In an unprecedented request, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked President Isaac Herzog for a pardon. If granted, it would absolve him of criminal charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust in three separate but related cases. Netanyahu claims that a positive response from Herzog would have a beneficial effect on healing divisions in […]
The Palestinian Authority hopes to supplant Hamas as the governing power in the Gaza Strip and play a central role in the second phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. This may be a bridge too far as matters stand today. The Israeli government opposes the participation of the PA in the future […]
It was unlike any day in Israel’s history. On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel, unleashing an atrocity on a scale that Jews thought was no longer possible after Israel’s creation in 1948. Israel was caught “completely by surprise,” write Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot in […]
When the Israeli filmmaker Ofer Freiman met Cleofas (Cleo), his wife Anita and their brood of 15 children, they were living on an isolated farm in the southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The descendants of Sephardi Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity hundreds of years ago, they were drawn back to […]
The second and last season of House of Promises, a fine German television series about the Jewish proprietor of a department store in a working-class district of Berlin, gets under way as Germany lurches toward the abominable Nazi era. In the first six episodes of the debut season, which appeared on the ChaiFlicks streaming platform, […]
The ceasefire that was supposed to end the war in Lebanon has effectively broken down as Israel continues to attack Hezbollah operatives and military infrastructure on almost a daily basis. In its latest operation, on November 23, Israel killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, the former commander of the Radwan Force, a special […]
The conservative movement in the United States, which is exemplified by President Donald Trump’s administration these days, is being buffeted by a growing debate over the U.S.’ alliance with Israel and accusations that some of its supporters are unfriendly toward the American Jewish community. The rift on the right between pro and anti-Israel conservatives exploded […]
When he resumed office as Israeli prime minister in December 2022 after an interlude of about a year in the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu said that one of his main foreign policy goals was to reach a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia within the framework of the 2020 Abraham Accords. In an interview with the Saudi […]
Nearly six months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, both sides are on the cusp of renewing the fighting. Judging by the bellicose statements emanating from Jerusalem and Tehran since June, a second Israel-Iran war could well break out. Shortly after declaring victory in Operation Rising Lion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
There have been no shortage of books about Jews in Canada in the past three decades. What comes to mind are the following: None Is Too Many, by Harold Troper and Irving Abella; The Jews in Canada, edited by Robert J. Brym, William Shaffir and Morton Weinfeld; Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish […]