Doctors Plot News Today

Doctors’ Plot, (1953), alleged conspiracy of prominent Soviet medical specialists to murder leading government and party officials; the prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the Soviet Union is that Joseph Stalin intended to use the resulting doctors’ trial to launch a massive party purge. On Jan. 13, 1953, the newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya announced that nine doctors, who had attended major Soviet leaders, had been arrested. They were charged with poisoning Andrey A. Zhdanov, Cent...

Russian media dusting the country’s favourite scapegoat, the Jews, to continue playing the blame game.

Rabbi Yakov Saacks, The Chai Center, Dix Hills As a Rabbi, I study many topics of Jewish interest. I have my daily regimen but I also try to study something I have not known (or forgotten) before. In preparing for a lecture series on modern-day Israel, I learned quite a few interesting facts that I had not known, and in the process came across a fascinating theme. Namely, miracles. TWO TYPES OF MIRACLES UPROOTING NATURE There are two types of miracles that can occur. The first miracle is one th...