Many American Jews seem to think that they will always be safe in America and that they therefore have no need of Israel. I hope they are right but I fear that they are wrong. American tolerance and British tolerance are basically the same beast of the same ancestry so as one goes so should [...]

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It was the usual lively program. With it being the height of the vacation season we were down a couple of panel members. The panel consisted of Jan and Simon Barrett, investigator and bail bondsman William Cobra Staubs, crime writer and investigative journalist Denny Griffin, and reporter Dave Knechel. Our first segment concerned the ongoing [...]

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Director Mike Hodges had no idea his first film would be such a success. Adapting Ted Lewis’s book “Jack’s Return Home,” Hodges wrote the script, cast the actors, found the crew and locations, filmed and edited the movie in only eight months. But the movie became an instant success, with Michael Caine as the titular [...]

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Does anybody reading this know what “USSR” represents? I doubt that younger readers do, such is the state of modern education — but no doubt some of my older readers recognize it as the name of the old Soviet Union — centred on Russia. But what does “USSR” actually stand for? Now we’re getting tricky! [...]

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When is guilt bad; when is guilt good?  When is it a normal, healthy emotion and when is it harmful?  Most people try to answer these questions the wrong way.  And they forgot to consider how bullies try to use our guilt to harass and abuse us.  Most people analyze whether the guilt we feel [...]

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