world war ii

To understand Hamas, reflect on the Japanese in World War II

Despite the all-too-expected deplorable behavior of the UN, it behooves the Biden administration and indeed the entire Western world that requires American leadership, to remember that April 1, 1945,

By YECHIEL M. LEITER
02/04/2024
 Anthony Hopkins plays Nicky Winston in 'One Life.'

Anthony Hopkins gives a fine performance in James Hawes’s One Life

One Life is a worthwhile movie, one that may lift your mood now, just a few weeks before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Robert F. Kennedy: 'Hamas to blame for Gaza war, any country would act like Israel'

Kennedy said that each previous ceasefire "has been used by Hamas to rearm, to rebuild and then launch another surprise attack. So what would be different this time?"

By REUTERS
20/03/2024

The real Jewish history of 'Rosie’ Rosenthal in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’

Though Judaism may not have been Rosenthal’s primary motivating factor, the concentration camp scene in the series finale — which Orloff said actually happened — lays bare that the weight of fighting

By JACOB GURVIS/JTA
15/03/2024

Illya Gefter presents ‘The Front,’ works that raise historical questions

The fundamental meaning of art, I believe, is in offering a vision of harmony on the one hand and coping with a tragic absence of harmony in human existence on the other.

By NERIA BARR
05/03/2024

Suspenseful cop show, a soothing soap, and 'Table for Eight'

Manayek is the kind of hard-hitting series with nail-biting suspense and perfectly cast actors that epitomizes the high-quality TV that has made Israel a television powerhouse around the world.

'Cold Crematorium': An unusual account of the Holocaust

It’s an unusual Holocaust book because it was written soon after the war by an adult journalist and focuses not on death camps but on the slave-labor camps in which he toiled.

By NEAL GENDLER
23/02/2024

A shy young woman fights the Nazis in ‘From Hilde, With Love’

The movie avoids many of the cliches associated with fictional depictions of resistance fighters.

What does 'total victory' look like for Netanyahu in the war with Hamas?

Total victory for Netanyahu implies both the complete elimination of Hamas as a fighting force and the liberation of all the hostages held by the terror organization.

Film encapsulates how humans can become monsters

Israeli 'Haktovet al Hakir' commemorates the Babyn Yar massacre

By NERIA BARR
25/01/2024
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