by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 23, 2012 | Local
Unfortunately, due to illness, CISA [Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism] had to postpone the First Annual Shindleman Family Lecture. We are very happy to announce that US Special Envoy, Hannah Rosenthal, will be able to give the lecture on Monday,...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 23, 2012 | Local
29 Adar 5772 · March 23, 2012 – Rabbi Ari Ellis and Dr. Earl Hershfield announced the Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun Synagogue’s “burn the mortgage” fundraising campaign today. “Our Shul, entering its 105th year, is challenged by the...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 23, 2012 | Arts/Op-Eds
Memories, guilt, sadness, mourning all washed through me during Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s opening night of Tony Kushner’s play Angels In America: Millennium Approaches. Like everyone around me in the audience, however, by the play’s end I felt...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 23, 2012 | Local
A large crowd of men and women attended National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Winnipeg Section’s program “Healthy Bones” on March 14 at the home of Glenna and Michael Kay. This informative program on osteoporosis consisted of three...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 23, 2012 | Local
The Dachau concentration camp display entitled Names Instead of Numbers [currently in Winnipeg] is not a Holocaust exhibit. The victims of the Hitler regime were indeed diverse but the victims of the Holocaust were Jewish. This is a fundamental distinction and...