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Feb 15, 2025, 10:37 PM

From bro to foe – JD Vance’s Realpolitik meets EU World

U.S. Vice President JD Vance's 19-and-a-half-minute speech at the recent Munich Security Conference has ignited a firestorm of controversy among European leaders and analysts. In his address, Vance asserted that Europe's primary threats are internal, citing issues like censorship and...

Madelon Rosen-Solomon

Jan 29, 2025, 10:46 PM

A Wandering Jew in Dystopia America Sees Her Options

I write this column in the second week of the second (G-d help us) Trump presidency. I have never felt more of a stranger in my birth-country than now. Could this really be happening? Am I now in some...

Jun 13, 2023, 3:44 PM

As Happy as God in Paris: Visiting Homeland. Part II

Marc Chagall Hall at the Litvak Artists in Paris exhibition at the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius. May - September 2023. Photo: Gintare Grigenaite. (C) Lithuanian National Museum of Art. With kind permission

LITVAK ARTISTS IN PARIS EXHIBITION IN VILNIUS PART II. CELEBRATIONS & CHAGALL UNIVERSE Part I of the essay can be read here. Celebrations: Blatas, Chwoles and Kikoine In a remarkable way, additionally to the feast of Chagall, this exhibition also created three very...

Jun 12, 2023, 5:56 PM

As Happy As God in Paris: Visiting Homeland. Part I.

Litvak Artists in Paris exhibition at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum, National Museum of Art, Vilnius. Lithuania. Photo: Gintare Grigenaite. (C) National Museum of Art of Lithuania. With kind permission.

LITVAK ARTISTS IN PARIS EXHIBITION IN VILNIUS PART I. GEMS & DISCOVERIES Alone with Chagall If this exhibition were to be on display in Paris or New York, the queues and hype there would be the same as at the Vermeer show...

Jan 10, 2023, 9:36 PM

The Pelta Story – Escape to Barnovich (chapter 9)

Grandma ran away from Tomazow Poland to Russia with Szana Freida (and another sister). Brother in-law, Yakov Biderman refused to escape. He insisted that he would always have enough time to escape and run away in the future. Grandma...

Maxim D. Shrayer

Nov 8, 2022, 10:00 AM

The Shepherd, the Hostage, or the Deliverer?

In part 1 and part 2 of this essay I argued that, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rabbis in Russia and Ukraine found themselves on opposite sides of justice. The spirit of trenchant refusal to leave Russia, coupled with...

Sophia Tupolev-Luz

Nov 8, 2022, 7:15 AM

15 minutes to turn an outsider into an insider

Tens of thousands of people have come to Israel since the start of the war in Ukraine – our organization needs help finding tech jobs for displaced professionals

Andy Blumenthal

Oct 23, 2022, 5:54 AM

The Iranian Malachi Crunch

Iran has been “playing” the Malachi Crunch for some time against Israel. Anyone who watched the TV series Happy Days will likely remember the episode with the Malachi Crunch. This was where in a demolition derby, the Malachi brothers...

Aug 25, 2022, 6:15 PM

Why Israel Sells Weapons Human Rights Abusers

When I told people that I was writing my dissertation on Israeli arms sales to Asia, people always told me, “We all know it’s because of money.” The more complex answer is that while money is a part, there...

Dmitri Shufutinsky

Apr 4, 2022, 7:44 PM

The Blessing of Being an American-Soviet-Israeli

This title seems like an oxymoron, doesn't it? Someone who is an American oleh to the Jewish state, with a name like Dmitri Alexander Shufutinsky? In my experience as a Lone Soldier in the army, sometimes people didn't know where to put...

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