A profusion of books and monographs has been published on a topic fraught with passion and controversy — American Jews and slavery in the United States. Richard Kreitner is the latest author to enter this field. Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight To End Slavery (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ranges […]
Public opinion polls in Israel indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition is likely to fall short of winning a 61-seat majority in the 120-member Knesset, leaving him unable to form a government after the October 27 general election. The center-right opposition, led by Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, appears to be […]
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor should not be surprised that their controversial documentary, NAZA, has been vociferously condemned by mainstream Israeli leaders. NAZA, which premiered at the recent Venice International Film Festival, claims that Israel loosened its rules of engagement in responding to Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Israel thereby caused the deaths […]
Hamas launched its invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023 with the broad intention of igniting a regional war whose end result would be Israel’s destruction. While Hamas clearly failed to destroy Israel, which has since grown stronger and more assertive, Hamas’ leadership nonetheless managed to drag its allies in Iran’s Axis of Resistance […]
Until about two years ago, I regarded the United States as a friendly neighbor, a nation whose democratic values were in alignment with that of Canada. In this respect, Canada almost seemed like a carbon copy of America. When I crossed the world’s longest undefended border, I did not feel that I had entered an […]
Revenge with a capital R is the theme of the fifth and probable final season of Fauda, the popular Israeli television show created by Lior Raz and Avi Isaacharoff and now available on the Netflix streaming platform. Consisting of eleven episodes, and ably directed by Omri Givon, it is structured around a date and an […]
The current Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labors under the grand illusion that its controversial settlement policy in the occupied West Bank will have no adverse effect on its bilateral relations with foreign countries. On September 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband disabused Israel of its illusion when he lambasted its position […]
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party has entered a stunning new phase in its trajectory toward state and federal power after finishing first in the Saxony-Anhalt election on September 6. Although it did not win an absolute majority, the AfD is close to becoming the first far-right party to govern a German state since the […]
B‘nai Brith Canada for years has sought full access to a report written by historian Alti Rodal for the Commission of Inquiry On War Criminals In Canada. The commission, headed by Jules Deschenes, was charged with investigating allegations that the Canadian government admitted European collaborators who committed crimes against humanity on behalf of Nazi Germany […]
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, is flogging a dead horse. Ben Gvir, the leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party, is trying to revive a dangerous idea that has no chance of being implemented and, furthermore, would bring the wrath of the region and the international community on Israel. On September 3, he […]