Why Benny Gantz Chose This Moment to Reach Out to the Arab Parties
For the first time, these politicians may be serious about politics.
March 18, 2020
One-and-a-Half-Cheers for an Amazon Series about Nazi Hunters
Sometimes revenge is the best revenge.
Set in 1977, the television series Hunters depicts a Holocaust survivor (played by Al Pacino) who leads a gang of vigilantes in their quest to stop a plot by former Nazi officials to establish a Fourth Reich in the U.S. Hunters has already attracted much criticism for its saturation with comic-book and B-movie clichés, its myriad inaccuracies, and Pacino’s scenery-chewing. To A.E. Smith, “seeing post-Holocaust family trauma reduced to a series of superhero tropes, listening to bad Yiddish accents and mangled Jewish phrases, . . . and watching a seemingly endless parade of leering Nazis straight from central casting,” can be cringe-inducing. And there are more substantive problems as well:
March 18, 2020
Among the Jewish Organizations Devoted to Shielding Anti-Semites from Criticism
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice think hating Jews is excusable for those who aren’t white.
Israel’s Culture and Demography Make It Less Vulnerable to Epidemics—and to Terrorism—than Europe
A Western country that can rally society for a common purpose while maintaining dynamism, openness, and a positive natural-growth rate.
The Founder of Esperanto and the Dangerous Allure of Jewish Universalism
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof.
One-and-a-Half-Cheers for an Amazon Series about Nazi Hunters
Sometimes revenge is the best revenge.