In a move certain to anger Israel and Washington, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and more than a dozen other international treaties.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?\”
He was a lifelong atheist who was offered the presidency of the State of Israel.\n\nHe was a dedicated pacifist who helped usher in the atomic age.\n\nHe was a modest man whose face may be the most familiar one in the world.\n\nThough 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.\n\nThe 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.
Playwright Martin Blank confesses he has an affinity for spy stories.
Sometimes, they say, hope shines brightest in the darkest hours.
I once appeared in court to ask that three additional defendants be held liable on a judgment.
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