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January 21, 2015
Alberto Nisman: The 86th victim of the Buenos Aires bombing
The murder this week of Alberto Nisman —and now even the Argentine president has acknowledged his death was no suicide — was every bit as shocking and anti-Semitic a crime as the attacks two weeks ago in Paris.
French police foiled terrorist plot on anti-Semitism forum
Suspected jihadists arrested last year in Lyon were planning to carry out a terrorist attack at a Jewish group’s conference on anti-Semitism.
Barbara Boxer and the democratization of California politics
In 1992, California voters elected two Jewish women to the U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.
What we talk about when we talk about anti-Semitism
In summer 2014, Muslims attacked Jewish sites in Paris in connection to Israel’s bombing of Gaza. This month, the French Jews killed in Hyper Cacher were buried in Israel.
Bombing the death camps during World War II
Every decade, someone indignantly tells us that the United States and Britain should have bombed the rail lines at Auschwitz and other death camps during World War II.
Damian Szifron: Argentina’s very Jewish Oscar nominee
If Damian Szifron’s “Wild Tales” (“Relatos Salvajes” in Spanish) wins an Academy Award on Feb. 22 – it was nominated last week for Best Foreign Film — it will be Argentina’s third Oscar and the first for a film directed by an Argentine Jew.
The folly of partition: ICC ruling seals fate of Gaza residents
The International Criminal Court\’s (ICC) announcement that it would pursue a war crimes probe against Israel over the summer war in Gaza is but the latest twist in the quixotic quest to end the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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