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by Jesse Zel Lurie HER NAME was Sarah Rose, after her grandmother, Sura Raisel, who never left Poland and was lost in the Holocaust. His name was Ismail, nickname Izzy. He was an Arab-American, the son of a Brooklyn restaurant owner born in Haifa when its population was mostly Arab. They met at Cornell University […]
Read MoreThe following is a speech that Bernie Sanders says he would have given at AIPAC had he not been scheduled to speak, instead, at a school in Utah — where he delivered it. Thanks to The Shalom Center for posting it widely. I WAS INVITED along with other presidential candidates to be at the AIPAC […]
Read Moreby Allan C. Brownfeld THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the American Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has attracted almost 20,000 people to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital. Every presidential candidate — except Bernie Sanders — is appearing as speaker, along with Vice President Joe Biden. As a result of AIPAC’s influence (it […]
Read Moreby Dusty Sklar IT WAS my daughter-in-law, Nikki Pusin, who brought it to my attention, just as her father, Max Pusin, had brought it to hers years before — that the world-revered Gandhi had a puzzling relationship to the Holocaust. In 1947, interviewed by Louis Fischer, author of The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi said: […]
Read Moreby Hillel Schenker IT’S BEEN A TERRIBLE few days in my two cities, Jerusalem where I work and Tel Aviv where I live. On late Monday afternoon as I was about to leave the Palestine-Israel Journal office, my colleague Marwan got a phone call that there had been an incident near Damascus Gate: A Palestinian […]
Read MorePolish-born Nathan Yellin-Mor (Friedman), a leader of the so-called “Stern Gang” (Lohamel Herut Israel), the rightwing Jewish militia of pre-state Palestine that was responsible for several atrocities, including (with Irgun) the Deir Yassin massacre, died at 67 on this date in 1980. Yellin-Mor was arrested by the British in Syria in 1941 while he was […]
Read Moreby Esther Cohen Reviewed in this article: Colliding Dreams, a documentary film by Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky. International Film Circuitm 2015, 134 minutes. IT’S HARD just to say the word ‘Zionism’ without generating a heated conversation. Yet the terms of that conversation have dramatically changed in recent years, with the entrenchment of rightwing leadership […]
Read Moreby Ralph Seliger Discussed in this essay: Rabin, The Last Day, a film by Amos Gitai. Anthos Media, 2015, 153 minutes. WE ALL KNOW what happened to Yitzhak Rabin on his last day, but there is some dispute as to why. Amos Gitai, a highly respected filmmaker, blends dramatic recreations with some on-the-scene footage […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush KHANIKE GELT — SMALL GIFTS OF MONEY — HAS ROOTS IN DAYS OF JEWISH POVERTY when children rarely had a penny of their own. It was also a means of paying kheyder teachers and helping them get around the halakhic injunction against profiting from the teaching of Torah. In contemporary times of […]
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