J.B. Spins

The State of Israel was built by women.  Men too, but the pre-1949 kibbutz scene was truly an early feminist incubator.  However, the ide...

Jimmy Carter made the call to pressure out the Shah and give the Ayatollah a chance running things in Iran.  Needless to say, it did not ...

Soviet Jewry faced systematic discrimination and religious persecution.  Yet, policies of segregation inadvertently facilitated an organi...

Wilhelm Reich was a Freudian psychoanalyst who claimed to have discovered a naturally occurring chi-like energy called Orgone that could ...

Tragically, Amy Winehouse passed away only two and a half short years ago.  Could she already be due for a critical reassessment? A case ...

It is easy to see why banishment to Siberia was a favorite method of punishment under the old Communist regime. It still seems like cold,...

You might not expect Fats Waller to provide the theme song for the docu-memoir of Marcel Ophüls, the director of The Sorrow and the Pity ...

As a matter of policy, the Soviets automatically denied all requests from the so-called “Refuseniks” to immigrate to Israel, often spurio...