Feb 23 2015

Oh brother! Where art thou?!

Dear editor: Oh brother! Where art thou?! I mean really, where do you get this stuff? There must be something in the water here. A few weeks ago, a bizarre prognostication of smiting from outer space appeared on the pages…  [more]

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Feb 22 2015

If in the next breath

Beating Back ISIS

By Martin Accad, February 20, 2015   Every few days, we seem to wake up to another massacre committed by ISIS. And these are, of course, only the ones that the media reports. ISIS, in reality, is…  [more]

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Feb 22 2015

We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal

 

What ISIS Really Wants

By Graeme Wood, March 2015   What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to…  [more]

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Feb 21 2015

May we meet again as happy thieves in Paradise

Testament of Dom Christian de Chergé

(opened on Pentecost Sunday, May 26, 1996)   Facing a GOODBYE … If it should happen one day — and it could be today — that I become a victim of the terrorism which…  [more]

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Feb 07 2015

You may find yourself left behind

 

Visitor from space

By Donald Cunningham, February 7, 2015   Recently, our planet had a visitor from outer space, and I don’t mean Klaatu. It was what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has labeled “2004 BL86,” a giant…  [more]

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Jan 31 2015

Ana bahibak ya jeddi

A Hasidic Prayer at a Palestinian Conference

By , 01/30/2015 5:59 pm EST   I grew up in Israel, born into an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish family, convinced that all Arabs desired my destruction, and totally unprepared for any…  [more]

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Jan 26 2015

The border between satire and insult

Hook-nosed Jew vs. Mohammed cartoons: What’s the difference?

By , Jan. 21, 2015 11:50 AM   You won’t be surprised, in these post-Charlie Hebdo days, to hear that there’s a controversial cartoon going around the Internet. I’m…  [more]

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