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Jun 12, 2026, 7:07 PM

Charedim and Bibi ‘rightists’? Pull the other one!

On this week's Unholy podcast (Keshet), co-host Yonit Levi ventures that "the charedim have moved to the right. "Well, if you listen to the rhetoric of their leaders, Gafni, Deri et al, they do indeed dutifully talk about the...

Jun 10, 2026, 4:07 AM

Tony winners should stay shtum on politics!

It’s awards week, so it must be political soapbox time. Again. At the Tony Awards on Sunday, America’s joyous celebration of all things theatre, the Best Supporting Actor winner, The Lost Boys star Ali Louis Bourzgui, decided to devote...

May 9, 2026, 12:29 PM

Scarlett Johansson should be on your list

US director Scarlett Johansson during a photocall for the film 'Eleanor the Great' at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 21, 2025. (Sameer AL-DOUMY / AFP)

This Jewish American Heritage Month, the real heroes are those who stand up for being Jewish. These days, that's no small thing

Feb 26, 2026, 4:52 AM

Abandon law, and order leaves too

While India's Prime Minister Modi addressed the Israeli Knesset today, there was a notable, deliberate, absence. Knesset Speaker and Netanyahu acolyte Amir Ohana, in his eagerness to please his boss, had refused to extend the invitation customary on such...

Nov 8, 2025, 11:16 PM

What Netanyahu is breaking doesn’t go back together (ask Al Pacino)

“What got broken here doesn’t go back together.” It might seem a strange juxtaposition, but Benjamin Netanyahu would do well to pay attention to that key line from Michael Mann’s much-underrated 1999 film The Insider. Al Pacino’s character, real-life...

Aug 12, 2025, 12:33 AM

Royal Ballet and opera staffers betray their art

In a statement, the Royal Ballet And Opera has let it be known that the cancellation of plans to bring their new production of Puccini’s Tosca to the Israeli Opera next season has nothing to do with the much-publicised...

Mar 21, 2025, 6:03 PM

The 16th Sheep: Music for the death of democracy?

The popularity of a nostalgia concert resurrecting a long-ago children's album might just be a lament for a lost future

Mar 10, 2025, 1:05 PM

Three videos in a week show an uncaring government

Knesset guards clash with bereaved family members, March 3rd 2025, credit: screenshot/October Council)

A musician -- not Jewish -- once said to me, "I think I understand why there are so many great Jewish violinists. It's because Jews are so ready with their feelings, and the violin nestles right next to the...

Jul 12, 2024, 2:42 PM

5 times the world got it wrong on Gaza (and 3 times before that)

A BBC apology for misreporting on the Gaza War, Nov. 2023 (from the BBC website's Corrections and Clarifications page)

People are quick to believe every bad thing they hear about the only Jewish state, rarely waiting to find out if it is, you know, actually true, before rushing to publish an article or issue a public condemnation. As...

Apr 9, 2024, 1:49 PM

Jewish resonances of Broadway’s ‘Lempicka’

Sometimes a show will strike a chord with you, and sometimes, that chord is uncomfortable, if not atonal. In New York, I was recently invited by a producer friend to see the new show she has brought to Broadway...

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About Me

James Inverne's new novel, 'The Inspired' (an Amazon.com #1 new release) is out now. James is a journalist, playwright and author. He was formerly the Editor of Gramophone Magazine, and Arts Correspondent for TIME Magazine. He has written for many publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Sunday Telegraph, and published seven books. His plays have been produced in London and New York. He has written several films, including two for IMAX Entertainment.

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