It was surely a distressing sign of the times in Canada. Josh Matlow, the councillor who represents the Toronto district of St. Paul’s in city hall, sounded an alarm in his latest newsletter. His informative monthly bulletin usually deals with local community topics ranging from design in public spaces to ravine protection. But in this […]
Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, once enjoyed wide bipartisan support among Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress, but that era of goodwill has virtually vanished, much to Israel’s detriment. Israel’s special relationship with the United States in the past few decades has rested on a foundation of bipartisanship and […]
Philippe LeGuay’s The Story of Annette Zelman is a wrenching, heart-felt drama about the intersection of love and betrayal in Vichy France. Now available on the ChaiFlicks streaming platform, it is based on real events. During the Nazi occupation from 1940 onward, a Jewish fine arts student named Annette Zelman (Ilona Bachelier) fell in love […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer got it right. “There’s no getting away from the fact that this was not a one-off,” he said shortly after two Jewish men were stabbed in broad daylight in London’s heavily Jewish Golders Green district on April 28. “There has been a series of attacks on our Jewish community, particularly […]
Wolfgang Gerhard, 67, drowned off a beach in Bertioga, Brazil, in 1979. His real name was Josef Mengele, a German physician known as the Angel of Death. Mengele was a war criminal who conducted gruesome medical experiments on inmates in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and who funnelled thousands of civilians to oblivion. He carried out […]
Iran was decisively defeated by the United States and Israel in the 40-day war that broke out on February 28. Yet the Iranian regime has not only survived the onslaught, but has seized control of the vital Strait of Hormuz and is implicitly daring U.S. President Donald Trump to restart the war. Not exactly what […]
During the Third Reich, 3,000 out of 65 million Germans were imprisoned for speaking out against Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, a post-war investigator concluded. Which means, of course, that the vast majority of Germans subserviently fell into line with Hitler’s cruel and evil policies. Among the dissenters were a number of men and women from […]
The 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon, which was due to expire on April 26, has been extended by three weeks until May 17. That is the good news. The bad news is that this tenuous truce has already crumbled. U.S. President Donald Trump was instrumental in prolonging the April 16 ceasefire during the second round of […]
Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire is a distinctive, one-of-a-kind film. It was the first Hollywood B-movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. And it was the first feature film to deal directly with the issue of antisemitism in the United States, edging out the more famous Gentleman’s Agreement by a few months. Premiered in […]
Under cover of Israel’s wars in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iran since 2023, the Israeli government has consolidated its control of the West Bank immeasurably. Existing settlements have been expanded. New ones have been built. Unauthorized outposts have been legalized. Evacuated settlements have been reestablished. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition government, which assumed […]