Since 1973, Israel has won the Eurovision Song Contest four times. At the last competition in May, the Israeli singer Yuval Raphael finished in second place. Yet due to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and the outrage over the humanitarian crisis there, the public broadcasters of Ireland and the Netherlands recently announced that […]
In her debut as a director, Scarlett Johansson delivers a generally absorbing movie about Holocaust memory, identity and grief. Eleanor the Great stars June Squibb as Eleanor Morgenstein, a spry and feisty 94-year-old widow whose life is upended when Bessie Stern (Rita Zohar), her roommate and best friend, dies. Bessie’s passing compells her to leave […]
President Emmanuel Macron of France has initiated a diplomatic process that brings Palestinian statehood one step closer to fruition yet still very far from realization. Yesterday, at a followup United Nations conference on a two-state solution, Macron spelled out his objective. “The time has come to do justice for the Palestinian people and thus to […]
Maliciously false accusations that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been flying thick and fast since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. South Africa levelled that calumny at the International Court of Justice more than a year ago. A few days ago, Bernie Sanders became the […]
Noel Debre’s French-language movie, A Nice Jewish Boy, deals candidly and fearlessly with a topic that some might prefer to sweep under the rug — the antisemitism that seethes in the “projects” of Paris, the ethnically Arab/Muslim neighborhoods populated by a dwindling number of Jews. This somber film premieres on VOD and all leading digital […]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded a visit to Israel on an upbeat note, reiterating Israel’s status as America’s major ally in the Middle East. Speaking a day before Israel officially launched its long-awaited invasion of Gaza City and the United Nations human rights council released a report accusing Israel of committing genocide in […]
Jan Grabowski, the Polish Canadian historian, grapples with an extremely sensitive topic in his latest book, Whitewash: Poland And The Jews (New Jewish Press/University of Toronto). A specialist in Polish-Jewish relations during World War II, he examines the degree to which the previous right-wing government in Poland attempted to control the narrative regarding the role […]
As one Western country after another recognizes the increasingly popular but polarizing idea of Palestinian statehood, Israel takes tangible and controversial steps to sabotage it. In the past few weeks, France, Britain, Canada, Australia and Belgium have joined close to 150 countries that already have recognized a Palestinian state within the framework of a two-state […]
Israel’s audacious strike in Qatar on September 9 is one more tangible sign that it has revamped its military doctrine since Hamas’ bloody rampage on October 7, 2023. Having been caught by surprise by Hamas’ onslaught, Israel has acted preemptively and decisively to weaken its enemies in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Yemen. […]
Alex Kurzem was a very, very unusual Holocaust survivor. He survived as a mascot in a Latvian police unit that had been implicated in the mass murder of Jews. Dan Goldberg, an Australian journalist, tells his amazing story in The Jewish Nazi?, a documentary that will be available on major digital platforms from September 12 […]