Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A Word from Daniel Pearl's Father
Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror? By JUDEA PEARL This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of our son, former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. My wife Ruth and I wonder: Would Danny have believed that today's world emerged after his tragedy. The answer does not come easily. Danny was an optimist, a true believer in the goodness of mankind. Yet he was also a realist, and would not let idealism bend the...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
From My Newspaper Column; Najam Sheraz
Mix together the sexy charisma of Tom Jones, the earnest crooning of Yanni, the peacenik strivings of John Lennon, throw in a little Praise the Lord, add clear-eyed tackling of taboo social issues and you’ve got Pakistani singing star, Najam Sheraz. Why am I writing about this Muslim guy in my Jewish column, you might ask? Because, frankly, for the moment, at least, I’m really tired of death and destruction, racial slurs and hatred. So for now I’d like to focus on something good; and in this...
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Monday, February 2, 2009
A Moving Music Video
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BESA: Arabic for "keeping one's word"
BESA is the title of a new book by Norman Gershman. The full title reads, BESA: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II," and recounts the Albanians who committed themselves to saving the lives of 2,000 Albanian Jews persecuted by Nazis. Nearly 60 black and white photographs depict the heroism of the Muslims who rescued Jews and the pride of their descendants. In an interview, the family of Ali Kraja said, "we sheltered the Adixhes family out of the goodness of our hearts. We are all brothers and...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
It's Not All in My Head
Last week, I wrote about my summer in Israel in 1975, when during a weekend trip to Jerusalem, I stepped over a small refrigerator that had been cast out on the sidewalk in Zion Square. Ten minutes later, while I was exchanging money in a bank a few blocks away, I felt a percussive blast, then watched as mayhem ensued outside; there were sirens, people running, blood everywhere. It was a nightmare. That refrigerator bomb, claimed by the PLO, killed nearly two dozen people, most of them Arab...
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