by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 28, 2012 | Local
A 12-year-old boy was beaten outside his Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting anti-Semitic slogans, school officials say, amid continued high security and tensions in France. The school’s human resources director, Katia Normal, said...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 27, 2012 | Local
Today I had an audience with the Pope. Well, not only me; a group of us were on the Interfaith Journey to Rome and Israel with Rabbi Rose and Father Sam. Well, not only us; the hall’s capacity is around nine thousand and it was packed. We arrived in Rome...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 27, 2012 | Local
[Editor’s note: This was written from Jerusalem January 25, 2012 by th ewriter who participated on a trip to Rome and Jerusalem led by Rabbi Rose and Father Sam Argentiano from Winnipeg] A certain delicacy is required to take a group of Catholics...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 27, 2012 | Local
Catherine Chatterley’s essay in the Winnipeg Jewish Review of March 24th, “The Holocaust was not an Interfaith Experience,” is a succinct and brilliant summary of what the Holocaust actually was....
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 27, 2012 | Local
[This is the last installment of Simone Cohen Scott’s review of her trip to Rome and Israel this January, 2012] At last in Jerusalem, we’re in the homestretch of our Rome/Israel, Catholic/Jewish, Pilgrimage/Journey, and for me, it really...
