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Ben Bender played a season with the Union U14s in 2015-16

Ben Bender, Daniel Bloyou, Ivy Brisma, Seth Kuhn, Emmanuel Perez and Nyk Sessock all spent time with the Union prior to college

Eighth LAPD Officer Dies Due To COVID-19 Complications An eighth Los Angeles Police Department officer has died from complications due to COVID-19, the department announced Monday. Officer Becky Strong, who joined the department in 1994, died early Monday after several days in the hospital. She worked as a police officer for 27 years. She was last assigned to the South Traffic Division. “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we mourn the loss of LAPD Police Officer Becky Strong, who passed away this morning from complications of COVID-19,” LAPD said in a tweet. “Our deepest condolenc...

“The Middle East conflict is a chicken-and-egg conundrum fraught with political, historical and religious legacies,” a reader writes. Also: Resistance to a Jan. 6 commission; low birthrates.

How the ADL’s Israel Advocacy Undermines Its Civil Rights Work This report will appear in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to get a copy in your mailbox. IN THE SUMMER OF 2016, a handful of senior Anti-Defamation League (ADL) staff members and executives in New York and Washington, DC joined a conference call to discuss a sensitive topic: the organization’s position on what would come to be known as the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. The bill would amend federal civil rights law to employ a controversial definition of antisemitism, which included “delegitimiz[ing]” Israel, blaming I...