He and equally his wife, Bel Newman, who predeceased him, provided intellectual leadership with a very strong liberal activist bent within the Vancouver Jewish community and also in the more general political and social thinking within the province.
Lui et sa femme, Bel Newman, décédée avant lui, faisaient partie des leaders intellectuels à très forte tendance libérale de la communauté juive de Vancouver, mais également de l'élite générale, politique et sociale de la province.
