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Canadian couples – in Hamilton and Winnipeg – step up with “Homeless Cars”
By REBECA KUROPATWA
In Hamilton, Ontario, couple Georgina Rosenberg and Benjy Katz could not help but notice that homelessness is a growing issue – in Hamilton, Toronto, Winnipeg, and many more Canadian cities and beyond.
Benjy owns and operates an auto recycling business in Hamilton. With his and Georgina’s desire to curb homelessness, this past summer, they founded a charity: Homeless Cars.
The goal is to provide a way for Canadians to support local organizations involved in helping to curb homelessness, with people being able to do their part by donating their end-of-life cars.
Although there are several other car donation alternatives, to date, none have focused exclusively on the issue of homelessness – until now.
“My husband and partner is in the auto recycling business,” said Georgina. “So, I learned a lot about his industry, being with him.
“I know you don’t have this in Winnipeg, but in Ontario and a lot of other provinces in Canada, Cars4Kids is the biggest car donation for charity organization. My husband was asked to work with them, pick up cars for them, etc. And, we then found out that 100 percent of the funds raised go to the United States, like New Jersey.
“We just thought, this is ridiculous – that somebody is making a ton of money on Canadians without Canadians knowing this. So, we decided to get into it. We decided that, I personally had now finally in my life had the time and the means to give back to a community that has been great to me.
“Pre-Covid, the homeless situation in Winnipeg, I knew, has been awful for years…and it’s the same in Toronto, and in Hamilton. The situation was awful and it’s just being exacerbated by Covid.”
As the concept of car donation was not something new, they did not need to reinvent the wheel. All they needed to do was to find a recipient that people would want to help by donating/allowing the charity to pick up their unwanted vehicle at no cost, with as little hassle as possible.
There are many reasons why people might choose to donate their unused cars. For example, Georgina said, “estate cars are big. I know that when my father passed away 11 years ago he had a Buick of some sort. I was the only child here, my mother had passed, and I had to do everything to do with his care. And then, he passed away and there were all of the legal and financial details to be done.
“I just couldn’t deal with the car. I took the car, drove it to the nearest mechanic, and said, ‘Here’s a car. Here are the keys. Goodbye.’ I just wanted to get rid of it. I didn’t have time and I didn’t want to do it. So, had this [Homeless Cars] existed then, it would have been an easier process.
“The process is a potential donor can either call us; we have a toll free number, or they can fill out a form on our website. They provide information like their name, address, e-mail, telephone number, pick up address…a little bit of information about the car, its year, make, and model, and if it’s driveable…so, we can let the tow truck driver know.
“Then, we’ll take a car in any way, shape, or form. We get them from the bottom of the barrel that may have been sitting in someone’s driveway for 10-15 years. The car might not start, and might just be scrapped as junk. We get pretty good cars as well – like, estate cars, where someone is just not up for dealing with it.”
Donated cars are picked up within 48 hours, with no contact needed, and are sent to be processed. Once the cars are processed, the donor receives a tax receipt of $400, minimum, depending on the car’s weight and quality.
Once Homeless Cars was up and running, Georgina decided to invite Winnipeg’s Hart and Faith Kaplan, to get involved. In Winnipeg, the Kaplans own and operate Western Scrap Metal, and they were happy to join the Homeless Cars crew by processing cars donated locally.
“Georgina contacted us and, from when we started, which I think was in the middle of October, we’ve bought at least 174,000 pounds of scrap vehicles (donated through Homeless Cars),” said Faith. “We were able to break them down and donate to charity, so far, almost $18,000.”
In Winnipeg, the charity that Homeless Cars supports is Siloam Mission, which is physically located very close to Western Scrap Metal.
“We have always been here – in North Point Douglas,” said Faith. “We’ve had a number of customers, unfortunately, who were themselves homeless.
“Other Winnipeggers feel a certain amount of helplessness, because homelessness is a pervasive problem that never seems to go away. So, this is one way that we can make a significant contribution that is consistent with our business core values, and our personal values in terms of philanthropy…and helping repair the city and community in which we live.
“It’s easy. If you have an old car that you don’t want to be bothered with and you would like to get a tax receipt for it, it’s an easy way for Winnipeggers to painlessly help address the homelessness problem in Winnipeg. So, it is dignified, simple, powerful, and effective.”
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Musings from Dizengoff Street – by Bruce Brown
(August 8, 2026)
Outside Basimta Café in Central Jerusalem. Love the red shirt against a tiny sea of black. Not sure I am shrugging because of the ultra-orthodox uproar over a Jerusalem café operating on Shabbat or the lack of an ultra-orthodox uproar over a Jerusalem café operating on Shabbat. For the last six weeks Israeli headlines shouted about the cafe chaos. With the ultra-religious blocking entrances and storming the café. While shouting ‘Shabbos! Shabbos!’ Upsetting the secular amongst us just wanting to enjoy our Saturday iced matchas. So the wife and I thought we would check it out. And. Yes. Buy something to support the business. Uproar. Not. Blocked entrances. Not. Storming the café. Not. Albeit there were police barriers separating the devout protesters from the coffee drinkers. The protesters being just a few dozen black clad, pious Jews. Mostly teenagers. And yes. Shouting ‘Shabbos! Shabbos!’ Certainly underwhelming in its reported mayhem. Reminds me of the famous saying misattributed to Mark Twain – “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do, you’re misinformed.” But I did enjoy my iced matcha.
(August 6, 2026)
Here we go again. Another round of forever negotiations. As someone who negotiates for a living. The way things are going in the straits. If I had to recommend a book on the subject to a new hire. Between The Art of the Deal, A Presidential Edition by Donald J. Trump or The Real Art of the Deal by the Mullahs of Iran with a special forward by the IRGC. Well. I would choose the latter.
(August 3)
Bravo Yoav Segalovitz, Liberal Yesh Atid MK and Monsour Abbas, United Arab Ra’am MK and party head. For breaking a glass ceiling where a Jewish lawmaker joins an Arab political party. No less a political earthquake in my little shtetl. Which can significantly impact coalition block arithmetic and posturing and strategy in the upcoming elections. Now Ra’am can be considered a legitimate ‘Zionist’ partner when forming coalition blocks and potentially pushing the ‘center left/right’ party over the 60 seat majority threshold. In our crazy parliamentary democracy defined by a multi-party (about fourteen!!), proportional representation system. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Israel’s proportional representation model of governance is the best parliamentary democracy system except for all other forms of working democracies. Stay tuned for more amateurish political musings as we move towards Israel’s 26th national election – five of them held since 2019.
(August 1)
Although both sides say they are open to diplomacy. Neither really trusts the other. And American military action, or its threat, continues. I read headlines in the middle of the night -it’s a nervous habit lately– that the Dynamic Duo of Trump and Netanyahu may again strike in unison. Possibly this weekend. Yikes! Prompting me, at 2:30 AM, to dash around the house stocking my safe room. Bottled water. Canned food. Medicines. Documents. The beat goes on….
If it’s crazy here. It’s insane in Italy. With a recent online ‘Jew Hunt’ in the Milan area. Before being removed, the digital forms urged reportings of Israelis and Italian Jews staying in local hotels. The infamous Global Sumud Movement -yes, the one coordinating ‘peace and humanitarian’ flotillas to Gaza- was somehow connected. Although they deny involvement?! This deranged decree was looking to identify Zionist tourism and Zionist neo-colonization in Italy. I’ll stick with stocking the saferoom.
Then there’s New York Mayor Mamdani, a Global Sumud Movement supporter, threatening to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu if he comes to New York. But since discovered he has no legal right for such a grandstanding, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Western, anti-democratic antic. Maybe Mandami should be arrested! Or at least impeached. For being a grandstanding, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Western, anti-democratic mayor.
Here’s a post Bruce sent us Friday, July 31:
WARTIME MUSINGS
Should credible threats against FLOTUS and ‘FSOTUS’ (first son..) not be justification to attack first.
As for yesterday’s summit. Netanyahu really can’t win. Explainer. If Trump now attacks without victory its ’cause of Netanyahu. If Trump now attacks with victory its ’cause of Trump. And, in Israel, if Trump doesn’t attack -victory or not- Netanyahu failed in his eighth meeting with Trump. And if Trump does attack -victory or not- half the country will vilify Bibi anyway. Missing a permutation?
Ya. I know. Kinda’ need a definition of victory for that musing to work.
And here in my little shtetle. We go to sleep unsure if there will be a code red in the middle of the night. And if not. We wake up thinking it will be tonight. How do you define stress?
Seemed like an appropriate way to end this musing.
Bruce Brown is a former Winnipegger who made aliyah to Israel over 35 years ago. Bruce first began writing for us – in his own inimitable style, in 2012, during what was known as “Operation Pillar of Defense.” His occasional musings on aspects of life in Israel that were far from what you’d typically read in other reports from Israel were hugely popular – both in the print Jewish Post & News and on this website.
We’re now glad to report that Bruce is back writing for us – this time on a regular basis. We will post Bruce’s reports as they arrive – with the date of each post at the beginning of that post.
Here’s some information about Bruce – and awards he’s received for his writing:
Bruce Brown. Canadian born. Now living in Israel (for a long time). Bruce works in Israel’s hi-tech sector by day and, in spurts, is a somewhat inspired writer by night. He received the American Jewish Press Association’s award for writing excellence in 2019 and 2025. And wrote the 1998 satire, “An Israeli is….” Bruce’s musings are political, social, economic and personal. With lots of biting, contrarian, sardonic and irreverent insight.
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