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 4, 2011 | Local
Editor’s note: Former Winnipegger and graduate of Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate Koby Tanzer, (son of Shira Waldman Z"L, nephew of Robbie and Carol Waldman, and a Camp Massad alumni) has recently made aliya to Israel [from Los Angeles]...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 4, 2011 | Israel
There will be no peace with the Palestinians. Not this year, not this decade, perhaps not this generation. Even if Ehud Olmert becomes prime minister again, there will be no peace with the Palestinians. Even if Tzipi Livni resumes the negotiations with Ahmed Qureia,...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 4, 2011 | Israel
Now that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his recent sparring partner Barack Obama are back in their corners, the next Arab-Israeli political flash point could be this fall at the U.N. General Assembly. The Palestinian Authority is lobbying Assembly...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jun 4, 2011 | Arts/Op-Eds
As I do every year as summer approaches, I have begun putting aside books to shlep out to the cottage for my reading pleasure in July and August. So far, this stack of summer reading is mostly made up of books that have come my way in recent months but that I...
