by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 20, 2010 | Local
As Maxine Fromkin says of her brother Jay :” My brother Jay lived at home until he was 25 years old, and then moved into the first Shalom Residence on Cathedral Avenue almost 30 years ago. At home the household revolved around Jay, and admittedly he was...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 20, 2010 | Israel
On Sept. 21, Palestinian Authority leaders Machmud Abbas and Salam Fayyad arrive in Washington. According to reports that have appeared in both the Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post newspapers, the purpose of their trip is to improve their relations with the Jewish...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 19, 2010 | Arts/Op-Eds
I recently finished reading two very good novels, both of them about Jewish men and their relationships with their distant fathers, emotional mothers, angry wives, and selfish siblings; both of them about identity crisis and the search for love, peace, contentment and...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 17, 2010 | Local
As many North American synagogues report dwindling attendance at High Holiday services, Camp Massad’s annual second day on-site Rosh Hashanah service seems to grow year after year. Camp Massad is a Hebrew immersion Zionist camp located 90 kilometers north of...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 15, 2010 | Israel
Turning 60 years old two weeks ago, on the day that marked the 40th anniversary of my arrival in Israel, provided an appropriate pause for reflection. After all, there is the tradition that a Jew is reborn upon arrival in Israel, when he or she assumes the inheritance...
