As we wove through the backroads of an 18th-century Italian estate in our rented Volvo, I questioned myself once more: What exactly was I doing there? It was the summer of 2004, my first time in Europe. And in truth, the Baroque home commissioned by one of the Doges of Venice and the site of…
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a New York hospital on Tuesday after a fall at his home and was expected to be released later in the day, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center said in a statement. A hospital spokeswoman declined to give more details. Kissinger, 89, has remained a leading voice…
At Bernard Lewis’s neocon gala, the talk was of war, peace, democracy and Muslims. But in a room full of onetime advocates of the second Iraq War, no one much wanted to talk about a possible military strike on Iran. Paul Wolfowitz, the Bush administration Pentagon official who pushed hard for an invasion of Iraq…
The man once known as the intellectual godfather of the Iraq war opposes a military strike on Iran. Bernard Lewis, 96, the British-born expert on the Middle East who enjoyed exceptionally close ties to the Bush administration, told the Forward at a gala dinner held in his honor last night that he didn’t support military…
It seems Henry Kissinger had little patience for Jews who were fighting for the rights of their brethren in the Soviet Union or lobbying for Israel. Britain’s Daily Mail reports that newly-released State Department documents indicate that in 1972, when he was National Security Advisor in the Nixon administration, Kissinger called such Jews “bastards.” At…
Alex Ross and Norman Lebrecht examine digitized music manuscripts from the Morgan Library. A couple of Israelis have recorded a song entirely using iPhone apps — and it’s a hit. A forthcoming biography of J.D. Salinger and Henry Kissinger’s “On China” are among The Daily Beast’s most anticipated books of 2011. Is Frank Gehry’s design…
An exhibit at the Israel Museum celebrates German Jewish painter Jakob Steinhardt. The Arty Semite contributor Menachem Wecker looks at a 1979 caricature of Henry Kissinger that was cut from the New York Times. Which Yiddish books would you like to see translated? The Palestinian National Orchestra has its debut. Eilat celebrates the 10th annual…
In a memoir of his late parents Mr. and Mrs. William F. Buckley, “Losing Mum and Pup,” newly out in paperback from Twelve Publishers, Christopher Buckley quotes from the funeral oration given by Henry Kissinger at his father’s 2008 service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In it, Kissinger states that the elder Buckley “wrote as Mozart…
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