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- University of Chicago: Palestinian on campus shouted down for supporting Israel [VIDEO]
- Iran does not want to escalate tensions ahead of Israel's elections, and Trump does not want an escalation ahead of the US midterms. Yet one thing is clear: Something dramatic is unfolding between Washington and Jerusalem.
- ‘NAZA: The Real Story’ by Israeli director Roi Danino rebuts narrative from filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, producer Jonathan Glazer
- After 2,000 years of persecution, pogroms, and genocide, a peculiar breed of Jew has concluded that Jewish history's greatest mistake was finally acquiring the power to defend themselves
- Israel ranked fourth best place to raise children in global index
- Chicagoan Jonathan Burstyn, 27, works at a nursing home during the week, guards his synagogue on Saturdays, and teaches Jewish gun owners about their firearms on Sundays [VIDEO]
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio referenced the ICC as a "rogue court" that is "crippling" the US
- "President Trump and Senator McConnell may be tempted to tell the Democratic states, like Illinois, to get lost. Mr. Stoll offers an alternative approach — using the sudden federal financial leverage “to demand policy reforms that would diminish the long-term structural dysfunctionality” of the mendicant states"
Tag Archives: Richard Loeb
PBS airs ‘The Perfect Crime’ about Chicago’s murderous Leopold and Loeb case [VIDEO]
TIMES OF ISRAEL Pair of privileged Jewish teens first used ‘affluenza’ defense in 1924 by Curt Schleier February 8, 2016 …Though press accounts didn’t mention it, [Ethan] Couch wasn’t the first high-profile case to use the “affluenza” defense. That dubious … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby Franks, Chicago, Ethan Couch, Nathan Leopold, PBS, Richard Loeb, The Perfect Crime
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The Murder of the Century: Loeb + Leopold
TABLET MAG by Adam Kirsch April 16, 2015 When you think of how many people have died violent deaths in the last 90 years, it’s strange that a single murder from 1924 should still be remembered at all, much less … Continue reading