O ne muggy afternoon in June 2010, Don Heathfield and his wife, Ann, were relaxing over a bottle of champagne with their two sons, Tim and Alex, when they heard a loud knocking at the door. The family...
04.20.2025 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesIt was in the cards that Mike Huckabee, who a week ago was confirmed as US ambassador to Israel – despite the fact that, with only one exception, all Democrats voted against him – would be feted at th...
04.16.2025 Jpost.comFalling out of love is a reality none of us really like to face, but it is a reality that happens nonetheless. Sometimes relationships just don’t work out and partnerships end, even when they once see...
04.16.2025 Yourtango.comYom HaShoah, which falls this Thursday, is not merely a date on the Jewish calendar. It is a sacred rupture in time—a moment when the collective soul of a people pauses to scream, weep, and remember. ...
04.22.2025 Timesofisrael.comAfter moving from New York City to Tel Aviv, I can state with confidence that Tel Aviv is the more transient sister. I’ve come to think of this hedonistic heaven as an airport with a beach. “A college campus with a beach” was a close contender, but colleges have more structure. Between the sounds of construction, you hear luggage wheels struggle across the narrow, uneven sidewalks. I’ll run into a friend of a friend I haven’t seen in a year and ask, “do you still live here or are you visiting? ”...
04.17.2025 Timesofisrael.comArmInfo . The collective commemoration of the holy martyrs of the Armenian Genocide is under threat due to the unprecedented moral decline of the Armenian leadership. This was written on his Facebook ...
04.21.2025 Arminfo.infoIf you’re a reader, a student of history, or a writer, it’s been appalling to watch book bans proliferate across the nation. As The Reformer reported last month, St. Francis High School and Independen...
04.21.2025 Minnesotareformer.comThis story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. The preamble for the next war over water is here. Aggressive corporations are coming after th...
04.21.2025 Commondreams.org36 At the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Elie Wiesel – author, Nobel Laureate, survivor – is seen on the second row up near the man standing. April 16, 1945. Photo by Harry Miller/U. S. ...
04.21.2025 Archynewsy.comWatch enough episodes of Behind The Music and you quickly learn that terrible things can happen when a band goes on tour. But I must’ve missed the episode in which a band’s tour go awry because of creatures from Irish folklore. In the following email...
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