by Bruria Cooperman | Aug 19, 2022 | Canada
My summer of celebrityhood. I’m BOOKED FOR AN AUDITION for the Adam Sandler movie!!!! It started with a text from the psychologist in our family – Daughter #1 – who thought I needed to get out of the house. She suggested I apply as an extra for the...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 14, 2021 | Canada
INTRODUCTION She was no more than 4 foot 11, a Japanese version of every stereotype we have seen of an Asian woman — slightly stooped, bowlegged, shuffling along, holding her wicker basket, dressed casually for an afternoon of grocery shopping. Then I...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 12, 2021 | Canada
In a speech at Guildhall on 24 November 1992, marking her Ruby Jubilee on the throne, ‘she’ said: “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 10, 2021 | Canada
My 70th Birthday Party Speech When we became engaged, Earl told my father to have his rabbi talk with Rabbi Bulka in Ottawa. After the perquisite investigation, Rabbi Green said to my father: Host g’davent git – You prayed well. …. But I think I was the...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 10, 2021 | Canada
HUMOUR AND THE HOLOCAUST For This I Survived? Children of Survivors Beyond the Trauma. Bruria Lindenberg Cooperman “Tell me Sam. Where did you and my dad meet?” “We went to camp together!” There has to be some laughter, even in hell. They...
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