Новости за 23.07.2015

An exhibition called Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait opens today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco, offering an intimate portrayal of the iconic Jazz singer from the beginning to the troubled end of her life. The display has been transplanted from the Jewish Museum in London, which initially curated the exhibit in close collaboration with the Winehouse family.

Editor’s note: On Monday evening, a 30-year-old Jewish woman named Faigy Mayer fell to her death from a rooftop bar just one block from Tablet’s offices in Manhattan. The event was reported as a suicide. Almost immediately, facts—as well as speculation—regarding Mayer’s life flooded the news cycle as the media chased after answers, from her social media profiles and other online representations, along with her friends and family, most of whom belong to the Belz Orthodox community in Brooklyn, where she grew up. Читать дальше...

I’m excited to announce that Tablet’s newest podcast, Unorthodox, is premiering next week as part of Slate’s Panoply network. Hosted by our editor-at-large Mark Oppenheimer and featuring senior writer Liel Leibovitz and myself, Unorthodox is a smart, fresh, fun take on Jewish news and culture. It’s like Tablet, but without the editors.

Two of the top candidates for the Republican nomination for president are fighting over the Iran deal. Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker says he’d tear up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Day 1 of a Walker Administration. That’s a rash novice speaking, says Jeb Bush. The former governor of Florida hates the deal, too, but says he’d have to appoint his national security cabinet and confer with allies first.

A psychological thriller set in the aftermath of World War II, the German director Christian Petzold’s Phoenix is a variant on a myth—the story of Orpheus and Eurydice—that has served many filmmakers. The tale of a poet’s descent into the underworld to retrieve his lost love (whom he loses once again because he cannot help but look back as she follows him from the land of the dead) has been recast by the movies in numerous ways. Jean Cocteau used the myth three times; Alfred Hitchcock made an Orphic thriller with Vertigo. Читать дальше...

Right on the heels of Theodore Bikel, it’s already time to mourn the passing of an all-time Jewish Great: celebrated man of letters E.L. Doctorow, who died Tuesday in Manhattan at the age of 84. A prolific author, essayist, teacher, and political commentator, Doctorow was an indispensable cultural voice for nearly five decades, although he will almost certainly—and arguably be correctly known—for his sprawling, breathtakingly accomplished and meticulously researched novels, including Billy Bathgate... Читать дальше...