors living in the GTA (greater Toronto area) of which 1/4 of them are living in poverty

2. They receive assistance through community agencies including JF&CS.

3. JF&CS helps over 900 survivors with emergency medical and dental needs not covered by OHIP - including hearing aids, glasses, incontinent supplies and more  

4. They also provide gift cards to our Survivor clients which offers them the freedom to purchase what they need.

5. All of their services are carried out through the lens of dignity ensuring they can live their final days with the greatest amount of comfort and dignity.

Please consider donated to them and/or volunteering for them. 

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Another long time, favourite charities of mine is One Family Fund.

A dear friend of mine, Toby Rosner,  is the Canadian director so I know quite a lot about it. One Family specializes in helping Israeli victims of terror. After Oct 7, 2023, their  services are in great demand. The help they offer comes in various ways. I urge you to check out their website in the link above and consider a tax deductible donation. 

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My daughter, Melanie Kushner works for another fabulous charity called Save A Child's Heart. 

They have a team of doctors and other medical professionals (mostly Israelis) who operate mostly on third world children who are in dire need of cardiac surgery. Nothing will make you feel better than knowing that you helped to save a child. Please consider donating to this wonderful, life giving, charity.

Farewell to the Most Pathetic US President

I was struggling to find the best adjective to describe former president Biden. After all, there were so many to choose from. Corrupt, antisemitic, compromised, dumb, foolish, two faced, dishonest, dangerous, slimy, demented and arrogant all come to mind.  Many of these same words also describe previous presidents. For example Clinton, Obama and Carter were all corrupt, compromised and dangerous. Obama and Carter were antisemitic but Clinton was not. Carter was an arrogant prick who thought he was smart but in fact was dumb. Albeit, Biden was dumber. All presidents are arrogant to a fault. They must be. After all, to be a leader you must think that you are the best person to lead the country. If you didn't think that way, you'd never win. 

So many (perhaps too many) were dishonest. I blogged about that here. But Biden should win the medal for the most outright lies told. Obama was by far the most two faced. I blogged about two facism (my own word) here.

I'm no expert in US history so I can't say this with 100% certainty but I'll bet that he was the most demented president they ever had. His own party would probably agree with that sentiment. It's too bad they they covered it up for so very long. 

Many were compromised, from both parties. The Bush's who were heavily invested in oil and therefore had skin in the game with the Arab oil producers along with our idol JFK who helped rig his election against the antisemite Nixon. 

Speaking of antisemitism, Biden should be remembered as one of the worst antisemitic presidents of all time. Not so much because he had a deep hatred of Jews. But absolutely due to his actions both abroad (Israel) and within the US where he permitted antisemitism to run wild and rule the day (especially on college campuses). A finger must be pointed, in part, directly to him for the devastating terror attack on Oct 7, 2023. He and his handlers continued to put pressure on Israel to sit down and accept defeat from her enemies. Worse still were his responses to Israel's actions and pleas for military aid in response to that terror attack from Hamas, Hezbolla, Iran, the PA and the Houthis as well as others who helped to direct and finance them (Qatar, Russia, China, Turkey). Instead of helping tiny Israel rid the world of the most evil people on the planet, he charged Israel with committing a genocide!

So you can see my point. So many negative character traits apply to Biden. In the end I chose pathetic. It not only implies them all but I think it really encapsulates Biden's personality. Watching the hundreds of video clips of him mumbling nonsense to the world on camera or stumbling up the stairs to Airforce One or outright lying about his money making scams with his son and brother all project that word. 

Check out this montage of just a few of his many gaffes: here.

In particular, it was the way he left office where that word 'pathetic' is most appropriate. Most of us knew he was not calling the shots from day one. He was simply a place holder until the Democrats could find someone who could do the job. The fact that he was loosing his mind made him a better choice for those who were pulling the strings as they figured he'd follow their lead even easier. Once they decided that it was time to put him out to pasture he more or less, obediently left. But not before he pre-emptively pardoned his family and hundreds of other nasty, guilty people. 

His own colleagues who had nothing but high praise for him for years like Nancy Peloci (here) or Chuck Schumer (here), happily threw him under the bus when they decided it was time for him to go. Here Peloci is saying that Biden needs to go. In the end, it was Chuck who read Biden the riot act. In fact they were so eager to kick him out to the curb, that they brought in the first loser they could find to replace him, Harris. A woman who also could challenge him brain wise for being the dumbest president of all time. So at the end we find that both Republicans and Democrats couldn't stand the man. Even his boss Obama said that 'Biden could F things up' and that was 5 years ago!

As dumb as he was, he did manage to amass a fortune (it's still a mystery how a person on a mere president's salary made so much money in just a short 4 years). So his retirement is well looked after. He will no doubt disappear into the sunset with his handler and wife making sure that he's taking his meds and wearing his diapers. His name will be forgotten in a very short time and he will have no legacy whatsoever. 

This is how I will remember him. He found one thing that he was good at. 

Farewell to the most pathetic president of all time. 

My Tribute to PM Justine Trudeau

It finally happened! Our esteemed Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau resigned! After a very long 9 years he finally announced his resignation on TV to the public. There was a loud sigh of relief. Not just from people like me who would have loved to see him put in chains for all the terrible, treasonous things he's done, but even from people from his own party (Liberal) who had enough of him.  

Now that he finally announced it, the niceties abound from the very people who wanted him out. Not because they didn't like his destructive policies but because he was failing dismally at the polls. Very much like what happened with Biden in the US. For years and until the very end, he was lauded by the Dems as a saviour. As their main defence against the new hitler, Trump. But when it was clear that he would absolutely lose the next election, they dumped him faster that a nest of wasps. And just like here in Canada, as soon as Biden announced that he would not run again, the niceties resumed and were echoed by the MSM. 

Biden and Trudeau are two peas in a pod. They are both dangerous fools who are clearly not in charge. They take their orders from other nefarious people and organizations, like George Soros, the WEF, the UN  and others. They are both dummer than a pile of rocks and I'm sorry to say that people like that should have never come to power. I wouldn't hire either of them to manage a garage sale, let alone a country.

We have some terrible laws in Canada like no term limits for our PM.  So in theory, Trudeau could have remained our leader for the rest of my life time, G-d forbid! But thankfully most Canadians finally came to their senses and let him know what they think. I do recall his first term when despite committing all sorts of evil deeds, he got clean away. If you criticized him in any way, you were ostracized. 

Every term he felt more empowered and who can blame him. It didn't matter what he did. It could be small things like wear black face on multiple occasions (prior to taking office) or much larger things like giving an Islamic, convicted terrorist 10 million dollars! He was slick. Nothing stuck to him. He could do nothing wrong. 

Recall the hijab hoax, when a Muslim girl made up a story about a man cutting off her hijab? His cries of Islamophobia were heard around the world within hours of when the story broke. It was he who led the charge. Yet after the story was confirmed as fiction, he never apologized. In fact he dug a deeper hole. 

There are far too many atrocities that he's committed to mention here but as a proud Canadian Jew I must mention the following:

1. His disastrous immigration policy will leave us troubled for decades. Pretty much daily, some where in Canada is a pro-Palestinian demonstration. And peaceful they are not. I can tell you that it is very disturbing for me to witness their intimidating and often violent demonstrations that continue unabated for years. I blogged about what happened in May 2021 in downtown Toronto here. Why are these destructive people living in my country?

2. His economic policies stink! They are all run by experts in DEI and wokeism. His main foe as far as he and his party are concerned is 'Global warming'.  His focus is all about green energy. Despite its obvious limitations today, if it was up to him, we'd all be taking the subways or buying expensive electric cars. 

3. His fawning over the Gazans (Hamas) is brutally obvious. Calling out Israel for committing a genocide in Gaza puts him clearly on the side of Hamas. They made up that lie and he repeats it. Then to put a cherry on top, he declared that he would arrest Israel's democratically elected PM, Bibi Netanyahu if he stepped foot in Canada! No such decree to arrest any of the thousands of very real Islamic, terrorist leaders was made by him. 

To summarize, he was and still is, on a sure path to destroy our beautiful country. By taxing us to death and spending like crazy, he's helped to make it into a welfare state that any third world country would be proud of. He's proved to be corrupt, compromised, a liar, a racist, dumb and arrogantly in love with himself. He thinks he's the best PM ever despite him being the worst, in my life time at least. 

I hope that some authors will write the truth about him and what he's done. From the SNC Lavalin affair to firing Jody Wilson-Raybould (while claiming to be a feminist).  From his priority given to idiotic costumes when visiting foreign countries to his Harris like made up words like 'peoplekind', there is much to write about. 

Here he is visiting the PM of India:

I have blogged about my PM a few times already, here, here, here, & here. 

We are not eulogizing a family member or friend where we intentionally omit any wrong doings that they might have done. So I for one feel obligated to tell the truth about Trudeau. He's done absolutely nothing good for this country other than finally resigning.

His last day in office can't come soon enough. I'm afraid of what he'll do why he's still our PM. That's why despite him announcing that he won't seek re-election, he needs to be kicked out of office sooner rather than later. Yesterday would be perfect!