by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 22, 2010 | Next Generation
Zev Faintuch was awarded the Mina Rosner Human Rights Award on September 22 which is presented to the winning entry in the Mina Rosner Human Rights Essay Competition [His winning essay is presented at the bottom of this article]. The ceremony took place...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 22, 2010 | Israel
Whenever I’m not attempting to conjugate Hebrew verbs or not pondering menus for the chagim (holidays), I’m preoccupied with finding a lesson to write about. During my morning drive to Ulpan I remembered an incident I witnessed, which believe me is...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 21, 2010 | Local
A young offender who was arrested in Winnipeg last march has pled guilty recently to multiple charges-including willful promotion of hatred being responsible arising out of a series of anti-Semetic graffiti attacks on Jewish institution sand private property last fall...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 21, 2010 | Local
What kind of shoes does one wear to stand in a large vat and crush grapes ? The Winnipeg Jewish Review posed this question to Gail Asper at the at Mona Lisa Restaurant’s Stomping For Human Rights Wine Festival on September 16. Asper who joined...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 21, 2010 | Israel
One of those "can you imagine…" moments that I have been known to use to describe Winnipeg to the average Israeli is the story of how the schach (roof) of our succah collapsed under the weight of the snow. We had a very pretty Succah in the...
