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Modern Schindlers: The Heroes Working to Rescue ISIS Victims

'I've been raped 30 times and it's not even lunchtime," cried one young Yazidi woman in a dangerous and desperate call. Chillingly, she begged the man on the line, someone embedded with the Kurdish Peshmerga fighting ISIS: "If you know where we are,

Situation in Refugee Camps Dire as Millions of Christians, Yazidis Flee ISIS

Even as the Western intelligentsia continue to focus upon the fake and inflated refugee crisis among Palestinians, the world's real refugee crisis Christians and Yazidis persecuted by ISIS has become both overwhelming and hidden in plain sight.

Op-Ed: Too Many Women Among Those Who Despise America and Hate Israel

The Canary Mission is devoted to exposing haters of America and of Jews and boycotters of Israel. In a sense, they want to "blacklist the blacklisters." Their site, which first appeared in February of this year, thus far features both individual

Op-Ed: Farewell to the Man Who Launched a Blood Libel

France's Channel 2 Television man in Jerusalem, the infamous Charles Enderlin, is finally leaving the Holy Land. As some might say: Baruch Hashem. However, Charles Enderlin was neither fired nor jailed. He remained at his prestigious post for fifteen

Jewish Athletes Under Siege in Germany

Jewish athletes, from all over the world, who have assembled in Germany for the Maccabi Games, are being taunted and attacked by Muslims, neo-Nazis, and leftists. Two "youths" cursed and threw an object at six Jewish men. They have not yet been found. An

UK Police Declare War on Female Genital Mutilation as 'Cutting Season' Approaches

The summer is known as the "cutting season." This means that infants as young as two or three months old are being taken out of the UK to be genitally mutilated in their countries of origin, such as Malaysia, whose customs, like those of Iran, have

World's Yezidis Rally for International Community to Stop ISIS Genocide in Iraq

The Yezidis are holding worldwide rallies and Memorial Services tomorrow in Oldenberg, Germany; on August 2nd in Lalish, Iraq (the Yezidi spiritual heartland), and in France; and on August 3rd in Geneva, Armenia, Berlin, and in cities in Sweden, Turkey,

Overjoyed and Angry at Jonathan Pollard's Coming Release

And so, at long last, after thirty years, seven of which he spent in solitary confinementthe most barbaric of punishmentsJonathan Pollard will be pardoned and may live to breathe the air of freedom. I am overjoyed, apprehensive, enormously sad,

Sir Nicholas Winton: One Daring Act of Kindness Can Change the World

A great soul has just gone on to his Creator: Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 mainly Jewish children from Prague in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, died today. He was 106 years old. Prime Minister David Cameron said: "The world has lost a great man.

Save the Iraqi Yezidis from Genocide!

The Yezidis are now on the move. This has been secretly planned for months. What we now have is a potentially mass exodus from ISIS-controlled Iraq. They have reason to believe that Bulgaria will grant them asylum. However, Turkey, which they must enter