Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity
By Nathaniel Popper
More than 50 years after the death of Franz Molnar, who fled Hungary to escape the Nazis, a new chapter in the celebrated writer’s story is playing out; it involves Swiss bank accounts, a priest and a fraud allegation.Read More
Gilad Shalit’s Plight, Israel’s Dilemma
By Haim Watzman
It has been three years since Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas at a Gaza border crossing. In this op-ed, Haim Watzman looks at how heavy a price Israel should be prepared to pay in order to bring him home.Read More
From Israeli Orchestra to Pygmy Choir
By Benjamin Ivry
The stranger-than-fiction story of how Simha Arom, who once played in the Kol Israel Orchestra, became a world expert on the music of the Pygmies of Central Africa is detailed in Arom’s just-published memoir.Read More
Forget the Game... How’s the Grub?
By Jeff Weinstein
Food writer Jeff Weinstein samples the kosher offerings at New York’s two new baseball stadiums. It’s Mets vs. Yankees in the battle for the best knishes and kosher hot dogs. Who wins?Read More
First, Do No Harm
Yoram Blachar is president of the Israel Medical Association, a pediatric nephrologist with a quiet manner who practices at the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. In 2007, he beat out two other candidates to become president of the World Medical Association, an umbrella organization representing 9 million physicians in 84 countries with a mandate to define and promote doctors’ ethical and behavioral codes. Given the hostility to Israeli academics and other professionals in some quarters, Blachar’s election was greeted with joy and pride by many Jewish physicians worldwide. “His election is a great happiness after all battles against the threat of boycott,” Hava Bugajer of Austria wrote to the IMA. Alas, the threat isn’t over.Read More
