Shabbat shalom! This week on The Jew News Review, we take a break from doomscrolling anti-Israel op-eds and reanimated Nazi rhetoric on Instagram to honor a real milestone: the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the movie that made Americans terrified of swimming and turned a 27-year-old Jewish kid from Cincinnati into the king of Hollywood. Yes, JNR readers, Jaws isContinue reading “The Jew News Review – August 2, 2025 – “The Jewish roots of Jaws, or, “Oy, we need a bigger boat!””
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The Jew News Review – Special Edition – July 28, 2025 – ““Independence Day for Terror: France’s Gift to Hamas”
France has given the world so much to admire. The Enlightenment. Impressionism. The croissant. Existentialism, cinema, Sartre. And diplomacy itself, la diplomatie, not just in practice but in vocabulary. From détente to rapprochement, from chargé d’affairesto coup d’état, France has authored the lexicon of conflict resolution and international civility. It’s no accident that diplomats once trained in French and conducted negotiationsContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – July 28, 2025 – ““Independence Day for Terror: France’s Gift to Hamas””
The Jew News Review – July 26, 2025 – “Two state solution: A hope, or a mirage?”
Shabbat shalom! In the aftermath of October 7, the world shifted—and yet, some cling to expired solutions. Chief among them is the so‑called “two‑state solution,” a diplomatic zombie at best, a strategic liability at worst. Once heralded as Israel’s only hope for peace, today it is not just obsolete but dangerous: counter‑productive, out of stepContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 26, 2025 – “Two state solution: A hope, or a mirage?””
The Jew News Review – July 18, 2025 – “Diaspora Jews: “It’s not that easy being green””
Shabbat shalom! While the orange man continues his efforts to cancel Sesame Street, I thought it would be fitting to dedicate the theme of this post to one of my favorite Sesame characters, Kermit the Frog. Thanks for reading The Jew News Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. KermitContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 18, 2025 – “Diaspora Jews: “It’s not that easy being green”””
The Jew News Review – July 11, 2025 – “From Topol to Glastonbury: How we went from cheering to jeering Jews”
Shabbat shalom! Let’s travel in the wayback machine to London, circa 1967. It’s just before the curtain rises on Fiddler on the Roof at a London theater, when Chaim Topol—Israel’s iconic Tevye—steps out before the audience. War had broken out back home. The Jewish state, surrounded by Arab armies vowing its destruction, was under existential threat. TopolContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 11, 2025 – “From Topol to Glastonbury: How we went from cheering to jeering Jews””
The Jew News Review – July 4, 2025 – “A stench wafts over July 4”
Shabbat shalom! This is a short post this week since we are traveling with family. It’s the 4th of July, and we are heading to Staunton center to watch the annual parade of flag draped trucks, local politicians, and kitschy floats. But this year, celebrating our country feels different. While I still love this country,Continue reading “The Jew News Review – July 4, 2025 – “A stench wafts over July 4””
The Jew News Review – June 28, 2025 – “We are all Israelis now”
Shabbat shalom! In a scorching recent essay titled “The New Populism of the Judeocidal Left,” British conservative columnist Melanie Phillips warned that Jews in Britain are now less safe than Israelis—and that’s saying something, considering Israelis just survived a 12-day war with Iran, a war that killed dozens of Israelis, and injured thousands from a barrage of aContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 28, 2025 – “We are all Israelis now””
The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “Iran: The Beginning of the End?”
Shalom! Thanks for reading The Jew News Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I was thinking of headlining this post with “Iran’s Lesson Learned: Don’t Fuck with these Jews!”, but decided to go with a more socially acceptable version. And, we shouldn’t gloat about the tremendous successes Israel hasContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “Iran: The Beginning of the End?””
The Jew News Review – June 21, 2025 – “Narrative Lost”
Shabbat shalom! As a Journalism/English major in college, I was required to take a course on Major British Writers where I had my first exposure to John Milton and his epic poem, Paradise Lost, which is all about the biblical fall of man. “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a HeavenContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 21, 2025 – “Narrative Lost””
The Jew News Review – June 14, 2025 – “The wings of a butterfly”
Shabbat shalom. I watched a lot of CNN yesterday. To hear the details of Israel’s military prowess was at times inspiring, but seeing missiles eluding the iron dome and falling on Tel Aviv was just awful and hard to watch. Israel’s “preemptive” attack on Iran’s nuclear capabilities was a long time coming, but the outcomeContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 14, 2025 – “The wings of a butterfly””
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