by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 7, 2013 | Local
17 Israeli children and 3 coaches are coming to Winnipeg from March 12-19 to be immersed in Canadian hockey. They are students at the Canada Israel Hockey School (located in the Canada Centre in Metulla), and the group comprises Jewish, Arab and Druze boys from...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 6, 2013 | Local
Elie Wiesel, the well-known author and Holocaust survivor, described hunger in his book Night, saying, “Bread, soup—these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 6, 2013 | Local
Rabbi Shais Taub delivered an inspiring and at times very humourous talk on Jewish spirituality and recovery from addictions last month before at a well attended dinner dedicated to the memory of Hart Peikoff z”l. Taub's...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 6, 2013 | Local
Robin Paisner, a member of Winnipeg’s Jewish community, arrived at my door the other day with what was a beautiful bouqet of flowers–not just any flowers, but flowers I could eat! Paisner just opened Blossoms Winnipeg, located at 577 Academy Road in...
