Rice dissects American policies

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 6, 2013

For people with a palate for intellectual, social and physical nourishment, the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA is a not-to-be-missed event.

New planets, a God for the cosmos and exotheology

By Roger Price
Published on February 19, 2013

Madeleine Albright reveals secret past in ‘Prague Winter’

By Jonathan Kirsch
Published on August 1, 2012

Madeleine Albright and Christopher Hitchens are two famous figures who discovered their Jewish ancestry only in adulthood. The discovery did nothing to temper Hitchens’ harsh view of religion in general or the State of Israel in particular. For Albright, by contrast, the belated disclosure of her Jewish identity has prompted a remarkable work of self-revelation.

Letters to the Editor: GOP candidates, Christopher Hitchens, religion

Published on January 4, 2012

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Hitchens, Havel and Chomsky

Published on December 26, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, the acerbic critic, and Vaclav Havel, the Czech leader, had one odd thing in common—besides passing away in the same week.

Christopher Hitchens: A rabbi remembers a friend and fellow debater

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on December 16, 2011

In his brilliant history of early modern England, “The Ends of Life,” historian Keith Thomas quotes a translator named George Petrie who wrote in 1581, “The only way to win immortality is either to do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading.” Christopher Hitchens is, by this reckoning, twice immortal.

Christopher Hitchens, the man who was interested in everything

By Ryan Torok
Published on December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens and the fall of a worthy adversary

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, contrarian who embraced and battled Judaism, dead at 62

Published on December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, the atheist and iconoclast who discovered in adulthood that he was of Jewish descent, has died.

Christopher Hitchens, David Wolpe, Sam Harris, Brad Artson on the Afterlife [VIDEO]

Published on February 25, 2011

Is there an afterlife?

June 26–July 2, 2010

By Ryan Torok
Published on June 22, 2010

London-based singer-songwriter and alt-comedian Earl Okin, a veteran solo act with a cult fan base, brings his one-man music-comedy shtick to Los Angeles. Thu. 7:30 p.m. $25. Fields Pianos Recital Hall, 12121 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 476-6735.

Satire, Hitchens, Rotbart and fear

Published on November 26, 2008

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A Moderate Proposal

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 20, 2008

The start of the event was running late -- did I mention it was a Jewish event? -- and midway through our green room conversation, Hitchens pulled out a small bottle of Johnnie Walker Black. He emptied it into a 16-ounce clear-plastic cup and drizzled in some Crystal Geyser spring water. And he began sipping.

Answering Hitchens on moral superiority

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on September 10, 2008

Roman Holiday

By Rob Eshman
Published on July 19, 2007

Put aside the wonderful food and wine -- for a moment -- and a European vacation becomes a trip backward in time through century after century of religious fervor.