Danger that lurks is deadliest of all. Nothing is eerier than the notion that the shadows are concealing a predator…
Don’t believe everything you don’t read. Natan Sharansky has resigned from the Cabinet of the Israeli government and the only…
Anna Ayala has waived extradition from Nevada to California, telling the judge that she is “eager” to return to California…
My father, a psychologist, once attended a public lecture by a student of Freud named Dr. Reich. The presentation was…
The bill allowing terminal patients to request life-ending drugs from doctors has made its way out of committee in the…
The Hebrew word niftar, meaning “relieved from duty,” is used by scholarly Jews as a euphemism for reporting someone’s death…
The tales of Yogi Berra’s malapropisms are legion and legendary. Here is one that is never included by chroniclers; as…
George Burns used to tell the story of his father, who was asked to serve as a cantor for Yom…
I was once in the room when a prodigy went insane. This young man had been home-schooled and had mastered…
The Jewish holiday of Purim is celebrated this year on Friday, March 25. It commemorates the salvation of the Jews,…
