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My reward for Peter’s last-semester class in Hitler and Stalin (in-depth WWII studies) is this semester’s class on Churchill. So nice not to have to watch the development of mass-murderers from childhood on up. Instead of watching as Stalin has all his best friends killed and Hitler grabs for power, I watch the life of … Continue reading Churchill this semester
Click the link to read it all… Faith in the Path of the Tsunami | Chabad.org Ten minutes after the disaster hit, my phone started ringing. It’s been ringing ever since, 24 hours a day. Husbands looking for wives. Mothers looking for daughters. Friends looking for their traveling companions.
From Big Pharaoh at Hello From the land of the Pharaohs Egypt: My friends are innocent. They are victims of a crazy media that publishes endless Abu Ghraib pictures yet treat those 2 Iraqi heroes who gave up their lives on Haifa street as 2 street cats that got crushed by a speedy car in … Continue reading A thought-provoking conversation
I called my family this morning from the pay phone down the hall, amidst a couple of curious looks from the more strict Shabbat observers, but it seems to be fairly well-known that I am the token goy, so I am cut a bit of slack. It feels so little like Christmas, and that has … Continue reading Shabbat Vayechi, 13 Tevet, 5765 (Christmas Day)
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