JBS News Update More July 6, 2021 5:50 pm
JBS News Update with Teisha Bader from July 6th, 2021.
Stories Include:
Israel Sends Covid Vaccines to S. Korea,
Israel FM Dir to Meet Officials in Morocco,
Belarus Ambassador Called re ‘Unacceptable’ Remarks,
Jewish Director, Producer Dies at 91,
Israel’s President Readies to Leave Post
Programming:
At 6:30pm it’s ILTV’s Insider.
At 7pm a look at the famed Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I. – the oldest active synagogue in America.
At 7:30pm Senators Cory Booker, Jacky Rosen, and Tim Scott discuss education, social justice and other initiatives as they launch the historic Senate Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations At AJC Virtual Global Forum 2021 with Manya Brachear Pashman.
From Pius XII to Vatican II: The Hidden History of a Key Church Epoch
From Pius XII to Vatican II: The Hidden History of a Key Church Epoch
Fr. Charles Theodore Murr, in this Interview Concerning His Book on Mother Pascalina Lehnert, Unveils the Mysteries of the People and Events in the Church in the Mid-1900s
By Kevin Symonds
Fr. Charles Theodore Murr, author of The Godmother: Mother Pascalina: A Feminine Tour de Force (2017). Fr. Murr is a former secretary to
Edouard Cardinal Gagnon and worked at the Vatican in the 1970s. During this time, Murr befriended
Mother Pascalina Lehnert, the housekeeper of Pope Pius XII for 41 years, from his time as Papal Nuncio in Germany to his death as Pope in 1958. The Godmother recounts many of their encounters in the 1970s, with topics ranging from serious Church news and issues to a lighthearted and humorous attending of a stage performance of The Pirates of Penzance. Fr. Murr sits with Inside the Vatican and gives us a look into his li
The American state, the fascists and the Soviet Union’s ex-revolutionaries
In
Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia, published by Oxford University Press last year, Benjamin Tromly, a professor of history at University of Puget Sound, explores the relationship between America’s post-war spy agencies and anti-communist Russian and Soviet émigrés dedicated to regime change in the USSR.
His work contains extensive evidence of the machinations of the fascists with which the US government was working and the willingness of former socialists to work alongside the far-right to promote the anti-Soviet cause. Yet the book’s considerable strength is also at times a weakness. Tromly traces in detail the twists and turns in the reactionary, backstabbing, at times buffoonish, politically tragic, and frequently ineffective efforts of émigrés jockeying for money and political influence. But the author does not make sense of all the evidence. In the final analysis, what