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October 15, 2009
Europe, U.S. Standing Together on Iran
When President Obama announced at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh late last month that Iran had built a secret nuclear plant in Qom, southwest of Tehran, he was followed by a visibly angry French President Nicolas Sarkozy and an unusually harsh British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
LETTERS: October 16-22, 2009
My name is Jon Voight. I am not a Jew, but I have been a great supporter of Israel and the Jewish people.\n\nI have been to Sderot in Southern Israel, and spent time with the most heroic, amazing people, who’ve had to live with missiles attacking them, day in and day out.
Thanks, Chief
The way I see it, after a sheriff rides into town, cleans the place up, then rides off into the sunset — those townspeople better be out in the center of Main Street, waving goodbye and choking back tears.
Can We Argue Without Fighting?
If you want to ruin a Shabbat meal in my neighborhood of Pico-Robertson these days, just say one word: Obama. Within minutes, one of two things is likely to happen. If everyone around the table is anti-Obama, you’ll get a grown-up version of a verbal piñata, with people taking turns bopping the man who is “selling America and Israel down the river.”
Anne Frank gets a YouTube channel
Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who detailed her thoughts and her family\’s life while hiding in an attic from the Nazis in Amsterdam, can now be seen in rare video that has been posted on the Internet.
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