September 17th marks the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish nobleman who saved tens of thousands of Nazi concentration camp inmates and was ironically murdered by Israeli extremists three years later. Today, Bernadotte's countryman, Raoul Wallenberg, is honored the world over for his...

In Beirut, a recent event, under-reported in the United States, provides a dramatic contrast with the New York controversy over Park51, an Islamic cultural center planned for lower Manhattan. According to Ha'aretz, Lebanon's largest Jewish synagogue has been saved from the wrecking ball and beautifully restored to its...