What is unfolding in Minnesota cannot be understood without first confronting a difficult truth: some cultures arrive intact. They do not dissolve on contact with modern society, nor do they gently adapt - they replicate.
Read all of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's essay in The American Mind.
Kurt Harden of Cultural Offering scoffs at danger as he hand-shovels a drive-way and prepares to tackle the front walk.
Extreme cold is expected in his area tomorrow.
On the other hand, the low in Phoenix tomorrow is expected to be 46 degrees.
Our high will be 74.
Sweater weather.
Prohuman Foundation President Bion Bartning on the importance of Holocaust remembrance. An excerpt:
For years, Holocaust education relied on proximity. My children have been fortunate. Their teachers brought Holocaust survivors into the classroom; men and women who spoke plainly about what they endured. When a survivor speaks, history stops feeling theoretical. You can see it happen: the shift from “this happened” to “this happened to someone.”
They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname. He was the jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer, a shtibl. The Jews of Sighet - the little town in Transylvania where I spent my childhood - were fond of him. He was poor and lived in utter penury. As a rule, our townspeople, while they did help the needy, did not particularly like them. Moishe the Beadle was the exception. He stayed out of people's way. His presence bothered no one. He had mastered the art of rendering himself insignificant, invisible.
- From Night by Elie Wiesel
