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Green Border review: An exhilarating and empathetic depiction of a humanitarian crisis
The A.V. Club· 2 days agoDuped by a fraudulent campaign orchestrated by Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko, migrants from...
Yorick Blumenfeld, author who envisaged a future for humanity based on co-operation – obituary
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoAs a student of Russian history and literature, Yorick was tutored by Richard Pipes, a Polish Jew...
In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing - Jewish Telegraphic...
JTA· 10 hours agoYIVO sought a home in New York for a museum dedicated to the vanished "homes" of Eastern Europe.
Read about the prominent Jewish leaders with strong ties to Oak Ridge, Knoxville
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoGuilford Glazer, the state of Israel, and the Oak Ridge Shopping Center An Eastern European Jew who...
Railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history
Sun-Sentinel· 3 days agoThere’s no doubt railways were key to the development of landlocked Zambia. “A tiny population...
Polish Compassion | J. Hoberman
New York Review of Books· 3 days agoEurope, in Agnieszka Holland’s rough-and-tumble Green Border, is a beacon of hope and a cauldron of hate. The dual perspective is implicit in the movie’s...
Gaza, the Quran and the Torah: Is the Middle East conflict now a religious war?
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“Both in Israel and Palestine, the main internal division is between those who are secular and those...
Counter-Terrorism: Iran Becomes The Usual Suspect
Strategy Page· 19 hours agoJanuary 22, 2021: Iran is again on the defensive because of its use of assassination, kidnapping and threats against foreign critics. A growing number of European nations ...
Steve Feren talks about his serendipitous journey as a glass art outlier
Wisconsin State Journal· 6 days agoAt the end of the drive sits a Quonset hut, originally built to house farm machines, that now serves...
Jordan Green, Triad City Beat
The Raw Story· 4 days agoWithin four months, Russia had annexed Crimea and was backing separatists in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. Ultranationalist protest groups — instrumental in the toppling ...