by Larry Greenfield | Apr 15, 2011 | Opinion
Did they get it right? Did those in the crowd who gathered to see this hick from out-of-the-way Nazareth give the correct answer to the urban and urbane Jerusalemites wanting to know who the center of all the attention was. The one whose entry into Jerusalem was...
by Mike Parnell | Apr 15, 2011 | Opinion
“Win Win” focuses on the life of a New Jersey attorney named Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti). Mike has a small practice in a little house shared by his friend, Stephen Vigman (Jeffery Tambor). Their boiler is about to blow, and their toilet stays continually...
by Mike Parnell | Apr 14, 2011 | Opinion
I have loved Hollywood’s products my entire life. I sat in the dark of the Carolina Theater in Lumberton, N.C., as a boy and became enthralled by the figures that danced across that screen. Yes, I heard the preacher say I shouldn’t go there. He told me I...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Apr 14, 2011 | Opinion
The U.S. Civil War began 150 years ago, on April 12, 1861, when the first mortar round was fired on Fort Sumter, S.C. By the end of the Civil War in 1865, more than 600,000 soldiers had died, and the United States experienced a defining point. The Civil War, however,...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Apr 13, 2011 | Opinion
I was asked recently to articulate why Judaism matters. Here is my reply: Now HaShem said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. [As a consequence of your going] I will make of you a...
by Michael Ruffin | Apr 13, 2011 | Opinion
At 4:40 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, initiating the first battle of the American Civil War, an internecine conflict that would result in the preservation of the Union at the cost of some...
