Mira Sucharov
By Mira Sucharov
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Opinion How Not To Respond to the Ottawa Shootings
Shootings in Canadian Parliament captured on film / YouTube As I write this while at home in central Ottawa, my husband is in lockdown at work and my kids are being kept indoors all day in their secured school. Ottawa residents joined by onlookers the world over are still trying to piece together today’s events,…
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Opinion Why We Censor ‘Klinghoffer’ at Our Peril
Getty Images (Haaretz) — As the Metropolitan Opera prepares to launch its production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” John Adams and Alice Goodman’s 1991 operatic account of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship and the murder of a Jewish, wheelchair-bound passenger by Palestinian militants, the media has been abuzz. Protestors have gathered outside…
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Film & TV Ruby Rivlin Is This Palestinian Boy’s New Best Friend
When it comes to Israeli-Palestinian relations, there’s much to be cynical about lately. The 50-day long carnage resulting from Operation Protective Edge this summer, the frozen peace process, the dueling speeches by Netanyahu and Abbas at the U.N. — and then there’s the festering issue of Israel’s minorities. This week, Israel’s new president has come…
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Opinion What Islamic Art Museum Can Learn From Jews
Courtesy of the Aga Khan Museum North America just got its first museum devoted to Islamic art, a $300 million project in Toronto made possible by the Aga Khan. The “over one thousand artefacts and artworks” spanning “over one thousand years of history” are meant to capture “the artistic accomplishments of Muslim civilisations from the…
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The Schmooze Art Spiegelman Breaks His Silence on Israel
Photo: Nadja Spiegelman Art Spiegelman — celebrated comics book artist, illustrator and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus” — has broken his silence on the subject of Israel. At least that’s how he put it to his Facebook followers last week when he shared a collage he designed for a recent issue of the magazine…
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Opinion Is It ‘Undignified’ To Negotiate With Hamas?
Khaled Meshal, head of the political wing of Hamas / Getty Images “Apart from fringe elements such as the Jewish Voice for Peace, which abandoned the last shred of its dignity when its rabbinic co-chair presented Hamas as a force for reason, American Jews of all persuasions back Israel’s position.” So says Rabbi Eric Yoffie,…
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The Schmooze When the Occupied Film the Occupiers
At its best, art is about connection. A new Israeli-Palestinian documentary short film exploits the natural three-way relationship between artist, audience and subject to reveal an unexpected source of real-life intimacy: that between occupier and occupied. Produced by B’Tselem and directed by Ehab Tarabieh, Yoav Gross, and the al-Haddad family, “Smile, and the World Will…
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The Schmooze Filming the One-State Solution
With the two-state solution increasingly invoked as either tragically out of reach or altogether unjust, a new film seeks to examine another possibility for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the one-state solution. More in the tradition of didactic documentary films than storytelling ones, Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon’s “A People Without a Land,” which recently premiered at the Manhattan Film…
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