Новости за 14.07.2015

A couple weeks ago, Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC’s Tonight Show tripped on a braided rug in his kitchen, and fell. “I’m getting up and my finger is sideways,” Fallon told his audience today after a two week break. “It completely looks fake….like a cheap horror movie.”

I’ve never gotten so many compliments on my hair since I moved to Los Angeles. What in New York was just hair—thick and brown with a tendency to lighten in the sun, and probably, out of sheer laziness on my part, a little too long—in LA has become a totemic object. Co-workers constantly comment on its natural wave, asking if I’ve just been to the beach, or if I’m using that salt spray they sell at Kiehl’s; saleswomen at Nordstrom ask if they can touch it; and my own hairdresser, adjusting a foil... Читать дальше...

After an 18-day negotiation, a nuclear deal has been struck between Iran and 6 world powers, the so-called P5+1, led by the United States and Secretary of State John Kerry, who have reportedly won the ability to limit Tehran’s nuclear abilities in exchange for lifting a number of crippling international economic sanctions. The agreement with Iran, which remains on the U.S. “State Sponsors of Terror” list, is “not built on trust, it is built on verification,” said President Obama.

I’m conservative by most measures, and I’ve long known that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is markedly progressive on most policy issues. But I wasn’t looking for a brawl. I was simply searching for friendship. Relatively new to the Detroit metropolitan area, I was hoping to become more involved in the Jewish community and perhaps as well to partake in interesting discussions about domestic and international topics. That’s why I accepted an invitation from the Glass Leadership Institute, the ADL’s 10-month... Читать дальше...

In a way, the next war is always the previous war. The image of war is of assault and conquest of vast terrain. But in fact, war is always characterized by withdrawal. As can testify those who had fought. Not me. Because I’d rather tell the story of how I ran away from the last war to my parents, who received me with the disappointment appropriate for deserters, and why I won’t sign up for the next war, which is always also the previous one.

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

On May 4, Khader Adnan, housed in an Israeli prison under administrative detention—a practice in which a person is arrested by state authorities, and held without charges or a trial—began a fast (except for water) that would last until June 29, which is when Israel agreed to release him on July 12. During his hunger strike, Adnan, a father of six and a member of Islamic Jihad, described by CNN as “an Iranian backed militant group that has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings and rocket attacks,” had been hospitalized. Читать дальше...

Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian-Israeli woman who traveled to Syria and Iraq to join Kurdish forces in their fight against ISIS last November, returned to Israel late on Sunday. Rosenberg, who made aliyah in 2006, told Galatz (Israeli Army radio) why she decided to leave the war zone and come home: “It was a difficult decision to leave my friends in the fighting but the many of the dynamics of the war have changed and there is much more Iranian involvement. Things changed enough to make it feel it was time to come home... Читать дальше...