Diane Weber Bederman

The Emperor Knows He Has No Clothes

The Leader of the Free World has come to see that he has no clothes and realizes that the leader of the Jewish people is the one to stand up and point

Sex Ed 101 What is the meaning of Consent?

The short answer to what is the meaning of consent? It means saying Yes-verbally and/or with gestures. Now, one would expect that 13 year-olds would know the meaning of YES as well as the meaning of NO. Hard to believe in the 21st century we need courses in the school curriculum to explain the meaning of these two words. Not only words, but now we must teach our young people how to read body language.

Obama, Eichmann and The Banality of Evil

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --Martin Luther King, Jr. Two years ago Adelle Biton was hit by a rock when the family car was attacked outside of Ariel in Samaria by Arab terrorists. They had hurled rocks at the vehicle causing it to veer off the road and crash headfirst into a truck. Adelle was left with severe neurological damage.

Who will save the Christians of the Middle East?

A few days ago Prince Charles lamented about the death of Christians and Christianity in the Middle East, particularly in Syria. He told the BBC he fears there will be “very, very few” Christians left in the Middle East after the turmoil wracking the region. “But at the same time I fear that the problems in the Middle East are not going to go away immediately…And so there is a danger that there is going to be very, very few left.” He said, and rightly so, that the plight of Christians persecuted by Islamic extremists was “a most agonizing situation.” And he noted they were only one of many minorities in trouble around the world. Lots of talk.

Yes, they were "randomly selected" Jews

“It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris,” Obama said, as if Islamic violence was random rather than targeted. As if killing Jews was something new in the 21st century, something that happened because the West bombed Afghanistan and then Iraq and now is fighting against ISIS. As if Muslim countries have a history of being open and tolerant to all.

Intolerance in the DNA

Dangerous in a world that is so interconnected-where evil spreads in the blink of an eye, the click of a mouse.

No Signs of Life

Many years ago I visited a patient on my unit whom I had been told was in serious condition and the medical team which included social workers, was trying to decide how to handle her case. She did not appear to have any friends or family. No one visited her. There were no cards, flowers, no balloons or photographs. Nothing. One could say there were no signs of life.

The Answer to Peace in the Middle East

This article was originally published in The Times of Israel I recently had lunch with Dr. Mordechai Kedar from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He had flown into Toronto, Canada, from Israel for a series of speaking engagements and he had to eat lunch-so I joined him. What do you talk about when you have the chance to speak to someone like this? You talk about Israel and the Middle East.

Damage done in the name of shame

My mother told me in my early teens when I was hurt-not the bruised elbows and knees hurt-but the hurts that bruise the soul-that the little hurts make us stronger, prepare us for the truly big hurts. She knew what she was talking about.

One state, two-state-NO STATE for UNRWA

Remember those famous words “he never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity” spoken about Yasser Arafat in 1978 by Abba Eban? Those words echo through time to all who claim they want to see a Palestinian state. Why, to this day, have the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity for a state?

FEMBIZ on the rise thanks to Dalhousie

Now that the tumult over the deaths of 17 people in France-apparently fueled by the “hurt feelings” of some Muslims over cartoons is subsiding, it’s time to return to the serious issue of the “hurt feelings” of the Dalhousie women and their followers caused by the notorious “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen.”

Submission: What is the meaning of peace in Islam

Terrorism is in our living rooms, today. We are watching France deal with fear. All the while we hear pundits and every-day people speak about peace in Islam: remind us that Islam is a religion of peace. It is. But the question we fail to ask is "What is the meaning of peace in Islam?"

Dateline:Egypt: Attacks against Christian Copts since June 30 2013.

I'm guessing you didn't hear about this, read about it or see it on television. I didn't this either. I didn't know about these events until I heard about them from my pharmacist-yes my pharmacist-a lovely Egyptian Copt whose pharmacy is in the same small very white Anglo-Saxon rural town near where I live.

Dalhousie Women and Restorative Justice

Girls are nasty. It starts around the age of eight. They form little cliques and always pick on one or two. They often bully. As they get older, their cliques expand. They form cabals. They are more than capable of making the lives of others girls miserable. Lonely. I know. I was once a girl. I am the mother of girls and granddaughters. Nothing has changed.

Mental Illness: The Root Cause of Terrorism?

The other night I came across the 1986 movie “Sword of Gideon,” Israel’s response to the Munich Massacre, 1972. It was written by Canadian George Jonas, now a respected columnist in Canada. I was taken by the last words in the movie.

We Will Remain Undaunted

The terrorist attacks that took place in Canada this past week are an attack on our culture, our way of life, Western civilization. Two of our members in the military were murdered: Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in Quebec, murdered by Martin Coutrue-Rouleau, a professed Muslim; and the murder by Michael Zeha-Bibeau of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, who was standing guard at the War Memorial in Ottawa, over those unnamed heroes who had given their lives so that we, their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, could continue to live in a democracy.

Niqab: Is it an affront to democracy?

Niqab: Is it an affront to democracy?

Feminists call for equality and then scream "unfair"when they get it

As a woman, a mother and grandmother of girls and boys, I am appalled at the attitude, today, of those women who call themselves feminists or liberated and demand that they be more represented in “male” dominated places of work, including government, but are quick to deny responsibility for behavior.

Parents until death -- not divorce -- do us part

We have unfortunately been inundated by nasty news about men. Shameful. There is no excuse for abuse. But, at the same time, let us not let anger toward this behaviour tarnish the importance of men in the lives of their families.

The Normalization of Jew-hatred at Temple University and Around the World

Times of Israel We hear so much today about protecting rights of minorities. But not all minorities. There are 7 billion people in the world, and only 14 million Jews. It seems to me if any group needs protecting it is the Jewish people: the scapegoat for the world’s problems.