It is impossible for me to look at images of the double-decker bus blown apart in last week\’s terror attacks in London and not think of Bus No. 37.\n\nBus No. 37 was the mangled hulk of an Israeli bus that activist brothers Ed and Bernie Massey sent on a tour in November 2003, as part of traveling exhibit on terror.
As if mocking the scenes of jubilation at London\’s successful 2012 Olympics bid, the terrorist explosions that came the next day left devastation in their wake.
\”Annulla: An Autobiography\” tells the story of Annulla Allen, a woman born in Lvov, Galicia, who survived the Holocaust by passing as Aryan, and eventually immigrated to London.
It\’s official. The Kabbalah Centre has usurped the Church of Scientology\’s status as Hollywood\’s hottest creed of choice. These days, it seems like every celeb looking to add meaning to his or her glittering but empty life of fame and fortune is joining the red-string-wearing, holy-water-selling, quasi-Jewish group.
\”I have developed a habit when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it,\” Richard Ingrams wrote in his July 13 column.
Now I understood why Reuven was able to bring me into the neighborhood, into his home, into his shul, invite people to meet me, and then into his yeshiva. No one would question the actions of an ilui. I further understood his ability to teach me, to move so adroitly into the issues of my world and professional endeavors while we were in London.
My relationship with Reuven has continued to grow through further visits, meals with my wife and his wife, and through study. He has brought me as his study partner into all the great yeshivas of Jerusalem. He wants me to see them all.
David Irving told the High Court in London this week that some of the world\’s largest Jewish organizations are involved in an international conspiracy against him.
\”To put it bluntly,\” Richard Rampton, who is defending Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt against David Irving, told the judge Tuesday, \”he is a liar.\”
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