Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?
Jan 7, 2009 Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of President Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state? It is not.
Yet Another Faux Memoir Exposed
Dec 30, 2008 The fluidity of memory aside, this is getting a little strange: Following in the footsteps of James Frey, Misha Defonseca and Margaret Seltzer, yet another "memoirist," Herman Rosenblat, has admitted that his supposedly true story, "Angel at the Fence," is a bit lacking in the truth department.
Tragedy Repeats Itself
Dec 28, 2008 With Gaza exploding in violence and the eyes of the world fixed once again on the Middle East, "Waltz With Bashir" may be the most important movie of the season. As an "animated documentary," it's also in a genre all its own.
Ahmadinejad’s Christmas Speech Raises Ruckus
Dec 26, 2008 Britain's Channel 4 has a tradition of featuring an alternative Christmas message as a kind of counterpoint to Queen Elizabeth's customary speech, and this year's speaker -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- is sparking outrage.
John Holmes on ‘The Lost Spy’
Oct 3, 2008 Former Time correspondent Andrew Meier presents a riveting exhumation of the previously unknown story of Cy Oggins, an early American-Jewish communist who spied for the Soviets and was killed by them in 1947.
McCain Rejects Hagee
May 23, 2008 With the nomination well in hand, John McCain has at last rejected the endorsement of pastor John Hagee, who once suggested that the Holocaust was a case of divine providence. McCain stood by Hagee in the past, when the minister's incendiary remarks about Catholicism and the supposedly divine cause of Hurricane Katrina first came to light.
Israel Turns 60
May 8, 2008 Israelis have begun celebrating their nation's diamond anniversary with fireworks and public cheer. The Jewish state was founded shortly after World War II and has known almost constant conflict as well as remarkable growth in the decades since. Many Palestinians, who refer to the country's founding as "the Catastrophe," are preparing to mark the occasion with something less than delight.
The World as It Is
Mar 10, 2008 War creates a world without empathy. Those who have empathy cannot, as did Palestinian gunman Alaa Hisham Abu Dheim, coldly murder students in a Jerusalem library. Those who have empathy cannot drop tons of iron fragmentation bombs on crowded Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza, killing more than 120 Palestinians in a week, of whom one in five were children and more than half were civilians.
Anne Frank: The Musical
Feb 23, 2008 There's an adage that cautions against making jokes about such categorically unfunny topics as the Holocaust but how about making musicals? This just in: The BBC brings word from Spain of the staging of a new musical, "Anne Frank: A Song to Life," which at times features "Kitty," a perhaps unwisely (and too literally) conceived character.
