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Diane Weber Bederman

Diane Weber Bederman is a blogger for 'Times of Israel', a contributor to Convivium, a national magazine about faith in our community, and also writes about family issues and mental illness. She is a multi-faith endorsed hospital trained chaplain.

Most Recent Articles by Diane Weber Bederman:

Of Good Humour and Dark Pessimism and Consoling Wisdom, with a large Dollop of Humour

“I feel that I am living on the razor’s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation-between justifying my existences and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.” Scott Stossel I’ve just read the most unbelievable treatment for anxiety brought on by the imminent approach of speaking in public. It’s the kind of anxiety that grabs the stomach, leaving one buckled over-fearing a gushing -from one end or the other-is about to take place. The treatment is drug based and timed to kick in just when most needed: before that speaking engagement!
- Wednesday, August 27, 2014


Did Robin Williams frighten you?

"So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?" --The Work Being Accomplished Within You; Letters to a Young Poet August 12 1904 by Rilke
- Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Will that be Qatar or Israel?

Imagine a world where the West is under water and the only places to live are in the Middle East and North Africa. The countries are opening their doors for you. I know that’s a big stretch of one’s imagination but go with me. You will be accorded all the rights and freedoms the citizens of those countries receive. You will be as one with them.
- Thursday, August 7, 2014

The Devolution of Belgium

Bob Schieffer, of CBS News, recently lamented on the condition of the world. It’s gone mad, he said. Then he quoted Will Durant.
- Monday, August 4, 2014


Do we really want a parallel Sharia Compliant Economic System in the West?

I discovered, quite by accident, that there is a Muslim based economy developing in Canada: Halal and Sharia Compliant Investments, with their own laws specific to Sharia law. It has been developing rather quietly for several years. I found a reference to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Sharia compliant laws from 2011 on Blogwrath after I had already lodged my own complaint with CIBC regarding these investments. I never heard back from CIBC but I did get a notification from Twitter that I was now being followed by the investment broker whom I had reported.
- Wednesday, July 23, 2014

There is a sickness festering in Calgary, Alberta

On Friday July 18, a Pro-Palestinian demonstration took place in Calgary. The organizer of this event was the University of Calgary student club "Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights" whose current president Ala'a Hamdan recently said "My body and soul are ready to fight and die," and "This land will be proud that Palestinian babies are born men and women ready to spill their blood." In a fictional battle hymn written to a son, Ms. Hamdan also wrote: "I will soak a koffiah with your blood and save it to show to your siblings ... I will be named the mother of the martyr." Featured speaker at the anti-Israel rally was Alberta Liberal MLA Darshan Kang who will be running for the federal Liberal Party.
- Tuesday, July 22, 2014

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