Arturo Lopez-Levy
By Arturo Lopez-Levy
-
News Fidel Castro on Israel and the Jews? It’s Complicated.
What did Fidel Castro stand for when it comes to Israel and the Jews? That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. With the Cuban’s leader’s death November 25, at age 90, his long and controversial career is sure to be reviewed minutely on every issue in the days leading up to his funeral, December 4….
-
Opinion Embargo Hampers Gross Freedom Talks
To understand the reason that Alan Gross, an American citizen, has been languishing in a Cuban jail for the past two years, it is instructive to listen to an exchange that took place recently at a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.) demanded that Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state…
-
Opinion In Cuba, a Hostage to International Brinkmanship
Alan Gross, an American Jew and USAID contractor, has sat in a Cuban prison for nearly nine months. Jews, whose history is bound together by stories of exile and return, captivity and freedom, long for his release. Cubans, who have been weary bystanders for decades in the games of brinkmanship between their government and the…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward After Minneapolis shooting, local Jewish service channels a city’s grief and resolve
- 2
Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
- 3
News Why Josh Shapiro’s memoir could complicate a presidential run
- 4
Antisemitism Decoded How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Mamdani visits Holocaust survivor at her apartment on Holocaust Remembrance Day
-
Opinion What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE
-
Opinion Minnesota, Rabbi Tarfon and the language of horror
-
Fast Forward Jessica Tisch affixes a mezuzah to her NYPD office on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
