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Trip Advisor, a travel website, just published its listing of the Top 25 Museums in the World according to travelers who have rated their visits to these renowned sites. Coming in at No. 22 is none other than Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, accompanied by an evening-lit panoramic image of the site. Notably, Yad Vashem beat out the Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses in Xian, China (we all ooh-ed and ahh-ed about it in grade school), but didn’t quite outpace Brazil’s Inhotim... Читать дальше...

The premiere of the 19th season of South Park earlier this week revolved around a single joke: the school’s long-time principal is fired for failing to curb speech some students found hurtful, and is replaced by PC Principal, a frat boy dudebro in Oakleys and chinos whose great passion in life is policing any utterance anyone might find even remotely offensive.

In the midst of tuning out from the Wednesday’s Republican debate by perusing the latest tweets, I came across a pronouncement which naturally drew the eye, “Wtf is turd ferguson?” I immediately thought, Oh no, one of the candidates is going to be in major trouble. Clearly I, unlike many other social media users, was not up on my Saturday Night Live trivia.

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There are two things that predictably make me tear up whenever I see them depicted on screen or in print: cruelty to animals and cruelty to children. And yes, I know the tired adage about how you can spot a sociopath due to her empathy towards these two groups, and these two groups only, so let me just say: a lot of other things make me sad as well, but these are the biggies.

Half a century ago I was the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed young West Coast correspondent working for the 4-million-reader newspaper the London Daily Express in an era when people actually read newspapers. I’d grown up in a Conservative Jewish home in the East End of London at a time when young Jews in Britain’s mostly Anglo-Saxon community, post-World War II, still didn’t feel that comfortable.

This coming Tuesday is a momentous day on the Jewish calendar, a day of awe, a day for all of us to congregate and communally ponder the ancient rituals and quiet beliefs that bind us to each other and to our faith. That’s because this Tuesday, a short while after Kol Nidre ends, the new era of the Muppets will dawn with a brand new show on ABC.

By the time I emailed Avner, I wasn’t even sure he would respond. We hadn’t spoken in over a year, since a disastrous weekend the summer before I started college that had finally ended our complicated, years long, on again/off again relationship. But Yom Kippur was looming, and he was at the top of my list. Tradition demanded I give it a try.

In a speech last week about Iran’s nuclear agreement with the West, which is supposed to monitor his country’s nuclear facilities over the next 25 years, Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: “I say [to Israel] that you will not live to see the end of these 25 years. With the help of Allah, there will no longer be anything called the Zionist regime in another 25 years. Until that happens, the struggle and the jihad will not give the Zionists a single moment of serenity.”

Ann Coulter went off the rails Wednesday night during the Republican presidential primary debate. Apparently angry that several of the candidates kept referring to Israel, Coulter tweeted: “How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?”