Ceci n’est pas un prophète Last Week, Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, released an issue “edited” by a fake depiction of some religion’s founding Prophet. The cover...
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Galliano Guilty Verdict for Racist Rants
Former chief fashion designer at Christian Dior, John Galliano, was found guilty of making “public insults” based on origin, religion, race or authenticity after an incident where he...
Lars Lies At Cannes; Nesher Honest in NYC
Lars Von Trier, a Danish filmmaker and provocateur, was banished from the Cannes Film Festival this week, because his comments in support of Hitler were found to be distasteful. This same week, Avi...
French Bestseller Cries Out Against… Israel
Indigène, a small publisher in France has issued a slim book of 29 pages with just 13 pages of text. The publisher is used to press runs of under 700 copies. But this book has already sold 600,000...
I can’t believe no one’s written about Gad Elmaleh
Hi, it’s me again. I’ve been away, but now I’m back. I blame Jersey Shore. Here’s a review I wrote for one of the movies I saw in the DC Jewish Film Festival in December...
French Action Against Hamas
For those unaware, Hamas runs a television station known as al-Aksa TV. This station is used by Hamas for propaganda purposes, including children’s TV shows which incite violence against and...
Presumption of Innocence: Accused bomber to resume teaching
Meet Ottawa academic Hassan Diab. Thirty years ago, in the first attack against the French Jewish community since the Nazi era, 4 people were murdered in an explosion at a synagogue on the Rue...