Anti-Judaism

No, Jazz Saturdays | Athens | November 9 – 30 

The Theater of the No (3 Konstantinou Paleologou) presents "No, Jazz Saturdays," a series of jazz concerts taking place every Saturday in November. The series gets under way with the Jim Kassavetis Quartet, featuring the internationally acclaimed saxophonist Gilad Atzmon. Tickets cost 10 euros at more.com. 

Feminists Protested Against Film Director Roman Polanski

Activists of the Femen movement protested last night in front of the French Film Institute, where director Roman Polanski presented the first film in retrospective of his work, BNT reported.

Dozens of protesters chanted, and two Femen activists exposed their breasts to reveal their bodies, saying, "A very important pedophile criminal."

Jihad and death

'Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State' by Olivier Roy, translated by Cynthia Schoch (Hurst, 130 pages, £16)

After every jihadi attack in the West, fevered media debate centers on familiar questions. Who are these people? What is their relation to ISIS? How to stop them? Why do "they" hate "us"?

Gearing up for the mother of all wars

Tensions are building up. It is as if several key actors are collaborating viciously to send the world into a catastrophe. Will it be a third world war, as some pundits have started talking about, or will it be the "mother of all wars" - as the propaganda minister of the devastated dictator Saddam Hussein of yesterday's Iraq talked about while the Americans almost occupied all of Baghdad?