I grew up in the 1960s as an Orthodox Jew in a semi-parochial community in Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood tucked between Flatbush, Flatlands, and Canarsie.
A divided federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., tossed out an agreement that would have let 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plead guilty to end a years-long legal saga surrounding the mili...