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Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries’ free Kever Avot Community Memorial Services on Sunday, September 12, 2010 will focus on the important lesson to “not stand idly” by while others suffer abuse and genocide when Janice Kamenir-Reznik delivers the keynote presentation. Kamenir-Reznik is the Co-Founder and President of Jewish World Watch which works to alleviate suffering in Darfur and among other persecuted peoples. Scheduled to begin at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills at 10:00 A.M. and...

Al Qaeda operative and the psychology professor assigned to interrogate him are forced to face their own limitations as George, the professor tries to get Khalil, the operative, to reveal the location of a possible bombing to take place in London. This game of cat and mouse includes a third party Omar, a Los Angeles based graduate student plotting to bomb a series of sites in the United States - an operation Khalil was supposed to head. Jones' taught prose and stellar plot make for a great pag...

The discovery of a priceless artifact puts Julia’s life in great danger! From valuable artifacts to shady businessmen, the Yucatan Peninsula becomes a dangerous vacation spot for John and Julia Evans. While on assignment for the newspaper, the Evans’ try to enjoy a romantic vacation among the Mayan ruins, but when Julia accidentally comes upon a couple suspicious men exchanging an item, she quickly turns and leaves but it is too late. The men have seen her. As a reporter, Julia does not easi...

Hailing from Virginia and taking many a family vacation to Williamsburg, I thought I had been there done that when it came to historical tours, but Boston proved me wrong. Not only does the city present a rich record of how our nascent country became the United States, it also offers a variety of attractions for adults and children along with a welcoming hospitality that makes visitors feel at home. From the moment we checked in at the Omni Parker House Hotel (http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHot...

With so much to see and do in New England on a five-day family vacation, we had to narrow down our wish list of historic attractions, sites and fun family activities, but we knew we couldn’t’ depart New England without a visit to the Cape. So for the final two days of our trip off we took a ferry to the delightful historic fishing village of Provincetown. Our timing for the 90-minute Fast Ferry journey via the Bay State Cruise Company (http://www.baystatecruisecompany.com) could have been ...

34 poets stood at the podium and shared their poetic vision of Life with an overflowing audience that filled the Community room at the Library.Pat Pincus, a long-time board member of the Friends of KBBL, began The Summer Poetry Fest in 1987, and it has been a highlight of the Library’s programs ever since. The Poetry Fest was renamed the Pat Pincus Poetry Fest in her honor after she passed away in 2008. Pat Pincus’ daughter, Corinne Schulman, was in the audience on Sunday and expressed how t...