O sociólogo Demétrio Magnoli manteve a atenção total do público do começo ao fim de sua palestra na B’nai B’rith, na terça-feira, 18 de agosto. Na análise do tema: „Irã em pauta”, foi muito além da questão do acordo nuclear. Read more » »

For the first time since 2010, the Links are champions of the Fair Lawn Bnai Brith Softball League . The Bnai Brith Links are sponsored by Links Residential – Northern New Jersey’s Premiere Real Estate Agency. Read more » »

• Parties at odds over national interests. By Ronald L. Ray — A funny thing happened on the way to global governance. Just when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was supposed to move one step closer to world corporatocracy, it stumbled over nationalism and fell. Read more » »

Art Linkletter claimed, „Kids say the darndest things!” They do, and so do grownups, but – unlike kids – grownups should know better. Two good examples have actually been sighted fairly recently right here on the editorial pages. One was a frequently asserted claim that it was Democrats — not Republicans — who voted against the Voting Rights Bill. Read more » »

Simon Says: Creator of ‘The Wire’ talks about growing up in a house of storytellers David Simon (right) talks with director Paul Haggis on the set of Simon’s new HBO series „Show Me a Hero.” (Photo courtesy of HBO) slideshow Yonkers, N.Y., may be the setting of David Simon’s newest TV drama „Show Me A Hero” (premiering Aug. Read more » »

One hundred years ago, on a hot August night in 1915, more than dozen of Marietta, Georgia’s finest citizens — a former governor, a judge, lawyers, two former mayors, school teachers — got into their Model T autos, driving more than 100 miles over Read more » »

In this file photo, Wilkes-Barre Police Chief Robert Hughes, right, is shown unveiling a smartphone app at Wilkes-Barre Police Dept. Headquarters. Read more » »

August 19 43 BCE: Octavian later known as Augustus compels the senate to elect him Consul. As the first Emperor of Rome (in fact, if not in name) Augustus would follow the policies of „moderation and accommodation” towards Judea begun by his Uncle, Julius Caesar 14CE: Augustus, Roman Emperor passed away. Read more » »

(JTA) — BBYO, a pluralistic Jewish American youth group, affirmed in a motion that it is fully inclusive of its members regardless of gender. The motion was passed Friday by BBYO’s leadership fraternity and sorority at the group’s International August Executives Conference, according to a press release. Read more » »

Leo Frank, hanging from a tree in Marietta, GA. Credit: Public domain. I once lived in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Occasionally, I would drive by a particular intersection, and I would shudder. It was at that place — right down the road from today’s Starbucks and Chipotle — that Leo Frank’s body hung from a tree. Read more » »