by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 30, 2013 | Local
One might have hoped that Obama’s calamitous mishandling of recent Middle East crises, climaxing with his disastrous response to the Syrian use of chemical weapons, would have taught him a few lessons on regional politics. Regrettably, his address to the United...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 30, 2013 | Local
[Editor's note: By the end of this column I promise I will tell readers what a " Shiterein" is.) Over this past summer, when speaking to Marsha Cowan I asked a question and received this response "It's like...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 29, 2013 | Local
In an exclusive sizzling interview with the Winnipeg Jewish Review (which took place during intermission at the Asper Jazz Series concert M'otzei Shabbat), a warm Dr. Earl Hershfield, President of Herzlia Adas Yeshurun Synagogue (Earl likes when I...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 29, 2013 | Local
In 1965, my family began to learn the hard way that heart diseases were BAD. We lost my uncle who had collapsed in his doctor’s office. The next year my mother was immobilized in hospital; we were told “she looks like she is going to have a heart...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Sep 27, 2013 | Local
One of the many nice things about living in Israel is that you get to celebrate two birthdays; one according to the Jewish calendar (aka the ‘religious’/Jewish/Hebrew birthday), and one according to the Gregorian (aka the Facebook birthday). Every 19...