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In a restaurant near Phoenix last weekend I looked up and there was Muhammad Ali, slowly easing past my table.
New York state police, after recently reopening a 19-year-old investigation into the disappearance of the wife of a prominent East Coast developer, were attempting to arrange an interview with author Susan Berman just before she was found shot to death in her Benedict Canyon home late last month.
After moving to Los Angeles in the late 1970s, Dr.
Leonard Beerman, founding rabbi of the Westside’s Leo Baeck Temple and a pacifist who often stoked anger with his vocal criticism of Israel, died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
“Uh, I’m not exactly sure about all this,” Ryan Bell said as he scanned the scene inside a darkened Las Vegas convention hall.
Racked by pain, the 93-year-old rabbi walked shakily to the lectern to give his sermon on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
The big morning had finally arrived.
The bullet screamed out of the barrel of a silver-plated handgun, tearing through his left eye, his nasal canal, the optic nerve in his right eye.
A United Methodist pastor who was temporarily defrocked after officiating at his gay son’s wedding will be able to stay in the ministry, the denomination’s highest court ruled Monday.
A United Methodist pastor who was temporarily defrocked last year after he officiated at his gay son’s wedding will retain his ministry after a final ruling Monday by the denomination’s highest court.
