by Cindy Leszczynski | Oct 19, 2010 | Local
The Jewish National Fund announced on October 18, 2010 in the Hula Valley in Israel that Christine Melnick is the JNF Honouree for the 2011 Negev Gala. This was announced at the same time that the Province of Manitoba signed a...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Oct 19, 2010 | Local
On Sunday, October 24th, the Winnipeg chapter of the Canadian friends of the Hebrew University will be presenting a series of lectures on a variety of topics with some of the university’s world renowned professors. This event will take place from 10:15 am...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Oct 19, 2010 | Local
The Jewish notion that alcoholism is a gentile problem is an old baba’s mysseh. We can’t make the problem go away by turning our backs on it. To quote Virginia Satir, a pioneer in the field of family therapy who was internationally acclaimed as a...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Oct 19, 2010 | Arts/Op-Eds
“Lenin’s Embalmers” mines the confluence between politics and science and comes up with a highly entertaining dark comedy. The Canadian premier of Winnipeg born Vern Thiessen’s production opened to a near capacity crowd last Thursday,...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Oct 18, 2010 | Local
Israel and Manitoba concluded agreements on commercial business development, agriculture, water and ecotourism, which was highlighted by a signing ceremony at the Knesset led by Premier Greg Selinger and Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on October 13.,2010...