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 […]
Democracy: the Noose and the Coffin
After today’s horrific events, I was reminded of some of the darker days in the history of democracies destroyed. Notably, the Reichstag fire and the days leading to the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Seeing that noose and scaffold in view of the U.S. Capitol, and hearing of gun shots fired inside the halls of […]
A Love Affair: The Zionist and the Nazi
Many years ago, I was researching the history of political assassinations within the Zionist movement for an essay which the London Review of Books commissioned (and then refused to publish). One of the intriguing murders was that of Chaim Arlosoroff in Tel Aviv in 1933. But it wasn’t just the circumstances of his killing and […]
Israeli Prime Minister’s Son Claims Israeli Murder Victim Raped, Decapitated by Palestinian
חסכנות גנטית: גם מפר איסור פרסום, גם מפיץ פייק ניוז, גם מכאיב למשפחה וגם מנסה לעשות הון פוליטי על הדם. הכל בעלות של ציוץ אחד! pic.twitter.com/XzxNM62gPS — Ben Caspit בן כספית (@BenCaspit) February 9, 2019 UPDATE: Aftet this post was published, Haaretz reported the the victim’s body was discovered naked and she had been sexually […]
