“Our long national nightmare is finally over.” Those were the words spoken by Gerald Ford as he took office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, almost forty years ago. He was, of...
Tag - Gil Tanenbaum
The New Cinema City Jerusalem and Two Movie Reviews: Makom Be-Gan Eden and Hahi Shehozeret Habaita
I remember when I was eighteen and a student in Jerusalem, there were no fewer than ten different movies to see at any time in the downtown area, including at the five theater Orion, fifteen if you...
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: a Zionist Polemic, by Hillel Halkin: a Book Review
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist Polemic, by Hillel Halkin, Geffen Books, 2013, 246 pages. Hillel Halkin was born in 1939 and moved to Israel in 1970. He is an author, a translator and...
Rabbi Tovia Singer and the Threat of Messianism
I remember when I was in high school – it was a private Jewish school – there was a special assembly one day where a man came to speak about religious cults. The school wanted to be sure to educate...
Ariel Sharon 1928 – 2014
I have always had mixed feelings about Ariel Sharon. Never one to fall in with the Israeli tradition of the cult of personality, – think Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin or David Ben-Gurion – I never...
Dieudonne M’bala M’bala: Hate Speech Vs Freedom of Speech
French comedian – so called – Dieudonne M’bala M’bala has made headlines recently for his Jew hatred. Yes I said Jew hatred and not anti-Semitism. Let’s just call a spade a spade...
Baruch Dayan Ha’emet: One Fan’s Ode to Arik Einstein of Blessed Memory, 1939-2013
You and I will change the world. You and I, and so everyone will come. Say it first, Before me, It doesn’t matter. You and I will change the world. Maybe these words lose something in...
Bethlehem: A Movie Review
Bethlehem: 2013, 99 minutes long, in Hebrew and Arabic. I resisted seeing this movie at first. I mistakenly believed that it was a polemic against how Israel’s security forces operate with...