by Cindy Leszczynski | May 19, 2010 | Arts/Op-Eds
Fourteen year old Gray Academy of Jewish education student Sara Thompson has won first place overall in the junior soloist category of the Canadian National Dance Competition for her lyrical piece entitled “Dear Dairy” which is about the damaging effect of...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 17, 2010 | Arts/Op-Eds
For those of us that went to Hebrew school in my generation, there was generally not much emphasis given to speaking Yiddish. Growing up around my house, Yiddish primarily consisted of four basic words – mensch , chutzpah, meshugaas and potz –you hoped to...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 15, 2010 | Next Generation
In the small town of Selkirk, Manitoba, there is not much emphasis placed on studying the Holocaust. In the past few months, however, many Aboriginal students began learning about and discussing the Holocaust after being asked by B’nai Brith in Manitoba to hold...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 15, 2010 | Arts/Op-Eds
Former Winnipegger and Joseph Wolinsky graduate, Janelle Silverstone ( nee Devere) has published her first children’s book called, Kid Power – Kids Like You Figure It Out. The book of four Jewish themed stories is published under her Hebrew name, Chaya...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 13, 2010 | Arts/Op-Eds
[Editors note: Former Winnipegger Rochelle Mass is an award winning poet living in Israel.] Each year as the Winnipeg sun grew strong my mother would tell me how her mother made lockshen how she rolled the long threads up into balls, placed the tight fists in cotton...
