For Israelis and Palestinians, October has been a grueling month. The violence we are used to ramped up to include near-daily confrontations, stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks. If war-weary civilians on either side of the Green Line were hoping the crisis would bring out strong leadership and some shred of hope, they were very much…
So, am I the only one who hadn’t realized that Amy Schumer and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer were related? Apparently, the two are . Which is great, because they’re reportedly teaming up to try and get politicians interested in curbing gun violence. It all started when Schumer (Amy) received an open letter from Sarah Clements,…
Not even a shard of glass was visible on the sidewalk outside 311 N. Exeter St. in downtown Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, no sign of the havoc that struck two nights earlier, when rioters had their way here just as in other parts of this city. But across the doorway and in the three-story brick…
If you’ve been watching Bob Dylan videos lately (I know it’s a select group, but if you’re reading this article, you’re probably in it), you may have noticed that a number of them are violent. Seriously violent. Gunshots, stabbing, torture violent. You may have wondered, what’s up with that? The three most violent — “Beyond…
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid on a West Bank refugee camp. The man was shot in the chest early Wednesday morning as he threw an explosive device at the soldiers in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah. The soldiers were in the camp to arrest a wanted Hamas operative,…
First at the November 2012 memorial ceremony for the victims of the Toulouse school massacre, and again in response to news of the three murdered Israeli teenagers earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaned on the same line of the same poem “On the Slaughter” by Hayyim Nahman Bialik: “The vengeance for a…
Israel’s Cabinet approved a $90 million plan for the socio-economic development of eastern Jerusalem. The plan , approved Sunday, will focus on increased security and police in eastern Jerusalem. “One of the main goals of the plan that was approved is to bring about a significant decline in violence by means of integrated activity to…
Paul Simon, as in the Simon of Simon & Garfunkel, and wife Edie Brickell were reportedly arrested on disorderly conduct charges at his New Canaan, Conn. home over the weekend after a domestic violence incident. So much for “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” Simon, 72, has been married to folk singer Brickell, 48, since 1992. They…
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