On September 11, 2004, the New York Times published an opinion piece commemorating the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The article began by acknowledging that key facts about what happened that day continued to be withheld by government agencies: These are extraordinary words from our nation’s newspaper of record. The suggestion that the... Read More

In her 1882 book A Sister’s Memoir, Asia Booth Clarke, sister to the assassin of America’s 16th president, wrote that her father Junius Booth attended synagogue and was considered Jewish: Mrs. Clarke wasn’t the only member of the family to make this claim; her older brother Edwin Booth, also reportedly told Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise... Read More