My mother was born in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1948. My grandparents could have given her a popular midcentury name like Linda or Nancy or Barbara, meaning “beautiful,” “gracious” or “protectress,” but they chose to call her Amy Ruth Garvin, meaning “a beloved companion of a rough or cruel fate.”
The morning began with the most unassuming of questions.\n\n“Do you know what day it is?” I asked my roommate Michael, still lying half-asleep in his bed.
It’s dangerous to be a journalist in Egypt these days, according to several human rights groups.
Al Jazeera America denied allegations by a former employee who said that the news channel overlooked anti-Semitic, sexist and anti-American misconduct.
From roundtable discussions to protests and prayers to candid talk with law enforcement officials, American Jewish communities are joining in the debate about community policing in the wake of several high-profile deaths of unarmed black men while in police custody.
Inmates in Florida’s prisons who request kosher meals must receive them, a federal judge in Miami ruled.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scrambling to form a majority coalition before a Thursday deadline after his Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced he is resigning his post immediately and his party will not be joining the coalition.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in which the two gunmen were killed.
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