Have a Happy Chanukah — or is it Hanukkah?
November 23, 2013
Next week, Chanukah will fall on Thanksgiving, an exceedingly rare occurrence. I suspect that this year many families will enjoy their turkey stuffed with
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Next week, Chanukah will fall on Thanksgiving, an exceedingly rare occurrence. I suspect that this year many families will enjoy their turkey stuffed with
On July 1 through July 3, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., Americans slew Americans in the most lethal battle ever fought on
In a few days, our nation will celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, which Abraham Lincoln delivered on Nov. 19, 1863. In Tuesday’s
I’ll be signing my newest books at Warwick’s in La Jolla on Sunday, Nov. 17, from noon to 2 p.m., and, soon after on
On Nov. 22, the country will pause to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This dark event in
Three vampires went into a bar and sat down. A comely barmaid came over to take their orders. The vampires tried to be neck
About a month ago, I wrote a column about George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and the recent controversy surrounding the NSA surveillance of millions
Next week, we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the man who, along with Richard Wagner, is considered the pre-eminent composer of
The great French novelist Victor Hugo once wrote, “A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their