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Feb.16.2009
It's true--we put an ocean between us and the Cossacks, keep our feet on city sidewalks now. But I am going to a retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains for two weeks, to a historic home recommended by my friend Katherine Smith. It's a real retreat, no cell phones, internet or TV. I'm already...
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Jan.17.2009
It was a true thrill to reunite with a college friend I had not seen for fifty years at her lecture/book signing in Los Angeles the other night. The college friend was Dr. Ruth Wisse, now a distinguished Harvard professor whose opinions about the Jewish people and Israel are quoted not only in...
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Jan.15.2009
One view of the conflict in the Middle East from the JERICHO ROSE collection (as yet unedited)
The Virgin Speaks
We had to go a different way –
I suppose it was to be expected –
Taking the path that snakes...
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Dec.03.2008
Since the terrorist began their rampage in Mumbai a week ago, I have grown sick of reading about how India stands at the verge of Hindu-Muslim "sectarian" or "religious" violence. Every British and American editorial attempts to explain why US and EU cannot act again Pakistan by...
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Nov.12.2008
MONKS CALL FOR INSTANT REPLAY...JERUSALEM, Nov. 11...Greek Orthodox prelates today demanded that the Armenian side stop declaring victory in yesterday's brawl at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. "Video review will clearly show that the Armenians committed a flagrant foul," a Greek...
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Aug.21.2008
Dear Igor, Ahmed, my IT consultant, tells me that Jewish settlers are sending herds of wild pigs into Muslim East Jerusalem to terrorize the population and drive them from their homes. Is this Paranoia or Fact? Arthur Treifler Jambonia, Ohio
EDITOR OF paranoiaisfact.com, Igor Yopsvoyomatsky,...
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Jul.03.2008
A woman and her husband sat down at the table next to us, outdoors at the cafe. He was tall, dark, mild mannered. She was blond, wore glasses and chain smoked. We exchanged a few words and, though I hate smoke, before long were engaged in conversation. She asked us if we had seen the new Jewish...
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May.30.2008
Reality continues to unravel around right-wing bloggers' belief that Rachael Ray's paisley scarf was an act of pro-terrorist "hate couture." Now Gershom Gorenberg at the Huffington Post discovers that Luchina Fisher, on the ABC News website, has pinpointed the person who got the ball...
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Apr.06.2008
No politics this time, except a retelling of a political life. Jules Dassin, the director, died last week, and I keep thinking about him. Although it's only been recently that I've really begun to notice or understand him, he's been a presence in my imaginative life since I was a kid.
My...
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Feb.28.2008
GO TO
http://richards-creations.net/Pages/8/_Irena-s_Children.html
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