Judge rejects Demjanjuk claim that documents withheld

Published on December 21, 2011

A federal judge in Cleveland rejected a claim by convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk that U.S. prosecutors withheld documents that could have helped his case.

The Al Jazeera document dump and you

By Douglas M. Bloomfield
Published on January 26, 2011

Map making seems to be an increasingly popular pastime in the Middle East these days. The Palestinians claim they prepared their mapped vision of the two-state solution but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to look at it. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is reportedly preparing maps that will give Palestinians an interim state on land they already control but no more. Now a leading Washington think tank has unveiled a series of maps detailing proposals for drawing Israeli-Palestinian borders.

WikiLeaks reveals secrets, backroom dealmaking—and cluelessness

Published on November 30, 2010

A careful reading of the WikiLeaks trove of State Department cables -- which is laying bare some 250,000 secret dispatches detailing private conversations, assessments and dealmaking of U.S. diplomats -- reveals a notable if perhaps surprising pattern: how often they get things wrong.

Photos capture numbers and words of Nazis’  Final Solution

By Kirk Silsbee
Published on August 20, 2008

A selection of 52 color digital images from Ehrlich's documentation of Nazi bureaucracy from Hitler's Final Solution will be on display in "The Holocaust Archive Revealed" at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica beginning Tuesday

Torture: What did we know, and when did we know it?

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on June 27, 2008

The new face of Russian Jewry

By Lea Silverman
Published on May 27, 2004

When Tatyana Sharfman applied to immigrate to the United States, she was not yet sure that she wanted to leave her native country of Russia. Her aunt, who had left Russia in 1992 and now lives in the San Fernando Valley, was determined to bring over the rest of the family, and so Sharfman began to fill out the necessary documents.

"She kept asking us, 'What are you doing over there?'" Sharfman recalled. "We didn't take it seriously, really, but we filled out some papers just because we had these papers."

Sharfman knew that it was typically a long process to emigrate from Russia, and she did not really expect to be accepted. However, one day the approved documents were returned by the government, and her family faced a life-changing decision: "To come or not to come?"

Caltech Seeks the Complete Einstein

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 11, 2004

He was a lifelong atheist who was offered the presidency of the State of Israel.

He was a dedicated pacifist who helped usher in the atomic age.

He was a modest man whose face may be the most familiar one in the world.

Though pictured mainly as a frail, unkempt old man, he was adored by women, fathered an illegitimate child when he was 23 and after marriage engaged in a number of extramarital affairs.

The complex and contradictory man was, of course, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest intellects of all ages, who radically transformed our understanding of the universe.

Playing at Pollard

By Keren Engelberg
Published on February 6, 2003

Playwright Martin Blank confesses he has an affinity for spy stories.

‘Dreamers’ Still Hold Hope for Peace

By Gil Sedan
Published on December 19, 2002

Sometimes, they say, hope shines brightest in the darkest hours.

Ninth Circuit Misses on Iran

By Nathan D. Wirtschafter
Published on December 12, 2002

I once appeared in court to ask that three additional defendants be held liable on a judgment.

World Briefs

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Published on November 14, 2002

Variety, the daily newspaper covering the entertainment industry, admonished Egyptian television in a Nov. 13 editorial for running its 41-part series called "Horseman Without a Horse," a series which is based on the anti-Semitic tract "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Artifacts of a Survivor

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on October 3, 2002

In 1949, 16-year-old Ernest Michel never dreamed that the very belt and pants he wore at Auschwitz would become treasured relics in a special exhibit.

Why Jonathan Pollard is Still in Prison

By Edwin Black
Published on July 4, 2002

On January 7, 2002, former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived without fanfare at the Federal Correction Center in Butner, North Carolina to visit America's most controversial Jewish prisoner.

Arafat’s Paper Trail

By Gil Sedan
Published on April 18, 2002

These battleground spoils cannot explode or kill, but Israel considers them important benefits of its military operation in the West Bank: Thousands of documents, pamphlets and posters that provide written evidence of the Palestinian Authority's massive involvement in terrorism. The documents were captured at places like Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah and other P.A. offices, offices of the P.A.'s Preventive Security Service and Arafat's Tanzim militia, Palestinian organizations throughout the West Bank and the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) Jerusalem headquarters at Orient House.

A Hero’s Struggles

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 7, 2002

"Once you've tasted fame. It's very difficult to live without it."

In Their Rightful Place

By Tom Tugend
Published on July 1, 1999

The Skirball and the Huntington are located some 20 miles apart, but the institutions and their presidents existed in different worlds. The Huntington is situated in old-moneyed, Protestant San Marino, and its president is an old-line American of Norwegian descent.