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Forward Why 'Waiting for Godot' is an apt metaphor for Israeli and Palestinian history 17 Apr 2024
"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett serves as a poignant metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian history due to its theme of waiting without resolution. The p...
17 Apr 2024
Forward Why 'tragedy' is not the right word to describe the deadly strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy 7 Apr 2024
The article discusses the Israeli drone strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza and questions the use of the term "tragedy" to describe the event, s...
7 Apr 2024
Forward A comedy about a vanishing Jewish community doesn't seem so funny right now 22 Feb 2024
The French film "Le Dernier des Juifs" (The Last of the Jews), renamed "A Nice Jewish Boy," captures a comedic yet poignant moment in French Jewish history, ...
22 Feb 2024
Forward A Jewish voice demanding liberty, equality and fraternity — in France and in Texas — has been silenced 11 Feb 2024
Robert Badinter, a prominent French figure known for his advocacy against the death penalty and his commitment to the values of liberty, equality, and frater...
11 Feb 2024
Forward 'Never has peace seemed so necessary and impossible' — Eva Illouz on the horrors of Oct. 7 and its aftermath 2 Feb 2024
Eva Illouz, a renowned sociologist, discusses the profound impact of the Hamas massacre in Israel and the subsequent military response. Illouz shares her ini...
2 Feb 2024
Forward In her search for truth, Hannah Arendt would have recognized the lies of Netanyahu, Putin and Trump 11 Jan 2024
Hannah Arendt's book "Between Past and Future" emphasized the importance of thinking in an age where the past provides little guidance and the future offers ...
11 Jan 2024
Forward Is an intifada in France inevitable? Peut-être 13 Dec 2023
The recent increase in antisemitic acts in France, in response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, has sparked concerns about the potential for an inti...
13 Dec 2023
Forward To understand the blindness of our Supreme Court, look to the land of Alfred Dreyfus 3 Jul 2023
Robert Zaretsky explores the parallels between France and the United States, focusing on the recent Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action and the ...
3 Jul 2023
Forward In Paris, 80 years after a shocking atrocity, forgetting is another form of extermination 15 Jul 2022
Commemorating 80 years since the Vel d'Hiv roundup, the article reflects on the 1942 mass arrest of Jews in Paris, a coordinated effort by French police unde...
15 Jul 2022
Jewish Review of Books On Literary Brilliance and Moral Rot   16 Jun 2018
The French publishing house Gallimard's decision to republish three anti-Semitic pamphlets by the controversial author Louis-Ferdinand Céline, known for his ...
16 Jun 2018