In 1943, famous French-Jewish historian Jules Isaac narrowly escaped the clutches of the German...
A Doctrine of Contempt
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Fear No Evil: The Journey of Natan Sharansky
I first met Natan Sharansky in the early 1990s, when he was president of the newly formed Zionist...
She left us only this: The Forgotten Essay of Virginia Clark
We know practically nothing about her. What we do know comes from a single document written in 1947. From a family that included impressive Torah scholars, she was highly influenced by a man born and baptized a Catholic, raised for the priesthood, yet spent all his...
Forty Years in Room 373 at the UN with David Horowitz
This chapter is an excerpt from Memorie d’un cronista d’assalto (“Memories of a Crusading Journalist”) Milan, Italy: l’Ornitorinco Editori, (2016) by John Cappelli (Translation by Vanni Cappelli) Image of an old photo taken in 1966 at the Manhattan apartment of United...
The Ragman’s Son
“My father, who had been a horse trader in Russia, got himself a horse and a small wagon, and became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes… Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were...