The Love TrilogyDir Yaron Shani, Israel “Israeli director Yaron Shani, whose 2009 film Ajami (co-directed with Scandar Copti) was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Feature Film category, is back with three films…
It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room. Lizzie the elephant that is. The story of this helpful giant, who carted steel around Sheffield for use in World War I when all the horses were at war, is just one of many in Tales of Amazing Animal Heroes: Real Life Stories of Animal Bravery…
The first Israeli spacecraft reached the moon on 11 April 2019, shortly after the publication of the final results of the Israeli elections. The spacecraft was launched from Israel in February, in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin…
In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May, half a dozen leaders of Jewish groups in Brussels, including myself, assembled in a closed-door meeting to debate the vote. “We need to oppose the far right”, a student…
The final episode of the first season of the Ukrainian hit TV series, Servant of the People (Sluga Narodu), finds president Vasilii Holoborodko – a history-teacher-turned-president – at a live talk show. He is about to reveal his prime minister’s corrupt behaviour. Holoborodko, who frequently…
Israel's not in Europe, why is Eurovision being held there? Good point. Since its founding in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest has invited members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) – not Europe…
In the spring of 1945, George Orwell wrote an introduction to Animal Farm, his allegory of the way cults of personality can lead to dictatorship. Yet when Secker and Warburg published it in mid-August of that year, Orwell’s…