My Mother Embodied Selfless Love
May 10, 2025
(left. My mother feeding my brother in 1958)
By her example, my mother,
Helen Iskowicz Makow (1919-1983),
taught me that love is selfless
"I grew up in an era when the media taught us that homemakers were not cool. Women like my mother who nurtured and loved their families were denigrated. That attitude rubbed off on me."
Satanists are all about degrading and dehumanizing us by destroying institutions like Motherhood. Evil wants us too frightened and distracted to honor our mothers on Mother's Day.
by Henry Makow PhD
My biggest regret is that I never showed my mother how much I loved her before she died in 1983 of breast cancer.
(Left. The nuclear family is the building block of a healthy society. Dad took this picture of us.)She taught me how a woman brings love into the world by her selfless dedication to family. When someone totally sacrifices for you, when someone is unconditionally for you, it's pretty hard not to love them back with all your heart.
Mothers are the unsung heroes of society. They do the difficult, thankless work of nurturing and teaching helpless children in sickness and in health.
My mother's credo was to serve her husband first, children second, Canada third and Israel fourth. She wasn't on her own list.
She never demanded anything in return; and as result, we took her for granted. We exploited her.
She was so selfless that I noticed when, once at dinner, she took a choice cut of chicken for herself.
Once, when I was doing a TV appearance in NYC for "Ask Henry," a producer showed us the sights in his sports car.
We had an accident. The car door flew opened and my mother fell on to the pavement.
I screamed in panic, "Mom!"
Thankfully, she wasn't hurt.
Why did it take an accident to show her that?
My mother had survived the war by passing as a Gentile. She didn't finish high school and didn't read books. But she had a sophisticated stamp collection and made batiks.
When I was eight-years-old, I related an incident that occurred at school. She told me to be strong and stand up for what is right.
You don't learn that in school. You learn that from life.
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Comments for "My Mother Embodied Selfless Love"
MM said (May 9, 2023):
I loved your tribute to your Mother.
It was very touching and I can relate.
My late mother was born in 1919 and loved being a mother, wife, and homemaker. She, too, passed away of cancer and I was so immobilized by my deep sorrow that I could not express my love and thankfulness, to her in her final days. I do believe I will see her in Heaven.
God bless you.
Tony E said (May 11, 2020):
Well said Henry, when I was young my mother encouraged my love for chess, I finished 2nd place in NYC Archdiocese tournament, my hero was not Mickey Mantle but Bobby Fischer, he adored his mother a poor Jewish woman cleaning apartments on NYC lower east side. Bobby had a 180 IQ and was slandered as being crazy by the elite Jews which he exposed for their plans for a NWO.
He was a great man with a great love for his mother, Much like you Henry.
Les said (May 10, 2020):
As the comments above make abundantly clear, a Mother’s prime job is love, which in turn begets love. Without “Mothers†this world is doomed to violence and a loveless existence for humanity. As you have repeatedly made clear, this is the meaning of the NWO. This is why they are trying to destroy Motherhood.
Love is more powerful than evil. The NWO, will not succeed for this reason. Although we are not yet through the tunnel, and we must suffer still more, I believe love will eventually vanquish this horrible experiment.
Henry thank you for this powerful article. I also had a loving Mother. I also did not appreciate this until after her death.
G said (May 10, 2020):
Henry, just wanted to say that the pictures of you and your family that you've posted over the years show so very much love, such good history, lives well-lived. Your mother is especially beautiful and looks the embodiment of nurturing strength. Good that you have had such an influence. Shows in your character. None of us has had a perfect life, but how much more awful it would have been without those who did the best they knew how to love us. So here's to families who try!! Imperfect, and prone to on-going mistakes, they somehow make the journey worthwhile. Happy Mother's Day!! I hope the result of all this evil that surrounds us everyday will be that we root out the evil and we love each other with greater intention.
Lora said (May 12, 2019):
I know many women who are being made to feel guilty by society no matter what they do: they work, they feel guilty for not seeing their baby. They do not work, they are feeling guilty for not doing so. I am not talking about the lazy ones. I am talking about conscientious, life affirming and aspiring women. We are being driven crazy at every front.
For me the guilt ended when I started to study the Bible properly and got to know my Father in Heaven better. It showed me that being a mum is an extremely honorable position and come with great responsibility. I chose a modest but good life nor am I jealous of other women's achievements.
Now, I am glad I made that choice. My kids are a joy and loving to me. Everything I worked for prior to the children, doesn't exist anymore. It was wasted time and effort; somebody else got rich. My children are my legacy and the best thing I have done. Women have to make choice and then be ok about it and take responsibility for it. I am glad to live a life where I had the choice though and wasn't forced into either direction.
Now we need to support the fathers.
Diane said (May 13, 2018):
Henry I love to read your story every year. Your Mom was like so many who live to care for their children.
I have something I'd like to say.
I simply cannot walk around in a Pink Pussy Hat with a bunch of ridiculous feminist.
They are not fighting for what's important.
All women should be provided six months of maternity leave.
What we get in the US is barbaric.
If Feminism were not state and corporate sponsored, we'd have maternity and child welfare laws that promoted family health.
Ken Adachi said (May 13, 2018):
What a magnificent ode to the selfless love that so many angelic mothers shower upon their children (which is often not fully realized until much later in life). The entire course and direction of our life is determined by the lessons we learn under the wing of a loving mother, yet we rarely realize the value of those lessons that we instilled within while observing her example. I too was blessed with a mother who could only be described as saintly, considering the hardships she had endured when my father was hospitalized for 2 years during World War II, yet did everything necessary to keep our family whole, together, loving, and laughing. God thanked her for her service by allowing her to live a long life, free of disease, and went further by sending me a wife who is just as loving, caring, and devoted to me as was my mother. Who could ask for greater gifts than the love of a mother and wife?
But there was one historian who did reveal the truth. 
CONCLUSION
DD said (May 10, 2023):
For the Traditional Mother's Day Thoughts - [yes, emphasis added]
America gave us not only the 1st and 2nd Amendments
and the entire Bill of Rights
and ALL the subsequent gifts that Tyranny shall not infringe upon
[Thank You, Founding Fathers - early Father's Day gratitude]
America gave us, Henry, that pure fertile ground wherein a Mother's Love can thrive and flourish within The Traditional Family.....
just a thought, friend, whilst we watch perilously from the front row this great divinely-inspired gift... a gift that was fought for and attained by gathered caring, learned souls... get gutted and field-dressed like a poacher's trophy