Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president-elect, is regarded as a “reformer” in some Western circles. Within the strict parameters of Iranian politics, this could even be true. Compared to his staunchly conservative predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May along with the Iranian foreign minister, and to his hard-line opponent, Saeed Jalili, […]
Nine months into the Israel-Hamas war, one of the longest and most arduous in Israeli history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have reached a crossroads. Should he carry on relentlessly until Israel’s main objectives are achieved? Victory would mean the elimination of Hamas as a military and political force in the Gaza Strip and […]
A multitude of voters, particularly Jews, reacted nervously to the inconclusive outcome of the second round of the parliamentary election in France on July 7. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, which finished first in last week’s opening round and was forecast to form a majority government before yesterday’s runoff, wound up in third place with […]
Fashion designer/mogul Diane Von Furstenberg has been around the block more than once. “I’ve had a full life,” she says in a new documentary now streaming on the Hulu platform. “I’m 76. I should be 300.” In Diane Von Furstenberg:Woman in Charge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton present their subject as a clever, creative, driven […]
Two months after having planted an unauthorized and illegal encampment in the heart of the University of Toronto, Palestinian students and their coterie of supporters reluctantly dismantled it on a cloudy day on July 3 drenched by high humidity. I arrived at King’s College Circle nearly three hours before the encampment there was legally due […]
The abduction and show trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann transfixed Israel in the early 1960s. Captured by a Mossad team in Argentina, where he had fled after World War II, he was one of the major figures in the implementation of the Holocaust. Israelis, particularly survivors of the Shoah, were caught up by […]
Algiers was a major trading port in the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the Napoleonic wars in the late 18th century and four decades into the next century. Merchant ships brought in a constant flow of luxury goods prized by the ruling Turkish elite, stevedores loaded outgoing vessels with Algerian grain, wool, meat, leather […]
The Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip has unleashed a torrent of veiled or explicit antisemitism on American university campuses, which are supposed to be bastions of rational discourse, ethnic and racial diversity and religious tolerance. Judging by a recent Anti-Defamation League survey, 73 percent of Jewish college students experienced or witnessed some form of […]
Approximately one million Jews from the former Soviet Union have immigrated to Israel in the past 30 years. They have adapted remarkably well to their new environment, but the integration process usually has been bumpy. Sovietzka, a fresh new Israeli comedy with dark undertones, grapples with this topic through the lens of the Goldenberg family […]
The first televised candidates’ debate preceeding the next U.S. presidential election in November was a disaster. On June 27, Joe Biden, the oldest president in American history, locked horns with Donald Trump, his Republican predecessor who seeks another four-year term in the White House. Their encounter confirmed widespread fears that neither of them is suitable […]