Woolf, David: - David Woolf was born in England and grew up in Toronto. His professional activity was in the plastics industry. His communal activity included more than three decades running the youth minyan at Congregation B'nai Torah in Toronto, forty years as the lay head of NCSY Canada, and involvement on the lay boards of JFCS, COR Kashruth Council and Jews for Judaism. He and his wife, Fran, make their home in Toronto, Canada, and Hashmonaim, Israel. They love travelling and meeting with Jewish communities in the countries they visit, and he hopes one day to be recognized by Guiness World Records as having served as "baal kriah" (Torah reader) in the most countries in the world (over thirty thus far and still counting). They have been blessed (bli ayin hara) with five children and sixteen grandchildren (kain yirbu).