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Jan 7, 2025, 3:31 AM

The Jews of Syria, seen through the looking glass

Bakhour Chamntoub, 74, right, the head of the Jewish community in Syria and one of the people who refused to leave Syria despite opportunities abroad and the nearly 14-year-old war, speaks with a Syrian man during his visit to the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in the Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

The Syrian Jewish population was successfully removed - all but 9 Jews. So why is the Western press intent on depicting a sizable, functioning community?

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 27, 2024, 10:58 PM

Trump will use protecting Jews as an excuse to go after democracy and immigrants

Gentile Whites, beware and resist! It is now well known that Jew-hatred is like an ever-morphing virus. So is Philosemitism. Philosemitism is liking Jews for stereotypes (They all play the violin so beautifully) or pretending to favor the Jews to...

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

Sep 13, 2024, 6:55 PM

80 Years After Le Havre’s Liberation

Commemorating the Liberation Yesterday, September 12, Le Havre marked the 80th anniversary of its liberation. President Emmanuel Macron, invited by Le Havre’s mayor Edouard Philippe, a potential successor, paid tribute to a city that had been completely destroyed by the...

Jul 25, 2024, 5:33 AM

The Politics of the Palestinian Refugee Status

The Palestinian "right of return" is a concept that has been a major sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's time we look at it from an honest perspective—especially considering the Jewish refugees who fled Arab lands at the...

Jul 24, 2024, 1:26 PM

Our Shared Destiny

Israel, a remarkable people passionate, opinionated always pushing forward with equanimity despite everything. The national tragedy still hanging like heavy curtains at the theater The personal tragedies playing out like live drama sequels on replay Grieving families, with sons, daughters, spouses lodged inside their thoughts, dreams, emotions, and prayers, like stencils, the imprint...

Jul 7, 2024, 7:25 AM

Austria 1945: Interrogating the Composer

The investigator on the rough roads of Austria.

In Eric Leiseroff’s last years, I worked with the White Plains, NY, resident on his memoirs. Titled “This Country Gave Me Life!” this historic document covers his early years in Dresden, leaving Germany in June 1941 with his mother...

Jul 5, 2024, 3:30 PM

Tell Labour about ethnically cleansed Mideast Jews

The results of the British Jewish election are in: a landslide victory for the Labour party. Will it be good for the Jews? The Jewish vote will have reflected the national trend of a swing to Labour, but many Jews...

Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 17, 2024, 9:42 PM

No, I don’t have children or grandchildren serving in the army. They are either too old or too young. No, I am not living in a city suffering daily rocket fire. There have been sporadic sirens, “nerve,” not earth-shattering. No, my...

May 21, 2024, 12:24 AM

Tracking My Photo Rebbe, Budapest’s Robert Capa

The trail of legendary photographer Robert Capa begins in Budapest, Hungary, which I visited last month with my partner Naomi. As a devoted fan of Capa’s work, I was eager to explore the city where he was born in...

Danielle Sobkin

May 19, 2024, 8:07 AM

UC Berkeley to Beyond

Since I'm considered 'too political' of a graduate for UC Berkeley's commencement speeches, I'd like to share the speech I hoped to give at my graduation ceremony. I want to start with a confession. One that might have the admissions...

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