Dear Friends, We stand with Israel. We support its right to exist among its neighbors in peace. We can never tolerate hatred of one culture, ethnicity, race or religion, the hatred of our brothers and sisters of the Jewish faith. We are saddened by all the suffering and abhor the cycle of hate and terrorism...

Dear Friends, As we bring to a close October is Italian Heritage and Culture Month, I want to share with you this timely interview with New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who was honored this year in the National Columbus Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. Comptroller Di Napoli epitomizes the best in our community as a...

Dear Friends, Brian Lehrer, a popular radio and podcast host on WNYC in New York City, presented a special segment on Columbus Day, 2023, featuring a decapitated Columbus statue and these words:  "The second Monday in October is now known in New York City as Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day. Teachers call in to talk about...

I feel honored to be back here to pay tribute to a great Italian historical figure and to a source of pride of the Italian American Community. At a moment when even the Columbus Parade can no longer be called as such in order not to hurt or offend anybody, it is important to ask...

How did Howard Zinn's seed germinate into a movement of societal self-immolation, with Columbus as the proverbial canary in the coal mine? In this interview with Joe Piscopo, best-selling author Mary Grabar deconstructs Zinn, the self-described Marxist who first and wrongly accused Columbus of genocide in his 1980 book, A Peoples History of the United...