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JUNE 6 In History 1242: Two dozen wagonloads of Talmudic volumes and 200 other rabbinic manuscripts were burned at Paris. 1247: Pope Innocent IV contacts the king of Navarre. In a dispatch he requested the king compel Christian debtors to pay off their...

“Build That Wall!” Refrain enthusiastically shouted during packed Donald Trump Republican campaign rallies around the US in 2016. “Tear down this wall!” Part of a speech made by Republican US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin June 12, 1987, calling...

  1188 Birth of Ferrand of Portugal earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I. 1241 Kaidu’s Mongol army enters abandoned Cracow in Poland, burning the city. 1284 Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus 1361 Death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster...

The Boston Bombers' ties to Chechnya and Dagestan must come to light if we're ever going to get to the bottom of "why" they did it. This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation. "Proud to be from Chechnya, I miss my homeland. #chechnyanpower...

From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: The Problem With Using the Tax Code to Punish Israeli Settlements J Street and like-minded progressives are campaigning to eliminate U.S. tax exemptions for charitable groups that provide support to Jewish communities...