The mists of time have obscured the life of Souad Zaki, a largely forgotten Egyptian Jewish entertainer who achieved a measure of fame in her country and the Arab world during the 1940s. Egypt, A Love Story, a bitter-sweet documentary, recounts the trajectory of her relatively short-lived career as an alluring chanteuse and movie actress. […]
There is finally light at the end of the tunnel. Israel’s two-year war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, sparked by Hamas’ invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, appears to have belatedly drawn to a close thanks to a 20-point peace plan devised by U.S. President Donald Trump and his aides. Trump and […]
The Hebrew language documentary, Air Born, delves beneath the surface to examine a little-known facet of the Israeli Air Force, the backbone of Israel’s armed forces. Now available on Izzy, an Israeli streaming platform, this intriguing film looks at the IAF through the eyes of men and women who were raised on its bases between […]
Two years ago today, I was awakened by my wife with the startling news that Israel was at war. Hamas had attacked southern Israel in an unprecedented rampage of murder, rape and pillage that caught Israel unprepared in an intelligence failure of epic proportions. The invasion launched by 3,800 Hamas terrorists led to the deaths […]
This was a terrorist attack that Jews in Britain dreaded. Jews, representing less than one percent of Britain’s population, feared that an antisemitic lunatic would launch a murderous rampage aimed at their 280,000-strong community. On October 2, on the morning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, their worst fears materialized when […]
Stella Goldschlag was both a victim and a perpetrator in Nazi Germany. As a Jew, she was constantly persecuted and in danger of being deported to a concentration camp in Poland. Yet because she turned in Jews to the Gestapo to save herself and her parents, she became a Nazi collaborator and an infamous traitor. […]
Donald Trump’s ambitious 20-point peace plan to end the nearly two-year-old war in the Gaza Strip is broadly in line with Israel’s interests and brings Hamas one step closer to defeat on the battlefield. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the proposal, which, he acknowledged, “achieves our war aims.” Hamas is reviewing the plan, but […]
Iran’s nuclear program was seriously degraded by Israel and the United States in massive air strikes this past June, but Iran may still be able to rebuild it. The Iranian regime publicly denies that it seeks nuclear weapons, claiming they do not align with the tenets of Islam. Yet Iran, contrary to the 2015 nuclear […]
Barry Avrich’s absorbing and uplifting documentary, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, focuses on a shining episode in a chapter of darkness. At the center of it is Noam Tibon, a retired Israeli army general who heroically braved immense danger to save his family on October 7, 2023, a day of infamy in Israel’s […]
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 […]