An Israeli documentary, Deep Inside Iran, adds an additional layer of substance and understanding to Israel’s 12-day war with Iran last June. Now available on Izzy, a streaming platform specializing in Israeli films, this 56-minute movie is constructed around an interview with an Iranian Mossad agent who secretly worked inside Iran during that conflict. The […]
Four months after its formation, U.S. President Donald Trump’s  Board of Peace convened its first official meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 17. It went reasonably well, but serious problems lie ahead. Trump, in a flourish of enthusiasm, announced pledges of $7 billion from Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar and $10 billion […]
Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights leader who died on February 17 at the age of 84, had a mercurial relationship with the Jewish community in the United States. An ordained Baptist minister who was born and came of age when segregation and Jim Crow laws and regulations oppressed African Americans, he was a protege […]
Being the president of the United States, the world’s preeminent superpower, Donald Trump acts as if he can arbitrarily impose his views or diktats on whatever nation he fancies. Since his inaugural more than a year ago, he has pressured Canada to relinquish its sovereignty and join the American union as the 51st state and […]
Eli Cohen has been a household name in Israel for decades. Sixty one years after his execution in Damascus, he is remembered as probably the greatest spy who ever worked for the Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence agency. Cohen arrived in Syria, Israel’s virulently hostile neighbor, in 1962 under cover as a Syrian Arab emigre from […]
Donald Trump is engaged in a guessing game with respect to Iran. Since Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters last month, the American president has spoken out from both sides of his mouth about an issue that could well trigger a war in the Middle East. While he has threatened to attack Iran, he has […]
Philip Roth, the late Jewish American novelist and short story writer, was consumed by four related topics — the Jewish community, Israel, the Holocaust and antisemitism. His interlocking  preoccupations were reflected in his breakout novella, Goodbye, Columbus And Five Short Stories and in intense novels such as The Counterlife, Operation Shylock and The Plot Against […]
It is long past time for the Canadian government to release the final report of the Commission of Inquiry On War Criminals In Canada. The commission, whose mandate was to deal with the explosive issue of suspected Nazi war criminals admitted into Canada, was chaired by Jules Deschenes, a retired Quebec Superior Court judge. He […]
The first set of talks between the United States and Iran in nearly a year took place in Oman on February 6 amid mutual mistrust and fears that diplomacy may fail and give way to a renewal of war in the Middle East. Last June, Israel attacked its arch enemy, Iran, bombing its nuclear and […]
Controversial comments by U.S. Vice President JD Vance have set off ripples of unease in the American Jewish community. Vance, a friend of Tucker Carlson — a conservative podcaster  who has been accused of dabbling in antisemitism — has conveyed the impression that he tolerates antisemites in the isolationist “Make America Great Again” wing of […]