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Holocaust Remembrance Day has become a meaningless ritual that the Western world engages in to cover for its virulent and rising anti-Semitism. I remember the Holocaust every day. It’s written into my DNA. Every morning, when I put on my glasses or creak out of bed on my arthritic knees,
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The American college has lost its way. Saving it requires removing all taxpayer funds and refocusing the mission on high-level, job-based skills. (If you prefer listening over reading, the companion podcast to this post is embedded below, or you can listen to it at Libsyn or at Apple podcasts. I’m trying to make
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What is it that we are remembering on Holocaust Remembrance Day? Is is just a day of mourning, or is it a warning as well? I am sure there is not a one of us unaware of slaughter of the seven million innocent Jews and several million other undesirables by
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Five years ago, I reported that the Left was erasing Anne Frank’s Jewishness. Since then, the Left has begun using her to support Israel’s destruction. This is a post that started back in 2013, when I visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam for the first time in 23 years.
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Hurricanes are normal, but Trump Derangement Syndrome obscures that fact. Of course, those subject to TDS are deranged in other ways as well. Just look…. Before I get to the meat of this post — or, because it’s a round-up, the various meats of this post — I want to
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This Bookworm Beat has all shades of Progressive insanity (fake data, attacks on free speech, Chelseamania), complete with links and my trenchant comments. Keep circling that drain. Before I get into the meat of this post detailing the worst emanations from the Democrats and their fellow travelers on their Left,
Continue readingI know I mangled the Latin saying “Media vita in morte sumus” (in the midst of life we are in death), but this story is a wonderful reminder that, in the midst of death, there is life — and very, very long life: Guinness World Records can today confirm that
Continue readingBeginning on September 11, 2001, and with increasing speed since January 2009, I’ve had a very strong sense that the world — not just America, but the whole world — is unraveling. At home, venerable and often cherished institutions and ideas are falling into disrepair or being perverted beyond all
Continue readingI sincerely hope this Facebook embed code works. If it doesn’t, go here to read an incredible story of faith and survival in Dachau: Rabbi Yosef Wallis, director of Arachim of Israel, talks to Project Witness about his father, Judah Wallis, who was born… Posted by Dani Rakoff on Tuesday, February
Continue readingInspired by Marie Kondo’s advice that true organization begins with throwing out everything that is neither useful nor sentimental, I am continuing to plow through every nook and cranny in my house. This is the first organization system that’s made sense to me, which is why I haven’t already given
Continue readingAt the end of 1945, my mother, who spent the war years in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia, was repatriated to her former home in Palestine at the end of 1945. (Her story is here.) Once her health recovered, she joined the Haganah and was assigned the job of
Continue readingI’m doing something that’s a little more fun than the legal work that usually comes my way: I’m working on a project for Fleet Week to help welcome sailors and marines to our fair City. My work is editorial, which suits me to a “T.” I haven’t been ignoring the
Continue readingI should be heading for bed, as it’s after midnight, but I’m so thrilled to have a moment to myself that I can’t resist a little blogging. I’m feeling especially smug (and tired) tonight because my heroic 1:30 a.m. efforts yesterday were the difference between success and ignominious failure on
Continue readingIt’s already over in Israel, but today, in California, it’s still Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). In Israel, it’s a very serious occasion indeed. As the video below shows, a siren blows its sad, eerie sound for two minutes, and everything in Israel comes to a halt as the Israelis take
Continue readingHitler loved Islam.* If you didn’t know that he loved Islam, you might think that Hitler, with his race-based obsessions, would have been hostile to a religion primarily centered on a Semitic people. To Hitler, though, Islam was a manly religion that shared his goals: the eradication of the Jews coupled with world domination.
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