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Wednesday, April 19th 2023 / Wednesday, April 19th 2023

                       MEDIA-OCRITY The West Hoped Lula Would Be a Partner. He’s Got His Own Plans.:  Moriah Balingit and Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, Apr. 13, 2023 “In his first months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva has declined to join President Biden in […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) Before There Was a State:  Israel from the inside with Daniel Gordis, Substack, Apr. 17, 2023, Includes video — Tonight, in Israel and throughout the world, begins the observance of Yom HaShoah, technically called Yom Ha-Shoah ve-ha-Gevurah, which roughly translates as Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and their Bravery. […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ben Cohen Algemeiner, Apr. 17, 2023 “I kept asking myself, what did the Jews do to warrant the slaughter of six million of them, including one-and-a-half million kids?”   It was a dreary afternoon on July 30, 1897, when Ernst Bergmann, a German tourist on vacation in the spa town of Marienbad, mailed a postcard to a […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Andrew Silow-Carroll JTA, Apr. 16, 2023 “David never takes his good luck for granted — the film is organized around his suspicion that there is a missing piece to his story of survival and that, as Avi says, “He could not have done it alone.””   Holocaust documentaries tend to sit along a scale from […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dara Horn Tablet, Feb. 3, 2023 “In recent years, American Holocaust educators panicking over the deaths of the last survivors have embraced increasingly desperate tactics to reimagine Holocaust education for the future—most famously, by transforming now-dead survivors into artificial-intelligence-enabled holograms.”  Last week, an editorial in Kentucky’s Courier-Journal newspaper went viral for its sheer absurdity. In it, a group of […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Machla Abramovitz Mishpacha Magazine, July 19, 2017   “As tragic as their lives in the ghetto were Rosenzweig’ relatives and the thousands of others who perished were given a gift — most of them were brought to kever Yisrael in individually marked graves their death records intact as opposed to the horrifying fate of being […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Gil Troy WSJ, Apr. 14, 2023 “It was my good fortune to be born in this free and glorious country, where children may laugh and play and have real happiness.” Irwin envisioned “a world of liberty and justice” where “the homeless Jewish wanderers must be given the right to live the life of a free […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  “Behind this vision, as always with the radical Democrats, is power, manifested in the drive arbitrarily to control individuals [which, again, involves de facto abrogation of Constitutional guarantees—much safer than a politically-risky direct assault on the Constitution] by limiting individual liberty and due process).” – Prof. Frederick Krantz Biden EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards Spark Backlash from Auto Industry, Republicans: Nathan […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Nathan Worcester The Epoch Times, Apr. 12, 2023 “The American people won’t stand for it.”   The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed emissions standards for automobiles and trucks are raising eyebrows in the auto industry and Washington alike. “EPA’s proposed emissions plan is aggressive by any measure. By that, I mean it sets automotive electrification […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Andrew Stuttaford National Review, Jan. 19, 2023  “… like many of the religious cults it resembles, climate fundamentalism is characterized by a perpetual quest for purity.”   The more the state ‘plans,’” wrote Hayek, “the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” This may resonate with the driver of an electric vehicle (EV) who has pulled […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Jianli Yang Washington Times, Apr. 10, 2023   “… working with Chinese battery makers when the CCP is actively attempting to undercut our position globally and performing open acts of belligerence such as flying spy balloons over our sovereign territory is just as wrong.”   As a longtime China analyst and watchdog, I am gravely concerned that […]

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Sunday, April 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Frederick Krantz  Isranet, Apr. 17, 2023  The car companies brought this “backlash” against EVs on themselves, drooling over federal subsidies for electric cars. And the article omits key negative considerations—the pollution issuing from the daily need to generate—ironically, through continuing use of coal, oil, and natural gas–enough electricity to charge over 230 million electric cars; […]