I recently participated in an online panel that accompanied the screening of the film documentary, Yiddish: the Mama Loshn, for the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. I was not invited to the panel as a Yiddishist or professor of Yiddish or Jewish history (the three other panel members were). Instead, director Pierre Sauvage asked me to […]
Le Chambon: It Takes a Village…to Save Jews
Tonight, a small detour from my usual subjects. When I was a UCLA graduate student in 1978, I studied Yiddish with Prof. Janet Hadda. During that year, she asked the class if they would meet with a filmmaker who was planning a film on Yiddish in America. The director was Pierre Sauvage, a Franco-American documentary […]
Walter Soriano, ‘Bibi’s Bully’ and Muscle for Russian Oligarch Suspected of Throwing 2016 Election
DONATE: This is your last chance this year to make a gift supporting the reporting and research of Tikun Olam. The court case I fought and won portrayed below cost $8,000 in legal fees. At the time of my victory, I appealed to readers who helped raise $1,000. Soriano was compelled by the court to […]
Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Secretly Buys Media Coverage
Many of us know that Israel is a corrupt society and that the corruption stems in large part from the gross, illegal, and interminable seven-decade oppression of the Palestinian minority both inside and outside Israel. There are of course many complicated reasons and analyses worth exploring regarding this subject (we’ll focus on one aspect in […]
