A mourning etiquette for social media
A mourning etiquette for social media? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 07/02/2013 21:46 A friend of a friend on Facebook has posted: “Travis Carter along with 18 other firefighters were killed yesterday […]
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Book Review: Armenian Golgotha By Grigoris Balakian
Armenian Golgotha By Grigoris Balakian Knopf, 509 pp., $23.10 By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On April 24 Armenians and others around the world once again remembered the Armenian genocide. It has […]
Socialism and nepotism: The awful truth
Socialism and nepotism By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 02/19/2013 21:54 Six months ago the The New York Times came under a sophisticated cyber attack that lasted for months. Passwords of numerous Times employees were stolen and […]
The return of the Khazar myth
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post A recent study (‘The missing link of Jewish European Ancestry’) published online by the Oxford journal Genome Biology and Evolution concluded that […]
Israel’s cult of post-political responsibility
Originally in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a new film about the directors of Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, called The Gatekeepers, Ya’akov Peri claims […]
‘Homeland,’ the Jews and Columbia University
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 10/29/2012 Originally a column in The Jerusalem Post In 1925 Adolph Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that Jews must always be judged first by their ethnoreligious […]
Incitement U: Confronting hate at Israel’s academy
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In The Jerusalem Post It is widely known that the topic of of Israel is contentious on campuses throughout the world. Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael […]
Fragments from a forgotten Israel-Ethiopian-Jewish past
By KASAEY DAMOZA FRANTZMAN In The Jerusalem Post 24 April, 2012 A year and a half after Israel’s declaration of independence, Dr. Jacob Weinstein, a Jewish Agency official and immigration […]
Sand cat on the prowl: IDF’s ‘caracal’ SUV
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Published 10/21/2011 “Originally it had a DVD in it; we had to remove that feature.” Aaron Keinreich, an officer in the Border Police in charge of […]
A communal state of denial
Ramle (Photo: WikiCommons) By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, Published in The Jerusalem Post On January 20, sometime after nightfall a pretty, dark-haired, 19-year-old woman arrived at the Central Bus Station in […]
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