Lessons from Odessa—Part 2
Hard-face in my kitchen I am standing in my kitchen looking at a man who has, no doubt, killed. He is Ukrainian Mafia and he is yelling...
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Ron Cantor
- Mar 9
- 3 min
Lessons from Odessa—Part 1
A Dead Mouse and a New Life My wife was looking at a dead mouse on the ground. We were in Odessa, Ukraine visiting. I was convinced that...
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Ron Cantor
- Mar 9
- 4 min
Lessons from Odessa—Part 3
For the next three days, over the weekend, I was in a daze. I didn’t know what to do. I was paralyzed with fear. This definitely was...
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Ron Cantor
- Sep 18, 2012
- 3 min
9/11 and the Sprit of Terror—Part 3
Part 1 <> Part 2 It was nine days after 9/11. I was watching the evening news. In fact, I think the whole world was watching—what would...
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Ron Cantor
- Sep 11, 2012
- 4 min
9/11 and the Spirit of Terrorism Part 2
Part 1 <> Part 3 A Moving Ritual On September 11th 2001 my two younger daughters were let out of school early. They were eight and ten...
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Ron Cantor
- Sep 11, 2012
- 3 min
9/11 and the Spirit of Terrorism
The phone rang. “Something terrible has happened in America!” The voice on the other end was Marcela Goldstein’s, the wife of Jorge...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 31, 2012
- 4 min
A Prostitute in Russia—Final
Dasvadanya Tolyatti The next day we packed and prepared for the trek back to Moscow. As we gathered at the bus that would take us to the...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 30, 2012
- 5 min
A Prostitute in Russia Part 3
From Hooker to Heaven When Irina got off the floor and began to worship the Lord, we were overjoyed. It was the hand of God. She looked...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 29, 2012
- 4 min
A Prostitute in Russia Part 2
The Outreach Begins One of the saddest things about Soviet era Russia is that creativity was killed. Miles and miles of massive apartment...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 28, 2012
- 4 min
A Prostitute in Russia Part 1
Reports of spiritual hunger in Russia in the early 90s deeply moved me. The Iron Curtain came crashing down in the Former Soviet Union...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 27, 2012
- 5 min
Reading in my Bathtub: Falling in Love w/ Israel-Final
Rude American As I entered the tiny matchbox apartment, where my wife and her three siblings were raised, I was greeted by Elana’s mother...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 26, 2012
- 1 min
Series: 10 Events That Shaped My Life
We all have life-changing moments. Moments that according Jeff Goins’ new book Wreck us. We are not the same afterward. We are ruined in...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 26, 2012
- 2 min
Reading in my Bathtub: Falling in Love w/ Israel-Part 4
My Arrival There is nothing that compares to those first few seconds in the Holy Land. You feel as if you have gone back in time. Not...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 26, 2012
- 2 min
Reading in my Bathtub: Falling in Love w/ Israel-Part 3
Going Home 1991 In between my bathtub revelation and my actual visit in June of 1991, Saddam Hussein decided to send 42 scud missiles to...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 26, 2012
- 2 min
Reading in my Bathtub: Falling in Love w/ Israel-Part 1
From Beirut to Jerusalem, to my Bathtub! Thomas Friedman changed my life. You may have heard of him. He is the left-leaning longtime...
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Ron Cantor
- Aug 26, 2012
- 2 min
Reading in my Bathtub: Falling in Love w/ Israel-Part 2
It wasn’t merely that I was Jewish. I didn’t fall in love with the sites or the cities, but the people—the characters in his book. He...
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