The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed its 30 millionth visitor this week.\n\nEstelle Laughlin, a Holocaust survivor and museum volunteer, reflected on the
NEW YORK – For many students, political passion is an essential part of the college experience. But, when such passion makes one feel that possessing “truth” justifies silencing others, we are no longer talking about education, but perverted political sport.\n\nWhen Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., attempted to deliver a speech last month at the University of California in Irvine, he was disrupted by anti-Israel hecklers. Eleven students were removed from the hall, arrested and told that they might be disciplined.\n
This week, New York City\’s Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.\n
\”None of the nearly $1 million set aside to tackle sex abuse in New York\’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities has been spent, even as another program set up to help scrambles for cash.\”\n
Brandeis University\’s Muslim chaplain issued an appeal for the return of his Koran days after his campus office was vandalized.\n\nTalal Eid said the volume contained two years worth of sermon notes and that its theft is \”what keeps me upset,\” the Daily News Tribune reported.
In January 2009, Rep. Waxman became the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. From 1979 to 1994, he chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee\’s Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, and served as the Subcommittee\’s Ranking Member in 1995 and 1996
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