As far as biblical heroines go, Esther was relatively low-maintenance and docile. She did not take up arms or slay any enemies. For much of her...
Refugee, prisoner, wine merchant, spy: Peter Sichel was many things in his long, colorful life, but he was probably most often identified as the man who...
“To enter into high society,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote, “a man must either have blood, a million or a genius.” As soon as he was able to...
THE PROSECUTOR: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice, by Jack Fairweather On a gray wintry day in December 1970, Willy Brandt, the first postwar...
The plight of the writers can be read in the exclamation points. “Extremely urgent case!!!” wrote Blima Bierzonski, on Dec. 13, 1938 seeking entry for herself...
The point seems to be to surprise readers with criticisms of Israel from unexpected sources as a way of opening them up to alternate ways of...
Ye, the rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West, took back the apology he made in 2023 for his past antisemitic statements, declared that he...
In my reading of your career, around 2010, a real change happens. You started doing fewer of the big, broad comedies and instead made films like...
