by Cindy Leszczynski | May 11, 2014 | Local
In March 1968, less than a year after the Six Day War, Rabbi Eugene Weiner addressed my senior high school class at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia, Pa. about a moral implication of that war: Arab refugees from the 1948 war now live under Israeli...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 10, 2014 | Local
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by Cindy Leszczynski | May 10, 2014 | Local
Funds raised by the Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Region's annual fundraiser, the Negev Gala, will go towards a recycled water reservoir in the western Negev. The reservoir receives treated industrial and domestic waste-water which...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 9, 2014 | Local
[Editor's note: On a personal note, I want to congratulate Marjorie and Morley Blankstein on being honoured by the Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University. They are community leaders of the highest ranking. Not only are they generous philanthropist but they...
by Cindy Leszczynski | May 7, 2014 | Local
(Excerpts from remarks prepared for delivery to the Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood Interfaith Luncheon, 6 May 2014, Winnipeg, Mb.) Statistics tell a striking story[1]. In 1948, the year Israel began, the Jewish population of Arab countries was 856,000; in 2001...
