by Cindy Leszczynski | Dec 8, 2013 | Local
Vintage cars and a Jewish community that figured out a way to preserve its synagogues I have been looking back at photos I took while in Cuba in 2009, when I would get up early at the Melia Hotel in Havana and meander out onto the nearby streets and...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Dec 8, 2013 | Local
Rabbi Michael Goldstein’s Assimilation: Fight it? Accept it? rebutting Gabriel Roth’s piece, American Jews Are Secular, Intermarried, and Assimilated is found on the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) site at: ...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Dec 7, 2013 | Local
Perhaps this question is better put by asking is Conservative Judaism that our parents and grandparents knew vanishing, is that to be celebrated or mourned and if the latter, can and will the Conservative movement act to reverse this trend before Kaddish...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Dec 7, 2013 | Local
Ron Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), called upon Hillary Clinton to present the organization’s second annual Theodor Herzl Award to Marion and Elie Wiesel last month at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. “We have come to know...
by admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Local
Corne Jews were made to become grain speculators in Germany and blamed for rising food prices. The Antisemitic Corne Jew medal was first issued in Germany in 1694 and issued the last time in 1923 before the rise of Hitler [I can't write this story without ...
