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Monday, December 11, 2017
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CONFESSION
Generally I don't make a habit of confessing privately and certainly not publicly. Therefore I'll forgo identifying myself other than to say that even those of us who do the Lord's work full time also make mistakes.
I have been reading Jewish World Review (JWR) for nearly as long as it has published. I benefit from its wisdom, am empowered by its message. I was touched by Mr. Jolkovsky's revealing what motivates a Jewish site to so often defend the rights of Christendom. Not only does JWR graciously offer a soapbox to Jewish voices defending us, it also serves as a virtual pulpit for Christians to raise consciousness about our own issues.
Mr. Jolkovsky mentioned the case involving Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, now before the Supreme Court. JWR has also reported widely on the attacks on people of faith -- faiths other than Judaism -- worldwide. Whether it be murderous rampages against Christians in Syria or Copts in Egypt, those goings-on, too, are Reviewed and are a part of his Jewish World. The fact that a widely read Jewish publication raises its voice on these issues when so few others have, should be acknowledged and cherished.
If that were not enough, before Jewish holy festivals, Mr. Jolkovsky, who suspends publication to observe them, goes out of his way to provide a truncated version of JWR for non-Jews.
My sin, if you will? It is that in all of these years I have never once offered any support to help JWR ease the burden of sustaining a source of enlightenment to the world and immense pleasure to myself and so, so many others.
I find solace in assuming that I'm not alone in this matter. However, I'm not excused for my inaction.
Dear Christian brothers and sisters, a Godly man is asking for your assistance. No, he's not of our faith, but he is of our cloth. He girds us and he fights our battles. There aren't many like him. He deserves our help. Let's help him!
[Editor's note: WOW! That's all I can say.]
All expressions of kindness and gratitude are tax-deductible. They can be made through our secure online site or by making out a check and
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Keren Yehoshua V'Yisroel/JWR
In gratitude and friendship,
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[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1792, France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.)
• 1894, the world's first auto show, the Exposition Internationale de Velocipidie et de Locomotion Automobile, opened in Paris, France. Four makes of automobiles were on display
• 1928, police in Buenos Aires, Argentina, announced they had thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover
• 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson
• 1937, Italy withdrew from the League of Nations
• 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind. AND: Buick lowered its prices after spare tires on new cars were outlawed due widespread shortages caused by World War II
• 1961, the ferry carrier, USNS Core, arrives in Saigon with the first U.S. helicopter unit. This contingent included 33 Vertol H-21C Shawnee helicopters and 400 air and ground crewmen to operate and maintain them. Their assignment was to airlift South Vietnamese Army troops into combat
• 1985, Hugh Scrutton is killed in his computer store in Sacramento, California, by a mail package that explodes in his hands. By the time he was finally apprehended, the "Unabomber"-- so named because his earliest attacks were directed at universities -- had been responsible for the deaths of 3 people and the injuries of 23 others
• 1991, a jury in West Palm Beach, Fla., acquitted William Kennedy Smith, rejecting the allegations of Patricia Bowman
• 1994, in the largest Russian military offensive since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks pour into the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya
• 1998, majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over Democratic objections. The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the red planet. (However, the probe disappeared in September 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values).
• 2001, in the first criminal indictment stemming from Sept. 11, federal prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings
• 2003, U.S. health officials reported an early flu outbreak had hit all 50 states and was widespread in 24. A German court freed a Moroccan accused of supporting the Sept. 11 al-Qaida cell in Hamburg, saying there was new evidence he did not know about the plot. AND: A new second home for the National Air and Space Museum opened in Chantilly, Va., some 28 miles west of the original's home in Washington, D.C.
• 2006, Jewish groups worldwide expressed anger as Iran opened a two-day conference in Tehran to determine if the Holocaust was reality or myth
• 2008, Bernard Madoff, an investment manager, was charged with defrauding clients of up to $50 billion in what may have been the largest swindle in Wall Street history. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials said he ran a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. ALSO: The remains of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony were found six months after she disappeared. (Her mother, Casey Anthony, was acquitted of murder in her daughter's death.)
• 2009, Tiger Woods, acknowledging the pain his "infidelity" caused others, announced he was taking an "indefinite break" from pro golf to focus on his family
• 2010, police said Mark Madoff, the 46-year-old eldest son of convicted multibillion-dollar Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, hanged himself in his New York apartment on the second anniversary of his father's arrest
• 2012, in an act the White House called "highly provocative," North Korea used a long-range rocket to launch a satellite into orbit
[ I N S I G H T ]
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• Fusion GPS tried to tie Trump to Clinton's pedophile pal Epstein as part of smear campaign
Virginia Postrel: The death of the shoe salesman is long overdue
Glenn Reynolds: What happens when police fail
Erik Wemple: CNN lands huge scoop on Donald Trump Jr. Moments later, it collapses
Gary Abernathy: Abandon Trump? Oh, absolutely not now!
Hugh Hewitt: GOP, free the . . . nest egg
Debra J. Saunders: How Does a First-Year National Monument Become an Institution? It's the Obama Touch
Ed O'Keefe & David Weigel: Despite recent wins, Dems remain divided about what they stand for
Anne Applebaum: Brexit has brought the Irish problem back
Bruce Bialosky: I Am Not the Racist; They Are
George Will: Can Congress rein in 'fire and fury'?
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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