by Cindy Leszczynski | Nov 30, 2011 | Local
[Editor’s note: This is the speech delivered by Winnipeg lawyer John McGoey of Pitblado Law at the B’nai Brith Award of Merit Gala on Nov 21, 2011 at the Fairmont Hotel in honour of Sandy and Robert Shindleman. For...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Nov 30, 2011 | Local
Reprinted with permission Recently, Yale shut down its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). Some claimed that the center was perhaps too "political." Almost simultaneously, on June 23, 2011, the University of California...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Nov 30, 2011 | Local
Steven Schipper’s Romeo and Juliet currently playing at the Manitoba Theatre Centre is not the first time that this play by Shakespeare has been set in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it is surely the first time Winnipeggers have had a...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Nov 30, 2011 | Israel
Whoever thinks that U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 – the famous Partition Plan – from Nov. 29, 1947, is for historians of the Middle East alone, is not aware of the role that the 64-year-old resolution still plays to this very day. As...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Nov 29, 2011 | Local
For some, buying a new cookbook is like buying a new car. Choices are based on research and reviews, with fierce determination to find the best fit with all the bells and whistles one could possibly dream of. For the right price, of course. Oh, and it also needs...
