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September 2015

September 14, 2015

For Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish Earworm

Being Jewish isn’t always a picnic. I got my first inkling of this when I...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

“Jewish Schindler” Working to Liberate ISIS Sex Slaves

As of this writing, Montreal businessman Steve Maman has been instrumental in rescuing 128 women...

August 03, 2015

Israel Rules Duma Attack Terror, Indicts Two in Church Arson Attack

From Israel and the West Bank: good news and bad news. First, the good news:...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Those Stupid Private Race Wars

While marching last week through Istanbul’s super-historic Sultanahmet district to protest the Chinese government’s restrictions...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

The Rising Cost of Price Tagging

Last Thursday, after arson damaged the administrative buildings of the historic Church of the Multiplication...

June 18, 2015

In Charleston: AME Martyrs of Charity

Earlier today, someone set fire to the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Special Attention: Part I

On my way home from Turkey, I stopped in Kyiv -- the auld sod, more...

April 18, 2015

In Petra: A Bedouin Girl Leans In

She had a winning smile. As an 11-year-old who had years to go before growing...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

Looking the Dead in the Face

In December, 1960, a detachment of French Foreign Legion paratroopers killed three FLN rebels thought...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Against Interfaith Upbringing

This past October, to mark the Feast of the Holy Rosary, one of my Facebook...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Yes, He’s the Burying Kind

We should have buried Erich Priebke. Or rather, since protesters in Albano Laziale effectively derailed...

September 2013

September 02, 2013

We’ve Got A Live One

The very day I wrote in praise of Catholic doodads, a friend of mine, having...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

Mourning My Father and (In Some Ways) A Gentler Time

I woke up Saturday morning in a funk. In itself, this is nothing unusual. But,...

August 18, 2011

Ralph Branca: Remembering Jerusalem

The athlete whose career seems in retrospect to have been defined by an instance of...

August 10, 2011

News Flash: Catholics and Jews Still Largely Cool

In one of the Simpsons' earlier seasons, Marge writes to the producers of Itchy and...

June 2011

June 22, 2011

Wimbeldon Head: No Grunting, Please. We’re British

The chief executive of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club wants Wimbeldon competitors to...

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