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  • Ask anyone if they can imagine a world without nuclear weapons, and as polls indicate, most will say they can. This is true even in countries that possess nuclear weapons according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons or ICAN, a new civil society initiative dedicated to the hope of a nuclear free world.

    However, governments that possess nuclear weapons send a different signal. Their policies and expenditures say that "well...perhaps someday...but certainly not in our lifetimes."

  • Editor's note: In light of this week's effort by the Palestinian Authority to gain statehood through the United Nations, we publish again this insightful 2006 article from the founder of the Sephardic Heritage Center, an organization devoted to preserving and promoting the history and accomplishments of Sephardic Jews.

  • Just about everyone can remember where they were the morning of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed. As New York Conference Minister, I was scheduled to preach in New York City the following Sunday. Since all of the United States was a no-fly zone, I took the long drive through the Catskills. Needless to say the drive gave me plenty of time to think.

  • Americans experienced the first large non-domestic terrorist attack on our own soil on Sept. 11, 2001, a reality that is far too much a present and continuing reality in other parts of the world. We joined that reality in 2001. Many people died senselessly that day, and many still grieve their loss.