If there was a famine, a complete crisis where people were actually starving to death, then why did all these people jumping around on the tops of cars, chanting in the streets, waving guns and Hamas flags for the cameras…why did everyone look so well fed? How could they have that muc...
The Menzels weren’t the only Zionists from their part of the world to escape just in the nick of time. Among the other refugees who came to Palestine the very same year was Martin Buber, who had been Rudolphina’s Zionist mentor, as Kahn observes—though not quite in the way she sug...
Even when these artists did not remember all the lyrics, their groove and feel for the material was spot on, as if they were born on the Mississippi. Mizrahi and other laborers working in the industrial areas of Hamasger Street in Tel Aviv and in Ramla would return at nigh...
I did really enjoy it and found my time there very relaxing. The dry saunas, which we wore assigned uniforms/shorts and t-shirts in, were interesting and soothing experiences. I also liked being able to take it easy and chat with my friend and her friend, who had been there many times...
A backlash is surely coming, although right now there is little evidence of an organized movement against the Jews here. It will take an economic crisis or cataclysm for this to happen and for people to finally wake up. What if every single Gentile protestor in Occupy Wall St. and the...
The younger Oppermann generation is represented by Martin’s idealistic teenage son; Edgar’s daughter, who’s an increasingly passionate exponent of the Zionist movement; and Heinrich, the Oppermann brothers’ cautious and pragmatic nephew. One of the things I particularly loved about the novel is...
Never mind that the Federal Circuit didn’t even support its own evidence precedents for the fabricated claim. Never mind that all the judges in the case held volumes of Facebook financial interests, including Chief Justice John Roberts, yet did not recuse themselves. ...