by Cindy Leszczynski | May 15, 2011 | Local
[Editor’s note; When David Frum spoke in Winnipeg recently at an event sponsored by the Jewish Heritage Centre on April 28, 2011 he was asked to discuss what he thought some of the Obama administration’s biggest failures have been...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 14, 2011 | Israel
[written May 2011] Dore gold is a former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Summary:The public debate in Israel over the Palestinian plan to seek UN support for statehood in September is based on a fundamental misconception: the UN General Assembly cannot by...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 13, 2011 | Torah Tidbits
“You shall sound a broken blast on the shofar, in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the Shofar throughout your land.” — VaYikrah 25:9 The mitzvah to blow the shofar on yovel When we are on our own...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 13, 2011 | Local
[ Editor’s note: I wasn’t able to attend the Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations in 2010, so 2011’s festivities at the Asper Campus wowed me. The celebration was vastly improved from what I remember occurred in 2009, where crowds were...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 12, 2011 | Local
When I am faced with a problem, frightened or at my wits end my method of coping has always been the same; first I pray and then I clean. When Michel underwent emergency triple by-pass surgery in February of 2005, I remember leaving very late at night the downtown...
