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Iran To Build 10 New Enrichment Sites, What’s Proper Response?
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Brad Hirschfield
As Iran announced the construction of 10 new enrichment facilities, each to be at least as large as the current one at Natanz, the magnitude of the “Iran problem” has been significantly ratcheted up. How should the world respond? I have no problem with questions having many possible answers, but when all of them are…
One year after Mumbai Attacks – Time for the Unveiling
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Brad Hirschfield
It takes time to recover, if that is even the right word, from any loss, and even more so when the loss is a violent one. That is one reason why Jewish tradition, at least as practiced in most communities, holds off a year before placing a marker at the grave of the departed. It…
200,000 Animals Die in Mass Sacrifice to Hindu Goddess and A Healing Tip From Nepal
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Brad Hirschfield
BARIYAPUR, Nepal (AP) — The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo calves by hacking off their heads. Over two days, 200,000 buffaloes, goats,…
A Modern Thanksgiving Story That Inspires
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Brad Hirschfield
The story of Goudchaux’s department store is nothing less than a modern Thanksgiving story, and it’s just about as inspiring. Like the original, it tells of refugees fleeing their homes and building new lives in a new land. Like the first pilgrims, they encountered a range of challenges they could not have foreseen, allies they…
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