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Giving Generations of Sephardim a Chance at Higher Education
April 11, 2007
April 11, 2007
During the early 1970s, Nina Weiner realized that if she were going to help Israeli Sephardim – Jews whose ancestors had immigrated to Israel from the Arab world, Asia and Africa – she would have to think outside the...
Maybe God Has a Purpose for Me Here
March 22, 2007
Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 9:02 AM
When Bizu Riki Mullu was a girl, the people of her village of Mauri, in northern Ethiopia, would come out in January and sing to the storks crossing the sky. “The villagers knew the birds came...
Helping Mexican Immigrants Find Dignity — and a Better Life
March 3, 2007
March 3, 2007
Joel Magallan
Former Brother Joel Magallan has headed the Association Tepeyac for 11 years.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is an icon of dignity,” says Joel Magallán, the head of the Asociación Tepeyac de New York,...
‘It Was Skin and Bones’: Soldiers Remember Auschwitz
January 17, 2007
January 17, 2007
When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable.
Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of...
Liberal Iraqis
December 7, 2006
I read with great interest William Tucker’s Tuesday column in which he discussed my recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about democracy in Iraq and specifically Mithal al-Alusi, a liberal member of the Iraqi Parliament.
In Mr....
My Country Needs Me
November 1, 2006
November 1, 2006
With the midterm elections fast approaching, the panic over Iraq seems more intense than ever. That country, the thinking goes, is a hopeless mess, and there could be a precipitous American withdrawal, especially if the...
Chavez Held Up Mirror to Liberals
October 2, 2006
As offensive as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s recent anti-Bush tirade at the United Nations was, his calling President Bush “the devil” was a lot less offensive than modern American liberals who attack our...
Building Hope
September 18, 2006
September 18, 2006
The dwelling had no electricity, no windows, no heat and little furniture. Inside were a mother, six children and a crippled father. Garo Armen remembers using the light of a camera’s flash to catch glimpses of the...
Marching For Freedom: Ex-slave Simon Deng Plans New Walk to Spotlight Sudan’s Plight
August 31, 2006
August 31, 2006
It was “desperation” to raise awareness about the plight of black Africans in his native land of Sudan, Simon Deng says, that prompted the Harlem resident to walk the 300 miles from the United Nations to...
Taking Courage
June 5, 2006
Monday, June 5th, 2006
“When I lost my arm, I thought, ‘That’s the end of my life,'” says Muctar Jalloh.
“My goals had been to attend school and to write. Sometimes I would think, ‘I don’t think it...