by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 10, 2012 | Israel
[Editor’s note: Tom Gross in his Mideast Dispatches raised a very good question asking why with all the recent interest in the Munich Massacre this last couple of months, why has the media been silent on the role of Mahmoud Abbas (now the...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 9, 2012 | Local
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, will deliver CISA’s 2013 Shindleman Family Lecture on April 22, 2013 at the Hotel Fort Garry. Professor...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 9, 2012 | Local
An expert in counter-terrorism, Dr Jonathan Fine says that in analyzing the Arab Spring New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, a "good Journalist" got it wrong, when “he was comparing what was going on in the Arab world with what...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 9, 2012 | Arts/Op-Eds
A New Year! May it bring new chances, new hopes for peace and harmony: may we see an end to conflict and reach out to each other with love and honor. In our synagogues, we chant the prayers of our ancestors. Singing well-known melodies, whispering fervent...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 9, 2012 | Local
Former Minister of Justice and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler has written an important article which Jewish communities in Canada need to read, entitled Justice Delayed is Justice Denied .http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=284113 Cotler has a...