Sonny Calderon still remembers the words his outraged 8-year-old son cried out when he learned Santa Claus wasn’t real, that his father had been perpetuating a myth: “I hate you, and I hate the way your farts smell.”
Alan Gross, a 65-year-old U.S. foreign aid worker freed from a Cuban prison on Wednesday, was arrested in Cuba in 2009 and sentenced to 15 years for importing banned technology and trying to establish clandestine Internet service for Cuban Jews.
Howard Banchik will tell you there’s a lot more to music and learning to play an instrument than meets the ears.\n
Mehran Khan, a mild-mannered 14-year-old survivor of this week\’s massacre at a Pakistani school, says he will not rest until the meaningless deaths of his classmates have been avenged.
Alan Gross was freed from a Cuban prison on Wednesday following five years of brutal captivity — a prisoner exchange deal between Cuba and the United States resulted in his release — and on Wednesday, among his first order of business was wishing America \”Chag Sameach.”\nThe appearance, the freed Cuban prisoner’s first press conference since his arrival back home on Wednesday, included numerous Jewish references as Gross stood before reporters, and his wife, Judy, stood at his side. He was missing several teeth.\n\n
Yes, finally a prominent voice from the Jewish community has spoken truth to fact (“Why Jews Still Back Obama,” Dec. 12). Kudos to Rob Eshman for stating facts, and not falling for the loud, anti-Obama voices on the right.
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