Israel Risks Losing Its Deterrence over Hizballah
The Iran-backed group can boast of several recent accomplishments.
May 3, 2023
Netflix Mixes a Riveting Tale of Holocaust Rescue with Bromides of Identity Politics
Isn’t Varian Fry’s heroism more interesting than his homosexuality?
In its seven-part series Transatlantic, Netflix dramatizes the story of Varian Fry, an American patrician who spent the years from 1940 to 1942 trying to get artists and intellectuals—most but not all Jewish—out of Europe before they fell into the hands of the Nazis. Despite the efforts of the U.S. State Department to thwart his activities, Fry and his collaborators rescued roughly 2,000 people, among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, and Arthur Koestler. Phyllis Chesler finds the series riveting, and a cinematic treatment of the subject matter “long overdue.” She nonetheless takes the show to task for molding the story to faddish ideas:
May 3, 2023
At Harvard, an Education in Anti-Semitism
One prejudice is considered acceptable on campus.
The End of Erdogan Might Not Be Good News for Jerusalem
Those who replace him might feel a need to display their anti-Israel credentials.
Netflix Mixes a Riveting Tale of Holocaust Rescue with Bromides of Identity Politics
Isn’t Varian Fry’s heroism more interesting than his homosexuality?
One of Britain’s Oldest Printed Jewish Books, and Its Author
“A noble passage of my countryman, Milton.”