"Randolph Parrish is the author of "The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Modern Scottsboro"(2009); "Cancionero", a teen novel; and editor of a one-volume edition of Graetz's "History of the Jews".
Vice President Pence did something unthinkable in Jerusalem last week: he referenced the bible in support of Israel's right to exist.
"The Jewish people held fast to a promise through all the ages, written so long ago, that 'even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,' from there He would gather and bring you back to the land which your fathers possessed."
It was just over ten years ago that the Duke lacrosse case finally dragged its weary way across the finish line. That case was a storm petrel, flying before the thunder. We should have watched its course more carefully, because it was about to become a paradigm of what was to follow.
First there was first an accusation -- that a black woman had been raped by more than 20 white men at a party. After changing her story a few times -- maybe it was only five men; or two -- the accuser finally settled on three.