Monthly Archives: May 2011
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
It is a way of life that is absolutely foreign to our times. Its value is as difficult to discern as it is to know where piety ends and obsession begins. If it is a goal to be sought it … Continue reading
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How World War II came to America – two titles by way of explanation.
World War II did not start for America on December 7, 1941. In 1938 Roosevelt’s party lost 72 seats in the House and 7 seats in the Senate which still stands as the record for House seat losses by a … Continue reading
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The victors were not the looters, nor were they the conquerors and maybe that is one of the reasons Memorial Day should be a Sacred day.
As Memorial Day approaches we once again reflect on the brave men and women who serve under the American flag. There are no Elgin Marbles in America, there is no treasure looted from the homes of those sent to concentration … Continue reading
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Just because Harold Camping doesn’t know the date – a neither does anybody else – does not mean that the heavens and the earth will not pass away.
There is really not too much difference between the “prophecies” of Harold Camping and Soko Asahara and modern cosmologists who speak with all of the authority[sic] of modern science. The most notable difference is the immediacy of the former – … Continue reading
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What you save is, later, like something found.
Outwitting history : the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books Aaron Lansky Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004 Yiddish language Revival, National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) History Hardcover. 1st and printing. … Continue reading
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