Ruth Madoff said in an interview that she and her husband, Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, attempted to commit suicide in 2008.
A bombing at the busiest airport in Moscow that killed at least 31 and injured 130 is being called a terrorist attack by Russian officials. \”From the preliminary information we have, it was a terror attack,\” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of Monday\’s attack on the Domodedovo Airport in a televised briefing. Medvedev also said that those responsible for the attack would be \”tracked down and punished.\” All Moscow transportation services went on high alert following the attack. Israel canceled all flights to Moscow.
Santa Monica High School freshman Matthew Mezza, 14, died on Friday, Jan. 14, when he jumped to his death from the 10th floor of the Sheraton Delfina hotel in Santa Monica.
With Mark Madoff’s suicide over the weekend, we witnessed the burden of a father’s sins. The Madoff Family’s tragic narrative reinforces why a person’s legacy truly matters. To expand on this teachable moment, JInsider looked to better understand personal legacy through the perspective of Jewish wisdom. (See full video discussions on www.jinsider.com)
Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff’s two sons, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of the day his father was arrested for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.
The Beverly Hills Courier has learned exclusively that preliminary ballistics analysis of the bullets that killed famed Hollywood publicist Ronnie Chasen
Suicide bombers will target Paul McCartney unless he cancels his concert in Tel Aviv, a Muslim cleric said
Bianca Khalili\’s death is just one of the recent incidents of community distress that have left many local Iranian Jews speculating among themselves, unsure of how to address violence
The most important thing I can say to all my Persian friends is that before we are anything, we are all Jews. What binds us together is not just our humanity, but the collective Jewish identity we forged at Sinai some 3,300 years ago.
Despite their focus on death and suicide, Etgar Keret\’s stories keep finding new life after publication — from foreign reprints to re-imaginings as graphic novels and films. The latest of those incarnations, the award-winning independent film, \”Wristcutters: A Love Story,\” has finally landed U.S. distribution with After Dark Films\’s sister distributor, Autonomous Films, and is in limited release — opening today in Los Angeles. The debut feature film from Los Angeles-based Croatian director Goran Dukic is based on Keret\’s 1998 short story, \”Kneller\’s Happy Campers,\” a surrealist road story following three suicide victims searching limbo for a lost love.
