Nothing better illustrates Thomas Mann’s famous statement that “everything is politics” than the response of opposing ideological camps to their government’s handling of …
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By Ruthie Blum
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7/9/20
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A petition demanding that accounting professor Gordon Klein be fired from his position at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for nearly four decades, has …
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By Ruthie Blum
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6/17/20
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As part of an evening news segment on Dec. 2, Israel’s Channel 12 examined the panic among British Jews over the prospect that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn could become the next prime …
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By Ruthie Blum
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12/4/19
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While the world oohed and aahed with the news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was returning his coalition-building mandate to President Reuven Rivlin — who, in turn, would …
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By Ruthie Blum
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10/24/19
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Approached by reporters on the tarmac of a California airport last Wednesday as the tally from the Sept. 17 Knesset elections was still being calculated, President Donald Trump measured his …
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By Ruthie Blum
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9/26/19
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In the midst of countrywide fury over two deadly serious issues — the killing of an Ethiopian Israeli teenager by a police officer in Haifa, and the horrifying abuse …
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By Ruthie Blum
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7/18/19
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