The musical explores the courage, conviction, and personal sacrifice of leaders and extraordinary “ordinary” Americans who put everything on the line to attain freedom.
Pope Leo is demonstrating that moral leadership requires more than prayer and polite statements; it demands the courage to call out wrongdoing, regardless of political risk.
For 78 years, Palestinians have not recognized the road to peace and prosperity that Japan and Germany followed after they were defeated in WWII. Those countries were rebuilt and today are among the world’s strongest economies.
Good for Mr. Perry for sharing Melville's quote, by way of characterizing his epic Clarel, "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
In addition to all your holiday favorites—cookies, candies, cakes, pies, stollen, fruitcake, marmalade, etc.—there will be prepared soups and pulled pork for a ready-to-go lunch or dinner.
Israel’s actions, however one chooses to spin the debate, are not the acts of a genocidal state but of a democracy responding to a movement that openly declares its goal to annihilate it.
Now that we have made it beyond Thanksgiving, we must ensure that the new year improves the safety net. Congress has until the end of January to pass a budget for fiscal year 2026 and fix this situation.
Britain's assignment in 1920 of political power in Palestine to the then-10 percent Jewish minority over the remaining non-Jewish 90 percent violated the principle of self-determination established by the League of Nations for such mandates.
Fortunately there is an articulate, energetic replacement on the scene. Jeromie Whalen of South Hadley has been in the Berkshires more in the last couple of months than Neal has been in the last couple of years.
