The pro-Palestinian protests and encampments that sprung up at American university campuses following the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip were bound to trigger a vigorous backlash. Many Jewish students complained that the shrill anti-Israel rhetoric bordered on or spilled into antisemitism and created a climate […]
Hollywood aficionados are familiar with legendary movie moguls such as Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn or Jack Warner. But they often draw a blank when the brothers Joseph and Nicholas Schenck are mentioned. Their obscurity comes as no surprise, since they were reclusives averse to publicity. Despite their aversion to the spotlight, the Schencks were […]
Is Israel ready and willing to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities? This is not an idle question. It goes to the heart of current tensions in the Middle East. Israel has been contemplating this potentially risky military option for more than a decade. But of late, Israel appears to have moved closer to implementing this objective, […]
The swift collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s secular regime, followed by the rapid emergence of an Islamist government in Damascus, are driving speculation that Israel and Turkey could be on the cusp of a collision course in Syria. Early last month, an Israeli government committee headed by Jacob Nagel, a former high-ranking Israeli army […]
A deranged person like Kanye West, the African American rapper and designer who calls himself Ye, should be ignored. But ignoring him is not really an option. Due to his enormous following on social media and his ability to poison impressionable minds, his antisemitic rants on X and Instagram cannot be blithely disregarded. A few […]
Betty Joan Perske, otherwise known as Lauren Bacall, achieved fame after starring opposite Humphrey Bogart, her future husband, in Howard Hawks’ 1944 romantic thriller, To Have And Have Not. Portraying a sultry seductress in her movie debut, Bacall would appear with Bogart in three more films: The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key […]
Early on the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli soldiers guarding the border along the Gaza Strip noticed signs of an imminent attack. Around the same time, the head of the Israeli army’s Southern Command, General Yaron Finkelman, returned to his post after a vacation. At 6:29 a.m., as several thousand enemy rockets began raining […]
Donald Trump dropped a bombshell during an extraordinary press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on February 4. It sent shock waves across the Middle East, causing a great deal of dismay. In one of the most stunning and far-reaching proposals ever presented by a sitting American president, Trump announced that the U.S. […]
Reason prevailed when Donald Trump, on February 3, pressed the pause button and postponed the imposition of hefty U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports. Temporarily, at least, he thereby averted a nasty trade war that would be damaging to all three countries and the global economy. Trump, however, slapped a 10 percent tariff on […]
The United States recently redesignated the Houthis as a “foreign terrorist organization,” citing the threat they pose to the security and stability of the Middle East. The designation was originally imposed by President Donald Trump during his first term of office. It is richly deserved. The Houthis, a Shi’a tribal group in northern Yemen aligned […]