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Forget the uncorroborated Trump allegations: Israel’s police may have the goods on Benjamin Netanyahu. In the last weeks, the Israeli prime minister has been questioned multiple times by law enforcement over several possible corruption scandals. One of these investigations concerns expensive gifts he received from wealthy businessmen and supporters, which, though appearing unseemly, is nothing new for Netanyahu and unlikely to have much impact. The other, more serious investigation, however, concerns... Читать дальше...

John Carpenter’s films mean a lot of things to a lot of people. The director of such beloved cult items as “Halloween,” “Vampires,” and “Escape from New York” crafts movies that succeed in being addictively entertaining, while also being uncategorizable and weird—but not abrasively or gratuitously weird like the works of lesser horror and science fiction directors over-eager to shock or prove their technical virtuosity. Carpenter’s films are deceptively grounded in things we can recognize: the... Читать дальше...

The Jewish Book Council announced its 66th annual selections for the National Jewish Book Awards winners and finalists today. Among them is Daniel Gordis, whose book Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn took home top honors for Book of the Year. In October, Gordis wrote about his approach to and motivation for writing the book, pondering if it was “possible to write a book about Israel where conflict is not the fulcrum of the Jewish state’s history?” (Gordis also wrote eloquently last year about the death of Shimon Peres... Читать дальше...

Hostility to Russia is the oldest continuous foreign-policy tradition in the United States, and that is because, apart from the ordinary conflicts of interest that might be expected to arise between two very large nations, a philosophical conflict has pitted America against the Russians, and has done so throughout the centuries, with the fate of the world at stake. Tocqueville identified the phenomenon on the last page of Democracy in America, Vol. I, from 1835. America, he explains, conquers... Читать дальше...

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Is it possible the unlikely lovefest between far-left Russophile Julian Assange and the Trump team may go deeper—and may have been going on for longer—than we think? Last week, Trump agreed with Assange on the “dishonesty” of the American media, and Sarah Palin first-named Assange and apologized for 2010 statements that he has “blood on his hands.” But the Assange camp and the Trump camp have not just a thread, but a tapestry connecting them.

On Jan. 12, a Thursday, the Jewish community of Palermo, Sicily, will become owners of part of a church and monastery complex—a gift from the Roman Catholic Church—that will soon house its synagogue and heritage center. The complex, itself located atop the ruins of a medieval synagogue (the Great Synagogue of Palermo), will undergo renovations to create these Jewish spaces, and the Catholic Church will be financing the project. The donation creates what is essentially the first synagogue in Palermo... Читать дальше...

As you’ve probably heard, neo-Nazi web site editor Andrew Anglin has called for a march against the Jewish population of Whitefish, Montana, on Jan. 16, MLK Day. In the face of significant public outcry and his own inability to file for basic permits, Anglin is now hedging on whether the march will even take place this month. Meanwhile, others are lining up in solidarity with the Jews of Whitefish.