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 11, 2012 | Israel
The Israeli organization “Yesh Din” (There is Justice) recently made a presentation at the United Nations, under the auspices of the United Nations Correspondents Association. Surprisingly—even in that hall of sentiment...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 11, 2012 | Local
TORONTO — A longstanding disagreement over United Church statements on Israel burst into the open last week with Jewish leaders slamming a report by the church’s working group on Israel/Palestine. The report contains “elements that are obscene...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 11, 2012 | Local
I wanted to draw readers’ attention to an article by Myron Love, a Prairies Correspondent for the Canadian Jewish News who in that publication about the new Shul in Winnipeg founded by Laurelle Harris Pinsker. The full article can be accessed...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 10, 2012 | Israel
The Palestinian Authority has been boasting over the past four years of its success in restoring law and order to the West Bank city of Jenin. Journalists from all around the world were invited to Jenin, once notorious for dispatching suicide bombers to...
