Are Any Lessons to Be Learned from the Israeli Elections?
Lessons for both the right and the left.
March 19, 2015
A French Graphic Novelist Investigates Judaism and the Diaspora
In best-selling comic books like The Rabbi's Cat and Klezmer.
Joann Sfar, a French Jew, has created a number of best-selling comic books, many of which—such as Klezmer and The Rabbi’s Cat—focus on Jewish themes and characters. Sfar has written that he loves Israel; he also believes French intellectuals are beset by a “neurosis about Israel and Palestine.” Yet his fiction bespeaks both an antipathy toward Zionism and a deep ambivalence about the Diaspora, as Michael Weingrad writes:
March 19, 2015
Israeli Sanctions against Hamas Are Not Collective Punishment
One of many false accusations.
A French Graphic Novelist Investigates Judaism and the Diaspora
In best-selling comic books like The Rabbi's Cat and Klezmer.
How Jews Helped Make MIT an Economics Powerhouse
It was willing to hire Jews in the years after World War II.
No, Netanyahu Did Not Win Because of Racism
His election-day remarks may have been ill-advised, but they didn't change anything.