I sent Boychik off to his summer program in Israel with an extra $100 in his pocket and instructions to bring me back as much Ahava hand cream as that will buy. Ahava is my favorite — smells nice, absorbs quickly and does what it’s supposed to — but it’s too pricey here in the…
As we saw with the Batsheva Dance Company in 2009 and the Jerusalem Quartet in March, when it comes to Israel, even the most straightforward arts organizations have the potential to become the subjects of political controversy. The most recent flare-up centered around Canadian author Margaret Atwood, who accepted the Dan David Prize for literature…
Every now and then, somebody you thought you knew does or says something so completely out of character that it catches you off-guard and forces you to look at things in new and surprising ways. Take, for example, the recent statement by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, calling on “international academic and labor…
Pro-Palestinian activists in British trade unions have been busy for the past several months promoting anti-Israel boycotts. This week Israel’s allies responded in force: with not one but two full-page ads in The New York Times. The first ad, published Sunday and organized by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, blasted boycott bids from British…
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