Those who have enjoyed Mona Simpson’s much-acclaimed first novel, “Anywhere But Here,” will not be disappointed by “Casebook” (Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95).
At an empty Chabad school near the banks of the Dnieper River here in Ukraine’s capital city, six uniformed Jews with handguns and bulletproof vests are practicing urban warfare.
As I sat waiting to testify at Sunny Singh’s hearing before UCLA’s undergraduate student judicial board on May 15, it occurred to me that on college campuses today, students seem to want to hear only from people with whom they agree.
Grassroots organizing, race, nepotism and, yes, environmentalism, collided in a colorful 1971 L.A. election.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed President Obama’s policy on Syria and said his government had no partner in Ramallah.
“What is being done to silence this man?” an American rabbi asked in a 1963 letter to the Anti-Defamation League.
Iran has sharply cut its most sensitive nuclear stockpile under an interim pact with world powers and has begun engaging with a long-stalled IAEA investigation into suspected weapons research, the U.N. nuclear agency said on Friday.
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