Baltimore Jewish Times publisher files Chapter 11
Baltimore Jewish Times publisher files Chapter 11\n
Baltimore Jewish Times publisher files Chapter 11\n
Is Israeli cuisine the original fusion food?
South African judge Richard Goldstone is being barred from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was identified as the chief suspect in a massive real estate scandal.\n\nPolice on Thursday identified Olmert as the senior figure in the Holyland project scandal.
More than three quarters of the members in both Houses of Congress wrote to President Obama urging him to unilaterally sanction Iran.\n\nThe U.S. House of Representatives letter, initiated by Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.) garnered 363 signatories; the Senate letter, initiated by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), garnered 76.
Normally, I write book reviews in the third person, eschewing the second person as intellectually unrigorous and the first person as, well, too personal. When I occasionally set aside my normal practice, it is usually when a book is about sex or race—two extremely personal, sensitive topics. The third-person voice in those reviews seems, well, too impersonal.
An historical novel set in 13th-century Constantinople, “The Sheen On The Silk” by Anne Perry (Ballantine: $27.00, 514 pp.), is a major and, arguably, courageous leap for the prolific, bestselling Perry, well-known for her series of mysteries set during World War I and Victorian England.