Posted in Media, Personal Notes on Apr 27th, 2007
Sorry about yesterday’s deafening silence. My Little sister is home from the hospital, and she needed her older brother to play chauffeur and maid and food heater and…
However, I was paid a great accolade. My sister told mom that I should be called ‘the baby whisperer’. Maybe it’s just that I love Little things and Little things love [...]
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Posted in Hitler, Islam, Nazi Germany, Terrorism on Apr 25th, 2007
Carol just sent me an email with an interesting article written by Paul Marek, who writes a blog here:
http://cjunk.blogspot.com/
Anyway, the article that is interesting is this one:
http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html
It’s a bit more than a year old, but absolutely timeless. I’ll give you a couple paragraphs from his blog entry, and ask you to go and read the [...]
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Posted in America, Society, Terrorism on Apr 24th, 2007
I’ve been listening to the radio a lot. In fact, it’s second only to print as my favorite source of news.
Hardly a day has goes by without something about the Virginia Tech shootings, and I’ve been letting all this wash over me – ruminating, thinking.
I just can’t help comparing recent events to my experience in Israel. I’ve [...]
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Posted in History, Hitler, Holocaust, Peace on Apr 19th, 2007
I have been contemplating evil. I think that anyone remembering the Holocaust, and watching the news about the Virginia Tech shootings will be contemplating such things.
We have a lot of descriptions of Evil, and every person has their own private definition. But, none of those descriptions really reach the heart of what Evil is – [...]
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Posted in America, Europe, History, Media on Apr 18th, 2007
A friend of mine, Krina, sent this to me on Holocaust Memorial Day:
Schools drop Holocaust lessons to avoid offence
by Alexandra Frean
Teachers are dropping controversial subjects such as the Holocaust and the Crusades from history lessons because they do not want to cause offence to children from certain races or religions, a report claims.
A lack of [...]
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