by Cindy Leszczynski | May 4, 2011 | Local
Over 250 people attended this year’s Annual Public Memorial Service for Yom Hashoah/ Holocaust Memorial Day put on by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg at the site of the Holocaust Monument, where the names of over 3000 Holocaust victims are...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 1, 2011 | Local
Two years ago J-PEG, the Young Adult Division of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, organized a special evening at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue called “And You Shall Tell Your Children”; a dinner and dialogue between J-PEG members and the Holocaust...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 1, 2011 | Israel
[first published in the Jerusalem Post] When I first expressed concern that the protesters in Egypt needed some support to implement democracy, I was immediately pilloried by critics who said I was being unfair. What the protesters were doing was to demand...