If the English-language Israeli news is to be believed,* Israel is turning into one giant patisserie-fromagerie. French Jews are everywhere, arriving either as immigrants or as tourists. But what...
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In defense of “arsim”
The world is now split between those who want Israel to go on existing and those who do not. That’s just how it is, and to go on proving that this is the case is a waste of time. We need to...
“That’s right!”
Philosopher-king of the French Jews, alleged example of the height of male beauty, and sometimes “expert” on the United States, Bernard-Henri Lévy is, at this very moment, my hero, who I...
“La Petite Jérusalem”
For audiences looking to see a French movie, 2005’s “La Petite Jérusalem,” showing again next week at Makor in NYC, provides some of the staples. Good-looking naked women appear...
Veganism’s sudden appeal
It’s a well-known fact that trayf is defined as such in part for religious reasons, but also in part because its consumption causes news stories like this. But now Gawker informs us that...
When Zionism was a twinkle in Herzl’s eye…
100 years ago last month, Alfred Dreyfus was finally declared innocent and reinstated into the French armed forces. Everything for the Jews of France went, of course, happily ever after. French Jews...