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 We would like to thank our benevolent donors, Dr. Max & Gianna Glassman, for their commitment to fulfilling the mitzvah of “building Jerusalem”. AACI is proud to be partners with the Glassmans in building and strengthening our English-speaking community in Israel. Max Glassman was born in Toronto to Polish Jewish immigrants, Nuson, a horse-and-buggy rags peddler, and Chaya. He received his secular and Jewish education until age sixteen, when he quit school to care for his chronically ill and poverty-stricken parents.
Max joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII, during which he educated himself by taking correspondence courses and attending night school whenever possible. After four years of service, Max was honorably discharged. He used government veteran grants to complete his matriculation, and worked arduously to gain admission to the extremely competitive and highly renowned Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. After seven years, he successfully completed the training and graduated as a physician and surgeon.
Dr. Max founded the Queensway Medical Centre and Clinic in Toronto over 50 years ago, where he continues to practice as its Medical Director. In addition, he became deeply interested in the interdependency of the body and mind to achieve and retain health. This led Dr. Max to spend the last 30 years teaching, lecturing and conducting seminars that promote happiness as a science.
Dr. Max is married to a wonderful lady named Gianna who encourages and supports him in all his endeavors. He has four children, 3 daughters and one son. He has four grandchildren. The Glassmans are ardent, proud Zionists, own a home in Jerusalem, and spend four-five months here during the spring and fall Holidays.
Dr. Max and Gianna support many institutions in Israel including: Yad Vashem, the Jewish National Fund and the Museum of Tolerance & Dignity. They also support the I.D.F and have built both a permanent and a mobile Beit Knesset for our soldiers.
In Toronto, Dr. Max and Gianna support many Jewish and non-Jewish projects. They have established a Chair in Neuropsychology for memory research and Alzheimer disease at the University of Toronto and established the B'nai Brith " Glassman Senior Outreach Centre". They have created the "The Glassman Tools for Tolerance" program, conducted by the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation in Toronto, to educate non-Jews about the Holocaust, fighting anti-Semitism while teaching tolerance to educators, police, judges and government officials. This magnanamous couple has also endowed the University of Toronto with a program that brings an Israeli scholar to lecture on an annual basis.
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