San Francisco State University’s president condemned placards at a Palestinian campus event that said, “My heroes have always killed colonizers.” Stencils allowing attendees to paint the slogan on placards were available at a Nov. 7 event celebrating the sixth anniversary of the creation of a campus mural honoring the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said. According…
The recent decision by the Jewish Student Union at the University of California, Berkeley to reject an application for membership from J Street U points to a deep problem in the American Jewish community. As leaders of J Street U at Berkeley who love Israel but worry about its future, we found this decision strange…
Civil rights groups are demanding that the FBI solve a 28-year-old California murder long thought to be the work of Jewish extremists. Alex Odeh, the Palestinian-American regional director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, was killed in October 1985 by a pipe bomb that exploded when he opened his office door. No one has ever been…
Some people will go to amazing lengths to enjoy Montreal smoke meat, a sort of cross between pastrami and corned beef. Alexei (Lex) Gopnik-Lewinski used to smuggle vacuum-packed smoke meat (also known as smoked meat) across the border every time he would come home to Berkeley, California after visiting family in Montreal. Then, one time…
A lot has been said about Amanda Bynes, but her parents have been conspicuously tight-lipped about the former teen sweetheart’s bizarre actions over the last few months. Until now. In an interview with People magazine, Lynn Bynes responded to the press that her daughter has been getting over her explosive Twitter rants and recent court-ordered…
LOS ANGELES – The drunk driving case against troubled actress and former teenage star Amanda Bynes has been moved to the mental health court at the request of her attorney, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Tuesday. Attorney Richard Hutton argued that the 27-year-old former Nickelodeon star was unable to stand trial in the case…
Amanda Bynes’ lawyer does not deem her mentally fit to stand trial. RadarOnline reports that documents filed Tuesday morning at the LAX Airport courthouse by attorney Rich Hutton indicate that the troubled starlet is in no condition to understand the nature of the legal proceedings currently pending against her. Bynes was supposed appear before a…
After weeks of crazy antics, these pages have been pretty quiet where Amanda Bynes is concerned. That’s because the troubled starlet is still under court-mandated psychiatric treatment at UCLA Medical Center, where she was sent after starting a fire in a woman’s driveway. But as it turns out, treatment doesn’t come cheap. According to [HollyScoop],…
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