February 2, 2025

The Jews of Siargao Island

  By David Haldane February 2, 2025     It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man […]
January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
December 23, 2024

The Pope’s Anti-Semitism

 By David Haldane Dec. 23, 2024     The image was surreal. There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of […]
December 2, 2024

Confession: Hamas Made Me Vote for Trump

  By David Haldane Dec. 2, 2024     I’m ready to confess something that most regular readers of this column have probably already guessed. I […]
October 20, 2024

Ilan Fluss: Israel’s Embattled Ambassador

By David Haldane October 20, 2024     The security precautions were impressive. The invitations, issued in advance after thorough screenings, were non-transferable. Invitees were given […]
September 9, 2024

Zone of Interest

By David Haldane Sept. 9, 2024     I hated the speech. Accepting an Oscar for his movie, “The Zone of Interest,” earlier this year, English […]
May 27, 2024

Satan Versus the Jews?

  By David Haldane May 27, 2024     I’ve never been a Greta Thunberg fan. Back in 2019, when the then-teenage Swedish activist achieved overnight […]
May 13, 2024

DeJa Vu: I was an Outside Agitator at Columbia in 1971

  By David Haldane May 13, 2024     The only thing unusual about the call was that it came so early. “Good morning, comrade,” said […]
May 10, 2024

The Homeland I’ve Never Seen

By David Haldane May 9, 2024     My late Uncle Joe had a saying he liked to use. “Scratch a goy,” he’d say, “you got […]
April 29, 2024

Thai New Year: A Very Wet Welcome

By David Haldane April 29, 2024     The squirting started early. I can’t say we hadn’t been warned. “Don’t be surprised if you get squirted […]
December 25, 2023

A Jewish Christmas in the Philippines

 By David Haldane Dec. 25, 2023     For me it’s always the same. Gangs of Christmas carolers gather on the patio to sing until we […]
December 19, 2023

Socorro Bayanihan: Commune or Cult?

  By David Haldane Dec. 18, 2023     We were a mile off the coast of a remote Philippine Island when I realized the boat […]