by Cindy Leszczynski | May 18, 2012 | Israel
The monthly U.N. Security Council Debate on “The Situation in the Middle East, Including the Palestinian Question” offered nothing unusual in the way of concrete results…nor was is expected to do so. What was just a bit unusual was the number of...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 18, 2012 | Local
After WWII, Leon Berger became a teacher because he wanted to “help kids who had lost years of Jewish education during the war to get back on track…teaching was my desire,” he said. “A Jewish education is the greatest education in the...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 17, 2012 | Local
Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Jewish Foreign Minister—profiled last year by this correspondent in an exclusive interview– has been appointed to a critical European economic position…and at a very difficult time. Sven...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 17, 2012 | Local
THE FACTS 1. There was NEVER a state or entity called Palestine until after 1948. 2. The name derives from the Philistines who lived around the Jordan River in Roman times. 3. In 1917, the area now known as Jordan and Israel was called the British Mandate of Palestine...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 17, 2012 | Local
Bob Freedman, who will soon be celebrating his 26th year as the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Winipeg has just been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. He has already attended his first board meeting....
