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Wednesday Night #2233
January 1, 2025, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2233

New year celebrations around the world – in spectacular pictures Revelers across the globe welcome the arrival of 2025 ...

Wednesday (Thursday) Night #2232
December 26, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday (Thursday) Night #2232

In view of the unusual coincidence of Hanukkah and Christmas this Wednesday, 25 December, it was decided by democratic v ...

Wednesday Night #2231
December 18, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2231

We are deeply saddened to learn of the death on Tuesday of Anthony (Tony) Shine, who, with his wife Ruth Walzer Shine we ...

Anthony Shine (Tony) R.I.P.
December 18, 2024, Comments Off on Anthony Shine (Tony) R.I.P.

Anthony Shine (Tony) December 18, 1930 – December 17, 2024 Anthony (Tony) Julian Shine passed away on Dec. 17, 202 ...

Wednesday Night #2230
December 11, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2230

A week ago, no-one was predicting the incredibly swift collapse of Syria‘s Assad regime. Anne Applebaum appropriat ...

Herbert Bercovitz OWN R.I.P.
December 5, 2024, 1 Comment

Herbert Bercovitz One of the pillars of Wednesday Night and our dear friend. Although Herb has been unable to participat ...

Wednesday Night #2229
December 4, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2229

The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is lit on Wednesday 4 December The story of its origins is touching and, appr ...

Wednesday Night #2228 with Peter Berezin
November 27, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2228 with Peter Berezin

We were struck by the paucity of references in any media this year to the 22 November anniversary of JFK’s assassi ...

Wednesday Night #2227
November 20, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2227

APEC, G20, Climate Change COP29 … Multilateralism is everywhere. As the assorted leaders huddle while their sherpa ...

Wednesday Night #2226
November 13, 2024, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2226

As the days grow shorter, darkness envelops us physically -though you MUST check out the spectacular Beaver Supermoon r ...