It's August 17th and I've just returned from a vacation in Toronto, Canada. For eleven days, the weather was sunny, cool and beautiful. I forgot I had just come from the humidity and heat of south Florida.

Toronto is a beautiful city. It's modern skyscrapers reach skyward.  An extension designed by Daniel Liebeskind for theRoyal Ontario Museum. modernistic and breathtaking. But when we left thes premises of the museum, , we were met by verbal and signage assault by a mass of marchers - many in burkas - shouting "death to Israel," "occupiers get out of Gaza," "muslims will rule the world."

Meanwhile across the border to the US, only 60 miles away, Americans are collecting money to provide new but empty operating rooms in Hadassah Hospital with the latest equipment for saving lives...Jewish, Arab and any other  lives.

Let us remember, in these troubled times, that Saving a Life (any life) is saving a nation.

Janet S. Kleinman
Author
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER WHEN LOVE AND NATURE COLLIDE
(a romantic novel in the midst of earthquake ravished Haiti)