By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I keep seeing this theory: “[The US] pressures another democracy [Israel] to continue to curtail religious freedom for one group, goes beyond hypocrisy. This is not the […]
The “white privilege” debate keeps popping up. The latest story is a Jon Stewart debate with Bill O’ Reilly. The crux was that Stewart wanted Bill to “admit” his privilege. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN in The Jerusalem Post At the military cemetery in Beit Jann is a monument that rises out of a concrete hole in the ground. It has […]
Dear ATM zombies, Yes I am talking to you. The people who stand motionless and stare at ATMs like you never saw one before; the people who make it seem […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN This is fitting to re-publish because memorial day for the Great War is tomorrow On October 8, 1917, William H. Hart wrote home to his parents. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Someone recently accused me of paternalism and of being in need of an education in journalism. Introspection is good; writing is better. Something else happened recently: […]
By A. Friend Yitzhak Rabin was a warrior, a statesman, a diplomat, a hero, a pioneer, a kibbutznik, a sabra, a Zionist, a peacemaker and in the end, a martyr. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In The Jerusalem Post Magazine November 1, 2014 There’s lots o’ songs the puncher sang in roundin’ up his herds; The music wasn’t very grand, an’ […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN and LAURA KELLY Published, October 3, 2013 In The Jerusalem Post’s In Jerusalem Bright-faced youngsters touting Nir Barkat or Moshe Lion election paraphernalia can be seen in […]
Book review By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Assuring the security of Israel and the Jewish People as a whole is an existential imperative for Israeli statecraft, at whatever cost to Israel […]
