Masab Youssef, the 30-year-old son of a top Hamas operative in the West Bank, spoke to Ha’aretz today about his conversion to Christianity, his respect for Israel, and his conviction that political organizations guided by Islam never will make peace with the Jewish State. Masab’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Critical Care Medicine, the journal for intensive care doctors, has published a study (no link available) of the Texas futile care law (Crit Care Med 2007 Vol. 35, No. 5), which allows hospital ethics committees to order unilateral termination of life-sustaining treatment, and only gives patient . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrey Rublev, an early fifteenth-century monk in Moscow, is considered by many to be the best Russian icon painter . His work was recently pointed out to me by a young Hungarian woman, who has spent a good bit of time in Russia. Kati writes: “I cannot tell how and why, but somehow it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s New York Sun reviews a fascinating book by Tim Tzouliadis that catalogs some of the forgotten casualties of the Communism. (I found the review on Arts & Letters Daily .) The Forsaken tells the story of Americans who moved to the USSR to help complete the “building of . . . . Continue Reading »
The old C.C.C. buildings from the 1930s are more than a little run down, but they are what gives the place its tone and shape—at least, as I remember the Black Hills Playhouse when I was young. A sort of summer stock theater, run out of the University of South Dakota’s theater department . . . . Continue Reading »
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