Serial killer complains about economic hardship facing ‘olim’
Serial killer complains about economic hardship facing olim By SPOOF, SATIRE and MOCKING A serial killer who immigrated to Israel as an “oleh hadash” has granted an interview to an […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Arrest Haredim and others who cause trouble on airplanes
Arrest Haredim and others who cause trouble on planes SETH J. FRANTZMAN The first man came to demand water. With a large beard and black coat he received his water […]
Galicia Rising: A tour of Lviv and the region
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN From Kiev to Lviv: First impressions The sun sets slowly in April, the trees have still not got their leaves back, and Kiev’s Borispol airport doesn’t […]
NYT still shielding Obama by claiming “racism”
In a recent editorial the New York Times claimed that if we critique Obama “race plays a role.” In the opposite, race has played a role in keeping this President […]
The strategy behind finding the best seat on a plane
So the New York Times has finally written up the story about how Haredi (ultra-Orthodox Jewish men) are accused of causing trouble on airplanes by not wanting to sit next […]
How Israel’s poor minority was turned into “white racists” by Israel’s “left” in order to excuse it’s own racism
How Israel’s poor minority was turned into “white racists” by Israel’s “left” in order to excuse it’s own racism By SETH J. FRANTZMAN After the recent Israeli elections the country’s […]
The reformer: Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally appeared in April 1 The Jerusalem Post Magazine Ayaan Hirsi Ali remembers the first time she was invited to a friend’s house for Passover several […]
Book review: Historiography of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine on APril 8 IN THE early 1990s when Yugoslavia began to disintegrate and a brutal war broke out between Serbs and Bosnians, the […]
Time for international cooperation on how to kill perpetrators of mass terror attacks
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For the second time in several years Al-Shabab terrorists have taken over a civilian structure and are purportedly involved in a massacre of non-Muslim university students. […]
Co-opting Judaism for social causes: Paternalism, condescending or justice?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For more than a hundred years or so, ever since large numbers of Jews became involved in various modern movements, there has been a tendency to […]
