Dan Cohen of Eleven Paris allegedly ordered the discontinuation of a Jewish employee’s trial period because Cohen couldn’t tell him to work on Shabbat.
Haaretz writer Vivian Eden just unearthed an amazing historical factoid: the Bataclan, the stately Paris theater that is now synonymous with bloodshed and horror, takes its name from an operetta written and composed by two 19th-century Jews. Born to a German cantor, composer Jacques Offenbach emigrated to Paris to study music. The libretto he famously […]
Here’s who you might not have expected to have an extensive audiotape collection: Osama Bin Laden. Here’s who you definitely wouldn’t expect to be found in it: an Algerian Jew. The BBC just reported on the findings of Williams College professor Flagg Williams’ forthcoming book, The Audacious Ascetic, on Bin Laden’s private music collection which yes, […]