by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 27, 2012 | Local
On my recent visit to Canada, I was confronted by the growing strength and public acceptance of the Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) and came back to Israel with new friends who take a courageous stance for Israel – The First Nations communities. Background:...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 27, 2012 | Israel
Who is stopping the Palestinians from turning the Gaza Strip into the Middle East’s Hong Kong? Is it Israel, the Palestinians themselves or the Arab countries? In the past few weeks, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has visited a number of Arab and Islamic...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 27, 2012 | Local
My friend Chaim Simon Kagan was born in my town of Mir, Poland, in 1927. Most of the time, we used to meet in our synagogue every Saturday. Simon’s father used to sit facing my family. We were father and five brothers. We attended Talmud Torah School...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 26, 2012 | Israel
Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional and complex than the status of those people known as Palestine refugees. The origins of this unique case, notes Nitza Nachmias of Tel Aviv University,...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 26, 2012 | Local
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has stopped funding a settlement program for new immigrants run by Palestine House [The Palestine house Educational and Cultural Centre], Palestinian non-profit in Mississaugua, Ont. A Feb. 14 report on mississauga.com stated...
