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The HBO special 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus is a magnificently produced and beautifully edited documentary. Steve Pressman has creatively reworked, for a commercial network, his 2010 film To Save a Life, about his wife’s grandparents, a privileged Philadelphia Jewish couple who did the impossible and sought no recognition for their incredible heroism. 50 Children tells its main story with passion, clarity, precision, and justifiable pride. The Krauses are an inspiration; Steven Pressman is a worthy steward of his family’s legacy.

Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a well-off and highly assimilated Jewish couple from Philadelphia with two school-age children of their own, went to Vienna by themselves after Hitler’s annexation of Austria, rescued 50 Jewish children, and took them home to Philadelphia. The HBO documentary tells their story through photographs, old newsreels, and archival materials, supplemented by taped interviews with some of their descendants. What emerges is a compelling but strangely incomplete story.

For one thing, the film says nothing about the Krauses’ earlier religious life and leaves the impression that they really didn’t have one. But in fact, Gilbert Kraus was confirmed at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in 1913. The synagogue’s rabbi, Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, preached a message of “rescue” from the Jewish slums of the City of Brotherly Love. Following a daring trip to Czarist Russia and a conversation with Leo Tolstoy, Krauskopf created the Farm School (today the Delaware Valley College) to help poor children. Gilbert Kraus heard his rabbi’s benevolent message throughout his youth and from the pulpit at his confirmation. And we hear Eleanor, in the course of the film, recall how she fervently prayed that God would be with the parents of the children entrusted to her and her husband.

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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/from-little-acorns-will-grow-a-mighty-government-bureaucracy-the-tree-gap?f=puball Today’s radical egalitarians are a devious and relentless bunch. Their strategy starts with uncovering a “troubling inequality” and once found, they demand that government close the “unfair” gap. Discovery by discovery, program by program, radical egalitarians create bloated tax-eating government bureaucracies inimical to freedom. Combating this egalitarian game requires being alert to the seemingly […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arlene-kushner/the-arab-leagues-peace-process-deception/print/ The Times of Israel has the following headline this morning: “In sea change, Arab League backs land swaps in peace talks.” A sea change is defined as a marked change or a transformation.  But what we’re looking at here is nothing of the sort. Members of the Arab League, representing seven Arab nations, met with […]

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The FBI’s Most Wanted (Islamic) Terrorists List

In the wake of the horrific Boston Marathon bombing, media, politicians and left-wing commentators have gone to extraordinary lengths to opine on every possible motive and affiliation of the terrorists responsible — every motive except Jihad. Yet as the FBI’s official “Most Wanted Terrorists” list glaringly illustrates, there is no mystery behind the agenda of those compelled to commit mass atrocities against American citizens. View the list yourself, and see if you can discern the common denominator:

The FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists.

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This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by actor Dwight Schultz, (DwightSchultzFansite.nl), Ann-Marie Murrell, the National Director of PolitiChicks.tv and Nonie Darwish, the author of The Devil We Don’t Know.

The Gang gathered to discuss How American Media Follows The Islamist Media. The guests reflected on who is left to tell the truth about Islamic Jihad. The discussion occurred in the context of the Boston Marathon Massacre and how the Left has made us vulnerable to Islamic terrorist attacks due to its Jihad Denial. The panel focused in on How Terrorism Operates on the Psyche of Nations and analyzed how 9/11 traumatized Americans so badly that it made them submissive to Islam.

The Gang also focused on: Why Eric Holder Shut The Mouth of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, unveiling what the Obama administration doesn’t want you to know about the Jihad in Boston. The dialogue involved one of the key issues: The Words Banned By Obama; on this theme, the guests shed light on how we can possibly defend ourselves from Jihad if we are not even allowed to say its name.

Watch both parts of the two part series below:

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/bill-ayers-fan-stages-fake-rape-threat-against-herself-to-protest-rape-culture/print/ Meg Lanker-Simons once fought to bring Bill Ayers to speak on campus, but I suspect the WU bigwig would be underwhelmed by the scope of her criminal ambition which consisted of faking a rape threat against herself from a Republican and then staging rallies to protest “Rape Culture”. This was the scene on April […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/hating-the-flag/print/ Every year on May 17, Norway celebrates Constitution Day. In towns across the country, folks in traditional costumes walk around with little (or not so little) Norwegian flags. In Oslo, the royal family stands on the palace balcony for hours while thousands of schoolchildren march by, dipping their tiny flags in respect as they […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/bloombergs-banana-republic/ Spring is in the air, which in New York means that it’s time to launch the bike-share program. The bike-share program, which stacks racks of bikes out in the street in the hope that everyone will stop driving cars and rent bikes instead, failed in Paris, Melbourne and Montreal. But Mr. Bloomberg is not […]

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THE SPECIAL ELECTION IN MASSACHUSSETTS: GABRIEL GOMEZ (R) VS MARKEY (D) : KATRINA TRINKO

The best advantage Gabriel Gomez has in the Senate race in Massachusetts is timing.

After Scott Brown’s loss to Elizabeth Warren last fall, few Republicans in Massachusetts hold much hope that a Republican candidate could emerge the winner in a regular election, particularly one that coincides with a presidential election. But the June 25 special election — in which turnout will likely be low — is a different matter.

“Any time a Republican runs for statewide office, it’s an uphill climb, but they have better chances in off-year elections and in special elections than they do in presidential years,” says Ryan Williams, a GOP consultant who worked for Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. “It is virtually impossible as a Republican to win statewide office during a presidential year, given the turnout.”
There is no doubt that Gomez, who won the GOP primary Tuesday, is the underdog. His Democratic rival, 20-term congressman Ed Markey, raised significantly more money than Gomez did and has the advantage in blue Massachusetts. Markey received more votes in the Democratic primary than did all the candidates on the Republican side. Republicans are clear-eyed about the formidable numbers. “We have to win probably 60 to 70 percent of independents, and we have to win 10 to 20 percent of the Democrats,” estimates Brad Dayspring, communications director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

But Republicans are hoping that Gomez can pull off a surprise victory. Eric Fehrnstrom, who advises a super PAC backing Gomez, describes the race as “between Ed Markey, who’s a government insider who’s never really had a job outside of politics, and Gabriel Gomez, a fresh-faced reformer with a compelling personal story and a plan to change Washington.” In Fehrnstrom’s mind, Gomez’s private-sector background (he is a private-equity investor) and military past (he was a Navy SEAL) may help give him an edge on economic and national-security issues, with the latter being fresh in voters’ minds after the bombing at the Boston Marathon.