Marc Bader News Today

After a trip to Alabama that helped him see the connection between slavery and the death penalty, Santa Clara County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen is working to call back the death sentences of 15 men convicted from his county.

The wealthy and populous emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will soon open an office in Ho Chi Minh City to boost bilateral trade and investment, CEO of Dubai Chambers, Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah told Thuc Minh.

This week in Mohawk Valley history, Uticas first one-room school opened for boys and Utica Cutlery earned a military contract to make pocket knives.

Congregation Kol Emeth’s new $30 million campus in Palo Alto is partially modeled on the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle that God instructed the ancient Israelites to build in the desert. Like that structure, it is twice as long as it is wide, and it includes a sanctuary and a courtyard. Very much unlike the Mishkan, however, it has elevators, locked doors that open with keycards, security cameras and state-of-the-art video streaming equipment befitting a 21st-century synagogue in Silicon Va...