Book Review: 'Friendly Fire: A Duet' by A.B. Yehoshua (Washington Post)
FRIENDLY FIRE A Duet By A.B. Yehoshua Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman Harcourt. 386 pp. $26 It is Hanukkah in Israel, eight nights of celebration to honor the Maccabees, heroes who in ancient times overcame an enemy occupier and reestablished the unity and faith of the people. Cand...

Calvin Cardy (The Gallup Independent)
CRYSTAL — Funeral services for Calvin Cardy, 52, will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 24, at Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church Stake Center, Gallup. Robert Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Fort Defiance Veteran’s Cemetery.

Bible times' mysteries are scholar's calling (BPNews.net)
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--In a cramped room, students fix their eyes on a copy of Greek text, surrounded by glass cases containing copies of centuries-old Bibles and ancient texts. Some letters are clear, others nonexistent; holes in the text give the document the appearance of moth-eaten fabric.

Bernie Madoff cut deep into LA’s Jewish community (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
The mess caused by Bernard Madoff’s alleged $17 billion Ponzi scheme is much worse for American Jews than I thought. Originally, I assumed it would give fodder to anti-Semites along the lines of the financial meltdown.

Bernie Madoff gives ammo to anti-Semites everywhere (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
“It’s all just one big lie.“ With those words Bernard Madoff confessed to senior executives of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities that the $17 billion hedge fund company he founded was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.