To put it bluntly, Holocaust denial is the stock-in-trade of antisemites. In their zeal to defame Jews, defend Nazi Germany and rehabilitate Adolf Hitler, they dredge up factually baseless arguments. Their claims are absurd: The number of Jewish victims was drastically inflated to benefit Jews and Israel. Jews succumbed to disease and were not murdered […]
On Sunday, March 1, 1953, Joseph Stalin’s longtime maid, Matryona Petrovna, found him lying on the floor in his library. He was unconscious and his night clothes were drenched in urine. The supreme leader of the Soviet Union had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was at death’s door. Petrovna quickly alerted his guards, who promptly […]
In his prime, from the late 1960s to the opening years of the 21st century, Seymour (Sy) Hersh was one of the great investigative reporters of our times. A dogged journalist with a nose for news, he uncovered the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, […]
The place Israel occupies in the consciousness of the American Jewish community has, alas, become a contentious issue. It is not exactly what early Zionist ideologues had in mind when they dreamed of a Jewish state in Palestine, the ancestral home of the Jewish people. Dov Waxman, an American academic, advances this thesis in his […]
Zosa Szajkowski was one of the strangest, most tragic figures in the annals of academia. A devoted collector of French Judaica and a pioneer in the field of French Jewish history, he moonlighted as a thief, stealing priceless documents from state archives, synagogues and private Jewish libraries and selling them to institutions such as Columbia […]
Bryan Cranston is back in the drug business. In the popular Netflix series, Breaking Bad, he played a high school chemistry teacher who moonlights as a methamphetamine manufacturer and distributor. Now, in Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator, which opens in Canada on August 12, he portrays a U.S. federal agent posing as a money launderer in […]
Capitalism in its rawest incarnation rears its ugly head in Equity, Meera Menon’s Wall Street thriller due to open in Canada on August 12. Tough-minded wheelers and dealers, their eyes on the main chance, appear and reappear in this hard-eyed account of an investment banker eager to advance her career as she cobbles together an […]
Sugar can be a killer, linked as it is to Type 2 diabetes, heart ailments, fatty liver disease and obesity. Excessive consumption of sugar can also lead to the onset of oral health issues such as tooth decay, cavities, and gum disease. Incidentally, whether you are someone who tends to enjoy too many sweet treats […]
We live in a fraught era when Jewish-Muslim tensions are flaring, not only in the Middle East but in European countries such as France. Has this always been the case? Historically, how tolerant of Jews have Muslims been since the birth of Islam in the Arabian peninsula? Bernard Lewis, the distinguished scholar of Middle Eastern […]
They were idealistic left-wing Jews whose overarching objective was to build a “shenere un besere velt,” a more beautiful, better world. Secular in orientation, steeped in socialism, dedicated to the Yiddish language, committed to the Soviet Union as their ideological fatherland and determined to improve the lot of the Jewish working class, they were members […]