September 2021

Our two most recent selections in the Catholic Book Club are both set in the American Southwest and both are deeply Catholic in their themes and characters; both are also novels that their authors developed from previously published short…

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MONSEY - Rabbi Moshe (Moses) Dovid Tendler, a world leader in Jewish medical ethics and professor at Yeshiva University, has passed away. The Monsey resident and founding rabbi of the Monsey Community Synagogue was 95 years old.Tendler was…

The Jewish calendar currently marks the shmita which, in addition to canceling all debts, obliges the Jews to leave the Land of Israel fallow during this sabbatical year. In this column, we will explore the different options…

The town of Beachwood has the distinction of being the first city to leave the Northern Ohio Risk Management…

The sidewalks of Paris were already littered with fallen chestnuts by the time the first scandal of the literary season finally erupted. Most of September, as French publishers release their most promising books and start fighting for…

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 22-year-old former nursing student will be sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for breaking into a synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019 with a semi-automatic rifle to kill one devotee and…

The two most fascinating and controversial intelligence professionals of the Cold War were Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British MI6 officer who passed secrets to the Soviets, and James Jesus Angleton (1917-1987), the chief CIA…

Harrogate social enterprise PR firm Cause UK was named the 2021 PR Agency of the Year at the Prolific North Awards. Pictured (L to R): Host Hattie Pearson, Managing Director of Cause UK Clair Challenor-Chadwick, and Laura Maguire, Customer…

Daniel Kurganov, violin; and Constantine Finehouse, piano, offered a condensed version of "Autumn Affection" a few days ago for Music Mondays at the Scandinavian Center in Waltham. The duo are planning their recital debut at Merkin…