Newborn British Shorthair Kitten, 3 weeks old (Michel Botman Photography, Toronto February 27, 2012)
A few words on our gentle cat, Misty, her partner Johnny, and their lovely five new kittens. (See photo gallery following article by clicking on link below.)
Rick Mercer, Lindy and Noah (Michel Botman Photography, Toronto, November 2011)
It has become a bit of a tradition of the Botman-Amato clan: around Noah’s birthday we try to make it to an RMR taping and shake hands with Rick Mercer.
Noah, rescuing paperwork from Thea's jaws (October 16, 2011)
We recently acquired a brand new paper shredder …
Diamonds from the sky. Unexpected hail storm in Harare. (Michel Botman Photography, Zimbabwe, 2011)
Going back to Zimbabwe, the land of so much love and so many dreams, after such a long absence, had filled us with both anticipation and enthusiasm as well as with some gut wrenching apprehension – not unlike going back to visit a long lost relative that one loved dearly but knew to be in poor health and frail condition.
Michel and Jules, Cannes, French Riviera, 1975.
To Noah, with love, always …
Life is passing by – fast and furious, like a torrent fed by the eternal snows of the Kilimanjaro.
Ruby (aka Karima El Mahroug) in an undated photograph (thx to our friends at Google Images)
Who knew that Berlusconi was inclined to spend that much time on Middle Eastern subjects?
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Noah, proud to be photographed with our friend President Barak Obama (March 2010)
Canada just experienced a radical shift to the left of the chessboard. Yet by some ironical twist of sense, our conservative Prime Minister, the honorable and musically inclined Stephen Harper, got reelected with a perfidious majority … “with a little help from my (Quebec) friends”, he was heard singing jovially the next day …
Russian immigrants exercising in "Gorky Park" (Michel Botman Photography, 2006)
A (true) story, in honor of India and all our friends from that wonderful place.
Angel in the snow (Michel Botman Photography)
Last weekend, Noah and I walked back from Rabbi Goorman’s house after his Purim sleepover. While crossing the ravine, just after the small bridge, I spotted a young sprout shooting off the ground on the side of the path. It was maybe 5 centimeters tall – at most – but of an incredibly bright tender green, contrasting sharply with the frozen mud and dark snow around it.
Noah in tuxedo (Michel Botman Photography, 2007)
The situation of women in North America and Europe no longer bears much similarity to the situation of women in the rest of the world – particularly in Africa, Asia and Muslim societies by and large.
South Luangua, Zambia. (Michel Botman Photography 1994)
How can one still take UN decisions seriously?
National Post, April 2, 2009
Canadian nudity laws may be in need of an update
A reflection on an article by By: Daniela Syrovy
A couple of years ago, I wrote to the National Post a letter regarding the excessively prudish and stuffy attitude of many North Americans towards nudity and particularly towards “family change rooms” in public swimming pools. An extract of my letter was published in the National Post of April 2, 2009 (above).
Judgment Day, St Augustine. (Michel Botman Photography, Dec. 31, 2010)
Between Christmas and New Year, I drove up the coast from Fort Lauderdale to St Augustine.
I arrived in St Augustine on New Year’s eve. The sun was low, the shadows long like the night ahead. I saw a head to toe black and white preacher at the corner of St George and Cathedral, built like a redeemed heavy-weight, giving pamphlets away to anyone passing by. I took a photograph, quickly, instinctively as always. He looked at me over his shoulder and handed me one.
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.Above: The Nuremberg law of genetic “Jewishness”
Rabbi Farber : “Sixty per cent of North American Jews would not be able to break the threshold of proving they’re Jews”
Reflection on Paul Lungen’s article “Israeli Rabbi to discuss conversion issues”. Canadian Jewish News, November 11, 2010.
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