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"Ordinary Life" During a Time of War
The Jewish Voice
Jun 24, 2025
My Malgorzata--Her Husband's Tribute in Full
Substack
Jun 24, 2025
Why I Watch Michael Kitchen in Foyle's War
New English Review
Jun 11, 2025
Keeping One's Head
New English Review
Jun 05, 2025
Erica Jong, My Darling Friend
The New English Review
May 08, 2025
Trouble Is My First Name
The New English Review
May 06, 2025
DEI Destroys the Beauty of a Great Opera
American Spectator
May 03, 2025
On Appreciation
Substack
Apr 25, 2025
An Extraordinary Musical Moment as Our World Burns Down
Substack
Apr 08, 2025
At the Opera
Mar 27, 2025
A Meditation on the Sea (Update)
Mar 25, 2025
How the West was won, and how it can be saved
JNS
Mar 17, 2025
Are More People Crazier Than Ever Before?
Substack
Mar 12, 2025
Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Selfish Lady at Carnegie Hall
New English Review
Mar 07, 2025
What Freud Said to Einstein and Why Books Are My Salvation
New English Review
Jan 27, 2025
Coincidences Are Rarely Coincidental
The Jewish Voice
Jan 16, 2025
Dear Abigail (Abby) McGrath:
Substack
Jan 13, 2025
To my Readers who Love Classical Music Phyllis Chesler
Substack
Dec 17, 2024
A Night Out With Handel's Messiah
New English Review
Dec 16, 2024
Maria Callas: The Opera
New English Review
Dec 12, 2024
Growing Older
Substack
Dec 04, 2024
Pimping For Your Presidential Candidate
Substack
Nov 04, 2024
The Infamous/Famous Literary Jew Haters
Substack
Oct 28, 2024
The Dying Does Not Seem to Stop
Substack
Oct 25, 2024
Insane anti-Israel Censorship
Substack
Oct 24, 2024
‘Pogrom(s)’ stands out in a flurry of Oct. 7 documentaries
JNS
Oct 01, 2024
The Goldman Trial
Israel National News
Sep 13, 2024
Hollywood Occupies the White House
X
Aug 23, 2024
Phil Donahue
New English Review
Aug 20, 2024
Hitler Absolutely Plundered Europe
The American Spectator
Jul 13, 2024
I was called an icon of feminism but many of them forgot women’s rights
Fox News
May 09, 2024
Snowflake Work Habits
Spectator
Apr 30, 2024
An Evening in Hell
New English Review
Jun 22, 2023
The Love Song of Varian Fry
Tablet Mag
May 01, 2023
A new film details the collapse of belief in America
JNS
Apr 10, 2023
Oh Malala: Why Make a Film on Trans 'Women'?
4w
Mar 02, 2023
Rot in Hell, Harvey Weinstein
Tablet Mag
Feb 28, 2023
High Fashion Is Only Meant for Boyish Bodies, Not For the Venus of Willendorf
4W
Feb 06, 2023
Do Accomplished Women Sexually Abuse Those in Their Power?
4W
Jan 11, 2023
Review: Tar is a Caricature of a Woman with Power
4W
Jan 04, 2023
A Hometown Reverie - A Day in Borough Park
Israel National News
Sep 07, 2022
An Ode To Joy in Black And White
New English Review
May 11, 2022
My Mother's Day Treat
May 09, 2022
An Obituary For Our Cat Nora
New English Review
May 03, 2022
Only Amazing Women in My Life
The Iconoclast at New English Review
Apr 25, 2022
Setting the Record Straight on Second-Wave Feminists
4W
Apr 21, 2022
1969: The Summer of Soul
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Apr 06, 2022
« En fait, nous devons être meilleures. » Conversation avec Phyllis Chesler.
Les Glorieuses
Mar 23, 2022
A Writer’s Regrets
The Iconoclast at New English Review
Mar 08, 2022
The Company She Keeps in France
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Mar 07, 2022
Rambling Thoughts After A Snowy Day
The Iconoclast at New English Review
Feb 14, 2022
Opera Despite the Plague
New English Review
Dec 19, 2021
The Writing Life
Tablet Magazine
Dec 08, 2021
The Book of Ruth
Tablet Magazine
Nov 15, 2021
A Nazi mass murderer goes to Hollywood
Israel National News
Oct 31, 2021
How I Had to Fight My Publishers over Everything
4W
Oct 25, 2021
How Our Best Feminist Work Goes Out of Print and Stays There
4W
Oct 18, 2021
James Bond and I Go Back a Long Way
New English Review
Oct 11, 2021
People just love dead Jews
Israel National News
Oct 05, 2021
Reviewers Who Don a Writer’s Skin
New English Review
Sep 22, 2021
At War, Redeemed by a Moment of Opera: Aria Code
Aria Code
Aug 25, 2021
How Dare the French Do This?
New English Review
Jun 25, 2021
Another Woman Down
New English Review
Jun 18, 2021
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make Her Disappear
New English Review
May 27, 2021
In the Shadow of a Rainbow: The True Story of a Friendship Between Man and Wolf
New English Review
Apr 20, 2021
Woke Andrea Dworkin
Tablet Magazine
Apr 09, 2021
Can straight actors play gays?
American Thinker
Mar 05, 2021
The Sublime Sonya
New English Review
Mar 02, 2021
Eternal Hope in Norway: A Film Review
New English Review
Mar 02, 2021
Andrea Revised: Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist As Revolutionary by Martin Duberman
Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence
Jan 27, 2021
My Life at the Film Festival
New English Review
Jan 21, 2021
Are you pro-Israel? Then we'll pan your books on feminism
Israel National News
Dec 03, 2020
The Photographer Down the Hall
New English Review
Apr 06, 2020
What the Shut-in Watches
New English Review
Apr 02, 2020
Mr. Tambourine Man, Play A(nother) Song for Me
New English Review
Mar 30, 2020
The film “Hotel Mumbai” is a Must-See in order to understand what’s happening in India
New English Review
Mar 17, 2020
Rest in Peace, dearest Diva
New English Review
Mar 10, 2020
Hannah’s War on the Upper East Side
New English Review
Mar 04, 2020
What’s Popular, What’s Not
New English Review
Feb 19, 2020
Old Manhattan, Still Standing, but Owned By Others
New English Review
Feb 18, 2020
Old Manhattan Has Disappeared Before My Eyes
New English Review
Feb 17, 2020
Counting Our Blessings
New English Review
Feb 14, 2020
Francoise Atlan, superb Sephardic-Arabic-Moroccan singer
New English Review
Feb 14, 2020
Plisetskaya—Sublime Prima Ballerina, superb at 62
New English Review
Feb 12, 2020
Meghan and Her Prince in the New World
New English Review
Feb 11, 2020
The Oscars—No, No, No.
New English Review
Feb 10, 2020
Half Time at the Super Bowl
New English Review
Feb 03, 2020
The Movie 'Bombshell' was quite a bombshell for me personally
New English Review
Feb 02, 2020
AN ALL FEMALE CREW SAILED AROUND THE WORLD
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Jul 02, 2019
They do not care if they go down in history as barbarians
Israel National News
Jun 30, 2019
My Granddaughters, Dancing
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Jun 10, 2019
The joy of literature without politics
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Apr 09, 2019
The Divine Maria Callas
New English Review
Nov 21, 2018
Wonderful Endorsements, Please Share My Joy
Phyllis Chesler Organization
May 21, 2018
A Judge in the Family and Artemisia off-Broadway
Phyllis Chesler Organization
May 21, 2018
Leah Napolin, Whose ‘Yentl’ Adaptation Made Broadway, Dies at 83
New York Times
May 16, 2018
Book review: Hello, Refugees! by Tuvia Tenenbom
Elder of Ziyon Blogspot
Aug 07, 2017
A 1931-32 Literary Masterpiece About Jews: Revived, Retranslated
Israel National News
Jun 26, 2017
The quest for honesty about Jews and Israel
Israel National News
Jun 11, 2017
Ariana Grande's Manchester charity concert is the kind of Girl Power we can all support
FOX News
Jun 01, 2017
Houellebecq’s Islamic “Submission” through American eyes
Israel National News
Mar 30, 2017
Jezebel and Ancient Times Come to Life in Martha Shelley's Fiction
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Mar 09, 2017
A Woman's Place
Huffington Post
Mar 01, 2017
The Lies They Tell - Tuvia Tenenbom's latest book
Israel National News
Feb 25, 2017
A Gratifying Appraisal of My Work
Journal of Women and Therapy
Jan 25, 2017
The ongoing NYT propaganda campaign
Arutz Sheva
Sep 23, 2016
Renowned Women’s Rights Champion Blasts ‘Politically Correct Faux Feminists’ for Attacks Against ‘Zionist’ Star of Wonder Woman Movie
The Algemeiner
Jul 26, 2016
This Bigoted Radical Doesn’t Deserve a ‘Feminist Artist’ Award
New York Post
Jun 01, 2016
Feminist Totally Occupied by Palestine
Israel National News
May 24, 2016
Celebration For Phyllis Chesler from Nancy Azara
YouTube
Dec 15, 2015
DUKHTAR: AWARD-WINNING FILM HIGHLIGHTS STRUGGLE OF PAKISTANI WOMEN
Phyllis Chesler Organization
Sep 16, 2015
Six PEN Writers Withdraw From Gala, Oppose Award to Charlie Hebdo
Israel National News
May 01, 2015
145 Authors Protest 'Freedom of Expression' Award to Charlie Hebdo as Islamophobic
Breitbart
May 01, 2015
"Complicit": FDR's Refusal to Save the Jews on the MS St. Louis
Israel National News
Apr 20, 2015
ISGAP Fellow Phyllis Chesler on The Hijacking of History by Opera: The Death of Klinghoffer
ISGAP
Oct 24, 2014
Op-Ed: What Would Toscanini Do?
Israel National News
Oct 23, 2014
Israel-Hatred 'Has Scaled the Wall of High Culture'
Israel National News
Oct 21, 2014
Op-Ed: A Talk with Director Gloria Greenfield: "Body and Soul"
Israel National News
Oct 20, 2014
Opera v. truth: The fetid fouls of 'Death of Klinghoffer'
New York Post
Oct 19, 2014
This Show Must Not Go On: Protest Rally at the Met
Israel National News
Sep 23, 2014
Klinghoffer: The Beatification of Terrorism
Breitbart
Sep 17, 2014
I Won the National Jewish Book Award!
Jan 15, 2014
Mukhtar Mai: The Opera
On The Issues Magazine
Jan 13, 2014
Q&A with Phyllis Chesler
Rifflebooks.com
Dec 18, 2013
Doris Lessing: R.I.P.
On The Issues Magazine
Nov 18, 2013
Cinematic Apartheid, the Folly of Appeasement, and the Righteous Artists of our Time
Israel National News
Jul 25, 2013
Op-Ed: L'Attentat: Suicide Bombing as a Female Career Option
Israel National News
Jun 26, 2013
Hacked - Thank You!
The Times of Israel
Jun 20, 2013
The Reluctantly Racist Filmmaker
The Times of Israel
May 08, 2013
For Ruth. A Tribute
Apr 24, 2013
"The Gatekeepers" Opens the Gate for Anti-Zionism
Israel National News
Apr 02, 2013
Jill Johnston: Word-Dancer
Nov 13, 2012
Dear Dawn. Aileen Wournos In Her Own Words
Nov 11, 2012
A Liberal vs. Multiculturalism: An Interview with Salim Mansur
PJ Media
Mar 02, 2012
I Am A Navy SEAL
PJ Media
Feb 24, 2012
Conversation in Two Beds
R.D. LAING 50 years since The Divided Self
Jan 01, 2012
My Week With Marilyn: When Innocence Was Sexy
PJ Media
Dec 04, 2011
My Meeting with The Girl With Three Legs
PJ Media
Nov 09, 2011
What Pre-Teen Princesses Can Learn from Shrek as They Become Warrior Women
PJ Media
Nov 02, 2011
Jewish Umbrella Group Defends Wiesenfeld in CUNY/Kushner Saga
NewsRealBlog
May 17, 2011
SPME to CUNY on Kushner's Honor: 'reverse this deeply uninformed decision'
NewsRealBlog
May 16, 2011
Just Who Nominated Tony Kushner WON'T Surprise You
NewsRealBlog
May 10, 2011
CUNY Trustees Set to Honor Anti-Israel Playwright
NewsRealBlog
May 07, 2011
Communist University of NY (CUNY) Denies Honor to Israel-Bashing Playwright Tony Kushner
NewsRealBlog
May 06, 2011
And the Oscar Goes to … Racist Jew-Hater Jean-Luc Godard
NewsRealBlog
Oct 25, 2010
The 99 Muslim Superheros Cartoons
77 WABC: Aaron Klein Investigative Radio
Oct 24, 2010
A Disturbing Double Standard
FOX News
Oct 13, 2010
A New Kind of Theatre: Actors Against Israel
Israel National News
Sep 15, 2010
Mel Gibson Redux
Pajamas Media
Jul 23, 2010
Mel Gibson: Misogynist, Racist, Anti-Semite - and Great Actor
Pajamas Media
Jul 21, 2010
Sex, Lies, and Blogging Standards
Pajamas Media
Jul 19, 2010
Wonder Woman the Non-American: How Soon Will She Be Wearing A Burqa?
NewsRealBlog
Jul 05, 2010
Islamic Homosexual Pederasty and Afghanistan's "Dancing Boys"
Pajamas Media
Apr 21, 2010
Death By Hijab
NewsRealBlog
Apr 12, 2010
Islamist Takeover of Manhattan, No Bullets Fired
Pajamas Media
Apr 08, 2010
The Goddess That Failed
Pajamas Media
Mar 05, 2010
Artists Against Hatred: Confronting Genocide in the Middle East
Pajamas Media
Mar 03, 2010
Gender, Modernity and Liberty
Middle East Quarterly
Jan 13, 2010
Killing Jews in Oregon, Embracing Terrorists Off-Broadway
Pajamas Media
Oct 18, 2009
Arrivederci, Roma
Pajamas Media
Sep 12, 2009
Postcard from Bella Roma
Pajamas Media
Sep 08, 2009
Loving Books, Fearing For Their Future
The Jewish Press
Jul 22, 2009
Death to the Turbans, No More Stoning: Free Iran
Pajamas Media
Jul 11, 2009
Consolation in a Time of Madness
Pajamas Media
May 15, 2009
Marilyn Horne: An Evening with an American Legend
Pajamas Media
Dec 06, 2008
A Seriously Summer Reading List
Pajamas Media
Jun 11, 2008
Musings on a Rainy Afternoon
Pajamas Media
May 20, 2008
Full Circle: A Memoir
City Journal
Jan 09, 2008
Sad, Mad and Bad
The Globe and Mail
Dec 29, 2007
Land of the High Flags
City Journal
Nov 21, 2007
Palestine on the Pacific
Pajamas Media
Oct 10, 2007
The Devil in Darfur
FrontPage Magazine
Aug 09, 2007
A Mighty Big Lie
FrontPage Magazine
Jun 29, 2007
A Brief And Shining Moment Of Cultural Literacy
Jewish Press
Mar 22, 2006
When Reel Life Intrudes on the Mideast Conflict
Forward
Dec 30, 2005
France's Intifada
FrontPage Magazine
Nov 07, 2005
Murder, Lies, and Videotape
FrontPage Magazine
Nov 01, 2005
Remarks for Dworkin's Memorial
May 19, 2005
The Sins of Omission, Part Two
The Jewish Press
Aug 25, 2004
The Sins of Omission
FrontPage Magazine
Aug 17, 2004
Great Artistry, Dangerous Prejudice
Midstream
Apr 30, 2004
The Anti-Semitic Intelligentsia
FrontPage Magazine
Aug 21, 2003
Maria Callas: The Opera
On The Issues Magazine
Aug 31, 1999
A Meditation on the Sea
On The Issues Magazine
Oct 27, 1998
Feminism and Illness
On The Issues Magazine
Sep 19, 1992
Review of Andrea Dworkin's Mercy
Aug 31, 1991
Phyllis Chesler's Comments on Grandmother Moon
Grandmother Moon: Lunar Magic in Our Lives--Spells, Rituals, Goddesses, Legends, and Emotions Under the Moon
Apr 14, 1991
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