A gaunt man of 62, bearded and bespectacled, stares at us through sad eyes that reveal his pain. On the day in late March that Rabbi Arthur Schneier visited him in his Cuban jail, he wore a light blue shirt, a white undershirt, and a tallit over his shoulders as he and Schneier posed for …
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The West has long had a thing for Che Guevara, a doctrinaire Marxist and homicidal maniac of particular note. In the more than four decades since his death, his iconic countenance has adorned tee shirts, caps, and mugs, and companies have used his face to sell their products. This past January, in fact, Mercedes-Benz’s chairman, …
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Did you read about Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, and his call this month to “destroy all the churches of the region?” You might think that’s big news – big enough to garner some attention from America’s leading media – especially because the Grand Mufti is among the Muslim …
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While the United States and its allies dither over whether to materially support the Syrian opposition and, if so, how, Western leaders should recognize that the bloody conflict raises a larger question: Will the West defend freedom at a potential turning point in global history, or will it cede this and future battles to autocratic …
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The United States faces a cold reality: even stepped-up U.S. and Western sanctions of recent weeks have not persuaded Iran’s radical regime, which is driving ever closer to nuclear weaponry, to shift course. That’s largely because Washington has never mounted a credible threat of military action to derail Tehran’s efforts. While President Barack Obama and …
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Welcome to budget week in Washington: President Obama proposes his budget, his opponents slam it, and the inter-party slugfest over fiscal policy resumes. But, if you want to understand the fiscal paralysis in Washington, dispense with this week’s theatrics and read the insightful story that the New York Times ran this past weekend about the …
Have you ever heard of Irena Sendler? During the Holocaust, this Catholic social worker saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death by convincing their parents, who were trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, to let her smuggle their kids to gentile families on the outside. She risked her life every day for months, sneaking the kids …
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