A little bit of everything
Larry Luxner is a freelance writer with The Washington Diplomat and former editor of CubaNews. Born and raised in Miami and now based in Israel, Larry has reported from every country in the Western Hemisphere. His specialty is Latin America and the Middle East, and he’s written more than 2,000 articles for publications ranging from National Journal to Saudi Aramco World. Larry also runs an Internet-based stock photo agency at www.luxner.com.
Still in shock, we heard that the hospitals had issued an urgent appeal for blood. We walked along Tel Aviv’s suddenly deserted streets to Sourasky Medical Center—one of the city’s largest hospitals—and there discovered hundreds of Israelis already lined up to donate blood.
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Tel Aviv’s normally packed Namir Road is virtually empty of traffic as people stay home ahead of an expected Hamas
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HAGERSTOWN — For nearly a century, workers at the sprawling Statton furniture factory in Hagerstown crafted traditional solid cherry dressers,
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“Coffee house,” a 1944 sketch by Dutch artist Josef Spier — who was interned at the Theresienstadt Ghetto — is
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The April 16 Ecuador earthquake that devastated towns along the country’s scenic Pacific coast is the worst natural disaster to
Read morePhoto above: Sharon Katz (center, with guitar) and members of The Peace Train’s youth choir perform in South Africa after returning
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WASHINGTON — The last vestige of the Cold War melted away Monday morning, perhaps fittingly, on one of the hottest
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While tensions were heating up in Baltimore last weekend over the death of Freddie Gray, a noisy protest of a
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The National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington DC has just opened a permanent exhibit on domestic terrorism and
Read moreView of Mexico City along Paseo de la Reforma. Last year, Mexico ranked as the third-largest trading partner of the
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