by Cindy Leszczynski | Jan 29, 2017 | Local
In a break with all recent practice at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power Friday merely abstained on a U.N. Security Council Resolution critical of Israel’s so-called “settlements’. Thus the...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jan 27, 2017 | Local
In what has become a regular feature of its annual Holocaust commemoration, the United Nations opened the first of two exhibits on less-known aspects of the Holocaust, this one highlighting the Holocaust as it occurred in various parts of Romania. ...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jan 27, 2017 | Local
The much-vaunted (and much-feared) Conference called by the French in Paris for January 15th was—so it was rumored—a simple, anti-Israel plot. It would convene, produce and pass yet another vicious anti-Israel Resolution similar to the recent one in...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jan 27, 2017 | Local
The United Nations’ new Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, in his first major address outside the U.N., spoke this past Shabbat at New York’s Park East Synagogue. In what has become an annual event, the Upper East Side congregation, led...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Jan 25, 2017 | Local
Several neighbours have responded to a recent ugly antisemitic incident that occurred in Woleseley by working collaboratively to produce and distribute a poster with a Magen David on it with a message fostering tolerance and mutual respect. A...
