by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 6, 2011 | Local
Survivor Elly Gotz who lives in Toronto was the keynote speaker at the May 12th Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre’s 10th Annual Holocaust Education Symposium for high school students, at the Duckworth Centre, University of Winnipeg...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 6, 2011 | Israel
On May 29, 2011. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a report which implicated four members of the second battalion of the US/Canadian trained NSF, the Palestinian National Security Force, in the April 24 2011 killing of 24 year old Ben Yosef Livnat, a Jerusalem...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 6, 2011 | Local
With the imminent folding of the Canadian Jewish Congress into a large, umbrella group, those who wish to preserve the most vibrant aspects of the tradition of multicultural politics in Canada have cause for concern. What has been an important legacy of domestic...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 5, 2011 | Local
As a child I grew up on Smithfield and Main Street in a basement apartment in the North End of Winnipeg. My father worked like a dog in a sweatshop on Princess in 1960s. I remember when a kid at school who lived in a very grand-house on Scotia Street...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 5, 2011 | Local
In the Berney Theatre, after her address to Jewish community leadership here on May 30, 2011 , Miriam Ziv, Israel’s Ambassador to Canada was asked by Nora Kaufman the most important question of the day—what about the Palestinian...
