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I'm no more an expert theologian than Ann Coulter is, but I have been a Christian nearly all of my life and have logged in more than 40 years of personal and formal Bible study.  So, even though I'm not a lawyer or a best-selling author, I'm compelled to put in my "two cents" on Ann's recent comments about converting all the Jews, so they will be "perfected" like we Christians are.  [Please don't anyone throw a Bible at me until I have stated my opinion.]  I remember being positively dumfounded -- exactly the way I am at Ann's declaration...

The Middle Eastern sun shone bright in the cemetery where Professor Liviu Librescu, whose body had traveled as long and complicated a journey in death as it had in life, was finally laid to rest. His widow Marlena shook her kerchief-clad head in disbelief as the rabbi read the Jewish prayers of mourning for the dead. “It’s so painful for me to think of your last moments, in which you suffered. I’ll never know what went through your mind, but I hope very much that wherever you are, you will watch over your family,” she said by his graveside. There...

Some deny, some pay lip service, some pay with their lives. This could be true of many things, but I'm talking about the Holocaust. Look at the last couple of weeks. In Great Britain some schools have been dropping lessons on the Holocaust and the Crusades to avoid antagonizing Muslim students. I wrote about this amazing phenomenon, the latest example of political correctness run amok, two weeks ago. It has surfaced elsewhere in the news since. Islamo-fascism is seeping though the body politic of Western-style liberal democracies. One particular infestation was detected by a government-backed study for the United Kingdom's...

Uncommon heroes Graeme Hamilton, National Post Published: Saturday, April 21, 2007 Liviu Librescu's actions saved lives at Virginia Tech. Graeme Hamilton looks at why courage is so rareWhen a deranged gunman began his shooting rampage at Virginia Tech's Norris Hall on Monday, most of the dozens of students in the vicinity cowered under desks or fled, according to witness accounts. But, before being fatally shot himself, 76-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu thrust himself against his classroom door and held off Cho Seunghui long enough to allow many of his students to jump to safety. The professor's heroism gives rise to...

Tears, Pride for Holocaust Survivor, Virginia Tech Librescu At Israel Funeral By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----April 21...... "Daddy, tell me the story again," said the 6-year-old girl. "Tell me how he saved the big children." It had been hours earlier in this pristine, palm tree lined Ra'anana cemetery that hundreds stood mourning and praising Holocaust survivor and Virginia Tech hero for sacrificing his life so that his students would live. "He was a good man," said Amanda. "Will he come back to life now?" she asked. It was this young girl's first trip to a cemetery. I...

A representative of Romanian President Traian Basescu gave a national medal in Israel on Friday to the family of a Romanian-born Virginia Tech professor who saved his students from a rampaging gunman Monday. The presidential representative attended Liviu Librescu's funeral in Ra'anana on Friday and bestowed on his widow and children the Order of the Star of Romania for his bravery and his contributions to science, Israel Radio reported. Librescu, an internationally respected aeronautics engineer and lecturer, was an engineering professor and Holocaust survivor who left Romania for Israel and then the United States. Witnesses to Monday's shooting said Librescu...

The funeral of slain Virginia Tech Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who sacrificed himself to save his students during the brutal massacre at the US school earlier this week, took place in Ra'anana on Friday morning, attended by some 200 friends, family members, foreign diplomats and others who came to pay their respects. Speaking at the ceremony, Librescu's son Joe lamented the questions he had never asked his father. "They're asking me today about your past, and I don't know what to tell them," he said. "I'm proud of you. I walk today with [my] head held high." "Sometimes...

He Did The great Israeli, the great Professor Liviu Librescu did, Working one minute, knowing the next, he waited not, he did. When a matter of hell was on them with shot and fire, When the shooting started, the loathing, evil desire, When the children of Virginia, freedom land screamed, And were cruelly taken, the teacher quickly deemed, Not in my class! You cannot have a single one for, You must go through me and I am strong, vile hate! Do you hear me now! Leave my place, take no more! I spit in your face! Not one shall you...

JERUSALEM — The e-mails from grateful students arrived soon after Liviu Librescu was shot to death, telling how the Holocaust survivor barricaded the doorway of his Virginia Tech classroom and saved their lives at the cost of his own. Librescu, 76, an Israeli engineering and math lecturer who survived the Nazi killings and later escaped from Communist Romania, was one of several foreign victims of Monday's shootings, which coincided with Israel's Holocaust remembrance day. "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Librescu's son, Joe Librescu, said today in a telephone interview from his...

Liviu Librescu Saved His Student's Lives

April 18, 2007, 6:45 a.m. We Need More HeroesSpiderman is not going to save us. Liviu Librescu may. By James Bowman Reacting to what many in Britain and elsewhere are regarding as the disgraceful behavior while in captivity of the British sailors and marines kidnapped by the Iranians, Simon Heffer recently wrote in the London Daily Telegraph: “Why are some so weak-minded compared with those 18- year-olds who, within living memory, went over the top on the Somme, or splashed through machine-gun fire onto the Normandy beaches?” Heffer himself belongs to the “I-blame-the-parents” school of thought on this matter...

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday honored Professor Liviu Librescu, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech University. Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre. “That day we saw horror, but we also saw quiet acts of courage,” Bush said at a memorial service held at the US Holocaust Museum to a crowd that included many...

In a 1974 speech in which he honored returning POWs including John McCain, Ronald Reagan asked where we find such men. He answered, "We [find] them in our streets, in the offices, the shops and the working places of our country and on the farms." Yesterday at Virginia Tech, we found one in a college classroom. Professor Liviu Librescu was shot while blocking the door to his classroom, thereby impeding the gunman while his students escaped by jumping out of the window. For Professor Librescu the road to Blacksburg, Virginia was a winding one. Originally a Romanian, Librescu survived the...