Profiles
King Tut resurrected: A comic legend comes west
November 2, 2011
In advance of her November 4 performance at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater, the indefatigable Joan Rivers made time to speak with JTNews about her two TV shows, memories of her Jewish grandmothers, and how to stay forever young at...
Ari Fleischer comes to New Jersey: Former White House press secretary dishes on Bush, Obama, Israel
June 3, 2011
Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary, is coming to speak June 12 as part of an effort by the Republican Jewish Coalition to ramp up its outreach in New Jersey in advance of the 2012 election (see sidebar). The event, “A...
Former NYC detective, counter-terror liaison has worked to protect the innocent: Mordechai Dzikansky to discuss lessons learned
May 15, 2011
From using “Jewish guilt” to interrogate criminals to reporting to the New York Police Department from the scene of suicide bombings in Israel, Mordechai Dzikansky’s career has been unique.
“You have to be unconventional and you have...
Obama administration acted appropriately
May 7, 2011
This week, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, the United States assassinated the terrorist Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans, including 700 from New Jersey....
Simon Deng: The Walk for Freedom for South Sudan
January 8, 2011
On Sunday, January 9th, 2011, the people of Southern Sudan – Christians and animists, or practitioners of native faiths – will have the chance to vote to form an independent nation. The election was stipulated in a 2005 Comprehensive Peace...
Simon Deng: ‘No More Enslavement… Islamization, and No More Arabization’ For South
December 29, 2010
Note: On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation. In a prior interview with Big...
Simon Deng: Christians Prepare for Independence in Sudan, the Frontline of the War on Terror
December 28, 2010
On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation.
Since the 1950’s, war has...
Sudan’s Extermination of Christians: an Interview With Simon Deng
August 31, 2009
As a child, American human rights activist Simon Deng survived brutal enslavement by Islamists and witnessed their destruction of his village in Sudan.
Today, at 50, Deng is an American citizen and one of the leading advocates for the...
From Russia With Luck — and Determination
December 4, 2008
Her autobiography is titled “From Russia With Luck,” but it was more than luck that landed Dr. Zoya Schmuter her job as a forensic pathologist for the New York City medical examiner’s office.
Schmuter, who at 71...
Anyone Can Be Moral, Even Under the Worst of Circumstances
October 15, 2008
When his children were small, they would ask Roman Kent to tell them stories about his boyhood.
A Holocaust survivor, Kent told them happy stories about his family – his brother, two sisters, himself and their parents – before...