Movie review: The Lost Daughter

 by Howard Adelman The Lost Mother is not the name of the movie. It is called The Lost Daughter. Maggie Gyllenhaal offers audiences one of the most outstanding films of last year with the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s 2006 novel. Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut is nuanced, incisive and uses the cinematic grammar of a top

Movie review: Don’t Look Up

 Review by Howard Adelman I first watched the film a week ago. I claimed to have walked out after watching one-third of the film. My wife claimed that I had only seen 20% and, on that basis, could not criticize the admiration and love my two youngest children had for

The recent Gaza war — back to basics

 ABOVE: Israel’s Iron Dome works to blowup incoming Hamas rockets in Tel Aviv. (May 11, 2021, IMAGE VIA SKYNEWS) by Howard Adelman Peter Beinart wrote two important pieces in Jewish Currents, one last summer that claimed, “The painful truth is that the project to which liberal Zionists like myself have devoted

Israeli-Palestinian Prognostications

 by Howard Adelman This paper is written in three parts. Each is simply a syntheses of conclusions and differences over the analysis of the conflict, surprisingly revealing a broad consensus In this three-part series, I originally intended to wrap up my collection of givens and trends with possible alternative choices or

Israeli-Palestinian relations. Geopolitical trends in the relationships of Israelis and Palestinians

 Above: The Israeli security fence separating Israel from the West Bank of Jordan - Judea and Samaria by Howard Adelman This paper is written in three parts. Each is simply a syntheses of conclusions and differences over the analysis of the conflict, surprisingly revealing a broad consensus Part II: Geopolitical Trends in

Israeli-Palestinian relations. Givens

 Above: January 27, 2012: A Palestinian youth waves a flag while confronting Israeli soldiers in a protest against the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank down of Al-Masara. (Photo: rrodrickbeiler, iStock) by Howard Adelman Currently, there is nothing going on in planning for a renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks – at

To Impeach or not to teach?

 By Howard Adelman One of the interesting items to note about the whole affair of Donald Trump and the storming of the Capitol is that impeachment was not really a question for almost all the legislators. Virtually all Democrats knew what they wanted to do. A small group of Republicans,