Israel and the United States are alarmingly at odds over Israel’s current military operation in Rafah that the Israeli government correctly considers crucial to the success of its protracted air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip. The Biden administration, having registered its disapproval of it, has delayed the delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel, […]
Israeli forces have entered the eastern quarter of Rafah and seized a critical border crossing through which international aid flows into the Gaza Strip. Although its armored incursion falls short of its long-anticipated invasion of Rafah, Hamas’ last urban stronghold in Gaza, the movement of Israeli troops and tanks into that city has already triggered […]
The highly-acclaimed Polish television series, Wartime Girls, has reached its fifth and final season. This is regrettable because it has been a stellar production from start to finish in every respect. The concluding 13 episodes, which are available on the ChaiFlicks streaming platform from May 8 onward, bring the story to a close. Wartime Girls, […]
Herman (Chamel) Weinstein, my uncle, was the last member of his extended family to leave this vale of tears. Herman died on May 1, exactly 104 years after his birth in Poland. Having reached a very ripe old age, he lived way past his “expiry” date, at least as far as his Nazi tormentors were […]
As the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip drags on and as current hostage negotiations unfold in Cairo, Palestinian encampments have been sprouting up like dandelions at scores of universities across the United States and Canada. Three days ago, Palestinian students at the University of Toronto, the largest institution of higher learning in Canada, set […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pro-Palestinian proclivities have once again driven him to downgrade Turkey’s bilateral relations with Israel. On May 2, the Turkish Ministry of Trade announced that “export and import transactions in relation to Israel have been stopped, covering all products.” Turkey said its trade suspension will remain in place until Israel allows […]
According to James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank, he was the greatest banker of his generation. Edmond J. Safra, the object of his admiration, was the founder and chief executive officer of the Republic National Bank of New York, the Banco Safra in Brazil, the Trade Development Bank in Geneva, and Safra […]
Columbia University in New York City has done the right thing. It has confronted head-on an explosive issue that currently faces universities across North America. In decisive fashion, it has dealt firmly with lawless pro-Palestinian students and outside agitators/subversives who had illegally set up an encampment on its grounds, who had barricaded themselves in a […]
The war that Israel has been waging against Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip since last October has raised some unsettling issues and truths. Since its eruption, we have seen that a minority of Jews in the United States are anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian. Jewish Voice for Peace has mounted demonstrations calling for […]
Three Nazi extermination camps were built in German-occupied Poland to murder Polish Jews on a systematic basis. The first one, Belzec, was 125 kilometres southeast of Lublin. The second one, Sobibor, was near Chelm and northeast of Lublin. The third one, Treblinka, was about 100 kilometres northeast of Warsaw. Situated on or close to major […]