Here’s my first post about Rabbi David Brenner. His response. I then reached out to Rabbi Brenner via Facebook. Tonight I sent him these questions and he promptly emailed back his response. LF: How should Kellogs have reacted when their spokesmodel Michael Phelps was photographed smoking marij...

Slave2TehTink is normally found making posts with no redeeming social value whatsoever[1] in her LiveJournal, or posting pictures of her small menagerie on her flickr. Offline she lurks on the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia with her fawn Doberman Tink, and knits. “JURORS BALK AT S...

While it is well known perhaps to Israelis, few outside know that Avigdor Lieberman, whom Israel’s new prime minister is poised to name as foreign minister, plead guilty in 2001 to beating a child.  I’d heard of this story but never read any news coverage about the event nor read a conf...

So  Rihanna doesn’t know if she wants to pursue charges against Chris Brown for beating her up and is suffering from depression and conflicting emotions after watching the implosion of his career over the last few days. Hopefully her wavering demonstrates, for the world to see, how tough...

Daily News: In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge. Sources close to Cheney told the Daily News the former vice presid...

A string of male prostitution arrests have touched a nerve among gay New Yorkers and raised the concerns of some elected officials....

Hypothetical child custody question about when the only living parent goes to jail. How hard is it for the convicted parent to regain custody of their child upon their release? I'm writing a story in which the father of a 16 year old girl has been in jail for 10 years for a theft-related crime. The ...

About five years ago, Emanuel Peled made headlines when he was convicted of fraudulently billing suckers for phone sex calls they didn’t make. He stole hundreds of thousands of shekels from strangers by threatening to make public these peoples’ love of audio porn, even though in most cas...

  When false murder charges against a man who spent 13 years in prison are finally dropped, it is hard to know how to feel.  There is a measure of joy that the ordeal is over, but also great sadness at the years wasted and the damage inflicted -- and anger that it ever ...

Frank Turk at Pyromaniacs asks whether we are aspiring to have our pastors say of us, what Paul had said of his congregents: "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Fathe...