McGill University has finally cracked down on Palestinian students and their supporters who create chaos on campus. Earlier this month, the Montreal university terminated its contractual relationship with the Students’ Society of McGill (SSMU) following a three-day anti-Israel strike that led to vandalism and a disruption of classes. On April 11, McGill went one step […]
Israel and Turkey have taken the first concrete step to reduce tensions over their respective interests in Syria. Yesterday, Israeli and Turkish delegations conferred in Azerbaijan for talks to head off incidents that could degenerate into full-blown clashes between Israel and Turkey. “Under the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a political-security delegation led by […]
Compared to his upbeat meeting with Donald Trump in Washington in February, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most recent encounter with the U.S. president was generally disappointing. Netanyahu arrived at the White House on March 7, fresh from a successful visit to Hungary, whose illiberal president, Viktor Orban, is aligned with Israel and the United States […]
Sex trafficking boomed in 19th and 20th century Argentina, and many of its participants were Jewish immigrants from the Russian empire and independent Poland. Daniel Najenson’s disturbing documentary, The Impure, which is now available on the ChaiFlicks streaming platform, explores this seamy and lucrative trade, which reached a seemingly unstoppable trajectory between the 1880s and […]
Pandemics have shaped the world and Jews, in particular, have been victimized by them. Jeremy Brown, the author of The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to Covid-19 (Oxford University Press), argues that pandemics, such as the bubonic plague and typhus, have impacted Jews profoundly. “It was a story of which I was […]
Israel has never been as internally divided as it is today. The divisions that are tearing Israel apart could, in the worst-case scenario, lead to something approaching a civil war. The current tensions have been compared to the disastrous conflicts that preceded the Roman conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in […]
Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) was megastar long before the dawn of television and the emergence of the digital era. A standup comedian, film actor, screenwriter, singer and songwriter, his star shone brightly from the 1920s until the 1950s. He starred in a number of light-weight Hollywood movies, and one of them, Thank Your Lucky Stars — […]
The International Conference on Combating Antisemitism took place in Jerusalem a few days ago, highlighting the growing alliance between Israel and far-right political parties in Europe and underscoring Israel’s increasingly strained relations with its traditional Western allies. Organized by Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party, it created […]
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which I recently had the pleasure of watching, paints a vivid and sympathetic portrait of the brilliant American theoretical physicist whose stellar scientific team created the first nuclear weapon. This 179-minute feature film, the winner of seven Academy Awards in 2023, focuses on Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project. […]
A new television series from Argentina, Family Therapy, an appealing melange of comedy and drama, is now available on the ChaiFlicks streaming platform. Set in contemporary Buenos Aires, and revolving around a secular Jewish family caught up in a crisis caused by the passing of a beloved relative, it is consistently entertaining. The central characters, […]