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world trade center
US court orders Iran to pay $10.5 billion for alleged 9/11 role
Jewish Journal
March 11, 2016
A U.S. judge ordered Iran to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to a group of insurers.
Victims’ relatives gather 14 years after Sept. 11 attacks
Jewish Journal
September 11, 2015
Relatives assembled under overcast skies on Friday to commemorate nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington 14 years ago, when airliners hijacked by al-Qaeda militants brought death, mayhem and destruction.
Obama leads U.S. in remembrance of Sept. 11 victims
Jewish Journal
September 11, 2014
Led by President Barack Obama, Americans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City\’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
The legacy of 9/11 hero Danny Lewin
Jewish Journal
October 9, 2013
At the center of the 9/11 attacks against the United States by Islamofascist terror, an unlikely hero played a largely unknown role. He sacrificed his life in an attempt to stop the hijacking of one of the planes that later crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He was an Israeli-American and his role has remained largely ignored and unacknowledged.
Daniel Pearl Fellows: Reshaping hate
Rob Eshman
August 28, 2013
On the evening of Aug. 22, I had a public conversation with three Muslim journalists, two from Pakistan and one from Bangladesh, at the Los Angeles Press Club. All three were in the United States as Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellows, a program to introduce Muslim journalists to American practices, sponsored by the Daniel Pearl Foundation and Alfred Friendly Press Partners. Here are the three most chilling things they said:
Cleveland kidnappings: No one loves the stranger
Gina Nahai
May 15, 2013
I know what happened with those three women in Cleveland, how one man was able to imprison and torture them in the middle of a residential neighborhood for 10 years, even though he had grown children, brothers, cousins who visited the house for hours at a time. It’s not a pretty tale, but we’ve all heard it, although to a lesser degree, countless times before.
Kenneth Feinberg: The 9/11 mediator who listens
Jonah Lowenfeld
September 11, 2012
When massive tragedy strikes in the United States, when half a dozen or a score or thousands of people are killed in a single incident, when disaster hits a region, Kenneth Feinberg often gets a call.
Dennis Prager interviews New York’s ‘Ground Zero’ imam
Dennis Prager
July 24, 2012
On July 20, Jewish Journal columnist Dennis Prager conducted a lengthy interview on his radio show with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, author of “What’s Right With America,” who is best known for his plans to build an Islamic community center, including a mosque, near the World Trade Center in New York. What follows is the transcribed text of that interview.
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