International

Amar’e Stoudemire finalizes two-year deal to play in Israel

Hapoel Jerusalem formally announced Monday that center Amar’e Stoudemire has agreed to a two-year contract with the Israeli League team. Stoudemire, who retired from the NBA after spending this past season with the Miami Heat, is a part-owner of Hapoel Jerusalem. In a first-person piece for The Players’ Tribune website, Stoudemire, 33, wrote of stepping […]

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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USA

Ancient mass grave site in Greek capital could point to earliest dated event in Athenian history

At least 80 skeletons were laid to rest in an ancient Greek burial site in Athens, with their wrists clamped together in iron shackles. Archaeologists have suggested that they appear be the victims of a mass execution, but their crime remains largely unknown. There is a certain uniformity to thee way the skeletons unearthed during

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Southwest Airlines’ pilots, mechanics unions call for ouster of CEO

DALLAS — Leaders of Southwest Airlines’ pilots and mechanics unions have called for the ouster of the Dallas-based company’s CEO, Gary Kelly, and chief operating officer Mike Van de Ven in a vote of no confidence, the unions said Monday. “As tenured employees and frontline leaders of this company, we can no longer sit idly

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USA

Trump, in Ohio, tries to get past self-imposed controversies, but is only partly successful

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Before an audience of Ohio loyalists, Donald Trump tried Monday to revert to his usual pitch, pledging that he would repeal Obamacare, dramatically lessen regulations governing business and rebuild the nation’s manufacturing base. But the distractions that have cost his campaign four precious days surfaced nonetheless. Trump did not mention his verbal

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International, USA

Body camera didn’t record Chicago cop’s fatal shooting of teen in back

CHICAGO — The body camera of a Chicago police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager on the South Side last week was not recording when he opened fire, police officials said Monday. Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the department is investigating why the equipment didn’t capture the shooting of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal, who

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USA

Khamenei: Israel- Saudi warming a ‘stab in the back’

TEHRAN (WJC) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a harsh rebuke of Saudi Arabia on Monday for allegedly seeking better relations with Israel. “Revelation of Saudi government’s relations with Zionist regime was stab in the back of Islamic Ummah,” Khamenei posted on his Twitter account. In another message, he wrote: “Today, #Saudi government is in

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Middle East

Reflections on a somber interview with Elie Wiesel

    By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall SAN MARCOS, California — In 2007, I received an unexpected invitation: interviewing Elie Wiesel for a program at the Carlsbad Library (California). The city has an annual program in which residents discuss a common book; that year, it was Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night. To culminate the program, the city

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International, Jewish History, San Diego County

Humoring the headlines: August 1, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Criticizing President Obama’s characterization of Donald Trump as a “homegrown demagogue,” Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Mike Pence indignantly asserted, “I don’t think name calling has any place in public life.”  Either Pence doesn’t consider Trump’s epithets for rivals like crazy Bernie, crooked Hillary, lyin’ Ted, little Marco, low-energy Jeb, 1 for

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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

2016 Olympics: 7 Jewish American Olympians to watch in Rio

There are athletes, and then there are Olympic athletes. And then there are Jewish Olympic athletes. When the 2016 Summer Olympics open Friday, we’ll of course be cheering the American athletes — all 555 of them — and we’ll be rooting for Israel, too, which this year is sending its largest ever cohort to Rio.

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA