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Finding Your Roots | Alan Dershowitz

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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Read More...

Former Barcelona and Brazil star Dani Alves is sentenced to four years and six months in prison afte

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Dani Alves has been jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of raping a woman at a Spanish nightclub. The disgraced former Barcelona star was told he had been found guilty this morning at the Barcelona court where he was tried earlier this month after being driven to court in a police van. The 40-year-old father-of-two is now facing his first night behind bars as a convicted sex offender. Read More...

Is ashwagandha the new super herb?

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Ashwagandha is an adaptogen: a category of herbs which many have begun referring to as 'super herbs' for their supposedly endless health benefits. Its most celebrated impact is the enhancement of the bodies' ability to respond to stress. Although Soviet Union researchers first coined the term adaptogen in the 1940s, and ashwaganda has been used for centuries in the Ayurvedic healing tradition, this herb has become increasingly popular in the United States in recent years. Read More...

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