Daily Archives: July 1, 2025
Hollywood outlier: American actor Elliott Gould focuses the camera on real life
It’s difficult to imagine a face like Elliott Gould’s becoming a matinee idol today. It is angular and brooding, with eyes that have carried a weight beyond their years and a voice that teetered...
The Perfect Dose by Jack Rubinstein
Passionately written science meets the human condition in this occasionally raunchy, at turns hilarious and ultimately illuminating novel. The Perfect Dose follows a run-of-the-mill Midwest physician as he throws himself into a headlong fight...
New Israeli gov’t body to combat Jewish extremist violence
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday announced the establishment of a multi-agency body dedicated to prosecuting and stopping incidents of Jewish extremist violence against the country's security forces.
"Those who commit acts of violence...
Brazil’s senate inaugurates ‘Israel Friendship Day’
The Federal Senate of Brazil last week passed a law that inaugurated an official day of friendship with Israel, in a rebuke of the government’s hostility toward the Jewish state under President Luiz Inácio Lula...
US Embassy in Jerusalem eases travel restrictions for gov’t employees
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday eased travel restrictions for government employees stationed in Israel following the June 23 truce that ended 12 days of fighting between the Jewish state and Iran.
A security...
Netanyahu: War against Iran watershed moment in Jewish history
The Israel Defense Forces' "Operation Rising Lion" against Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs will forever be "etched in the history of our people," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Monday.
"In Iran, a...
Columnist at Belgian news channel fired for defending Israel
On June 16, a debate took place on a program of the LN24 French-speaking channel, a day after a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the center of Brussels.
The panel of commentators included Alain Kupchik, director of the Institute...
Gaza: The Palestinian Authority Is Not the Answer
"Arab states have repeatedly asserted that they will not take part in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza absent Israeli acquiescence to the Palestinian Authority gaining a foothold in the Strip as part of a...
Israel, Iran and Nuclear War: Deciphering Science-based Scenarios
“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation.”
Jose Ortega y’Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958)
At...