Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, has been touted as a possible candidate for his party’s 2024 presidential nomination. Judging by a recent incident in the sunshine state, he should definitely be removed from the list of contenders. The reason is clear. On January 29 and 30, 15 to 20 neo-Nazis gathered on a […]
The undercurrents of Ukraine’s current border tensions with Russia are lapping ominously on Israel’s shores. With about 130,000 Russian troops and armor massed along Ukraine’s frontier, fears are growing that Russia may invade Ukraine. Russia denies the accusation, but the United States and its allies are skeptical and believe an invasion could be imminent. Russian President […]
Schwartz’s Jewish-style delicatessen on St. Laurent Boulevard in Montreal is not merely a restaurant but an institution. It’s immensely popular with locals and foreign visitors. On a normal day, you have you wait in line outside on the street before you’re ushered in. It’s a small and intimate place, with tables and chairs on the […]
Shimon Hayut, alias Simon Leviev and David Sharon, is a notorious swindler. Posing as the son of a prominent Israeli diamond dealer, he wormed himself into the lives of guillable single European women and cheated them out of millions of dollars in what can only be described as a romantic Ponzi scheme. Hayut’s career as […]
Harry Frank Guggenheim was an American capitalist titan who guided his immensely wealthy family into modernity. He was also a visionary who foresaw that aviation would be fundamental to the transportation infrastructure of the United States and a financial backer of the father of modern rocketry, Robert Goddard. In addition, he was instrumental in the […]
Two strangers meet in a compartment of a train bound from Moscow to Murmansk in the dead of winter. Laura (Seidi Haarla) is a Finnish student. Ljoha (Yuriy Boris) is a Russian miner. They do not like each other at first sight and dread the countless hours they will have to spend together in cramped […]
Amnesty International’s controversial report labelling Israel as an “apartheid” state did not surprise the Israeli government in the least. On January 3, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said, “We think that in the coming year, there will be a debate that is unprecedented in its venom and in its radioactivity around the words ‘Israel as an […]
I cringed after reading Whoopi Goldberg’s recent remarks about the Holocaust, but I also felt sorry and embarrassed for her. Appearing on the ABC talk show The View on January 31, the American actress and comedian claimed the Holocaust was about “man’s inhumanity to man” and “not about race.” Goldberg made these utterly inane observations […]
Jeffery Robinson, the writer and narrator of Who Are We: A Chronicle of Racism in America, does not mince words. “America is one of the most racist countries on earth,” he says in the first few minutes of this hard-hitting documentary, which opens in Toronto on February 4. Elaborating on this claim, he contends that the […]
My Best Friend Anne Frank, a Dutch film being streamed on Netflix, offers insights into the best-known victim of the Holocaust. Hannah Goslar was Anne’s closest friend. Like Anne, she was a German Jew whose family had been forced out of Nazi Germany and had resettled in Holland. In Ben Sombogaart’s one-hour-and-forty-three minute film, which […]