by Cindy Leszczynski | May 12, 2012 | Local
Editor’s Note: Majeda El Batsh, the Israeli-Arab affairs correspondent of the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) reported from the Israeli Arab town of Umm El-Fahm in northern Israel that for more than five decades, Leila Jabarin hid her secret from...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 12, 2012 | Local
When I was 10, my grandmother took me to Israel for three weeks to visit my aunt and uncle on Kibbutz Beit Hashita in the lower Galilee. Known for its olive and pickle factory, Beit Hashita was considered a success story. It was a large and thriving kibbutz motivated...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 12, 2012 | Local
There is no food and no clean water, nothing,” Mahmoud, a 12-year-old boy from Homs, Syria, told Reuters Thursday. “There is no shop open and we only have one meal a day. How can we live like that and survive?” According to the World Food Program,...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 12, 2012 | Arts/Op-Eds
Jimmy Greene New Work January 19, 2012 Congratulations are in order as U of M Assistant Professor Jimmy Greene leaves Winnipeg. As local band leader Curtis Nowosad writes, “Jimmy Greene has just been hired as the new Director of Jazz Studies at Western...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 12, 2012 | Local
[At this year’s Yom Hazikaron service, Wilf Mandel who lives in Toronto came to Winnipeg to address the crowd and tell the story of the heroism of his late uncle, former Winnipegger Willie Fisher who died in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948....
