A plate of cheese and crackers served to hungry Israeli officials at the White House is one of the many images that lingered after I read Michael Oren’s riveting new book, “Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide.”
Pearl Booth died May 18 at 92. Survived by daughter Gohan Karapetyan; 1 granddaughter. Mount Sinai
Rob Eshman (“Sheldon: Improve Israel’s Odds,” June 12), Obama, J Street, New Israel Fund, Peace Now and other Israel critics who pretend to support Israel, would be listened to, and possibly believed more, if they would only at least once support Israel without the equivocating “but” or the false moral equivalency of “on the other hand.”
In 2013, I traveled in Nepal with six dear friends, including two Americans who have lived there on and off for several decades.
David Blatt, the Israeli-American coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, lamented his team’s loss in the NBA Finals but said it doesn’t mean the overall season was bad.
As just about every American knows by now, two murderers recently escaped a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.
A story of magical realism about a great love and two competing artists is told against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian Revolution in “Chagall-Malevich.”
Not long ago, along a stretch of Venice boardwalk, I watched a weightlifter stroll over from Muscle Beach to where the chess hustlers play.
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