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In the last week or so, New York City has played host to a number of significant officials: Pope Francis, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. On Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech to the UN general assembly, noting that Palestinians “cannot continue to be bound” by the Oslo Peace Accords since “Israel continuously violates them.”

Behold, the geniuses have been announced!

On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation, embarking on its 34th year of genius-bequeathing, announced its 2015 fellows. Each will receive a “genius grant” in the amount of $625,000 over a period of five years. Among the class, at least three of them are Jewish and one is a Jewish studies professor, reported The Forward. Let’s meet them:

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There’s a lot going right for Amy Schumer, and with success come money. Earlier this month, Schumer was awarded the first Emmy of her career, earning the statue for Best Variety Sketch Series for Inside Amy Schumer. The comedienne also announced she’d struck a deal to headline New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the first woman in history to do so. Schumer’s hot.

Blessed is this day, “for unto us a child is born; unto us a child is given.” Pardon my Messianic fervor, but news has just come down the pipe that Adam Brody, the Ultimate Jewish Boy of All Time, has just been presented with a baby daughter by his wife, Leighton Meester, who isn’t Jewish but who I always subconsciously think is, because what else could Blair Waldorf be? (The couple officially became parents in August, but they’ve held the announcement because they are very private people, as all celebrity couples are... Читать дальше...

Reading that Ralph Lauren was stepping down as head of the company he named after himself was, for me, a little bit like reading that a favorite baseball player I’d long since forgotten about was retiring. If you’d asked me if this childhood hero was still doing his thing, punching his time-card, I’d have said that, well, yes, I guess so. But the only Polo or Ralph Lauren items I own right now are deep-discount sheets from T.J. Maxx. No ponies in my stables these days.

The name Guggenheim is synonymous with modern art. That’s thanks to Solomon Guggenheim and his famous museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Credit also goes to his niece Peggy, who championed icons like Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky and established influential galleries in New York, London, and Venice, where she eventually settled. Guggenheim […]

The name Guggenheim is synonymous with modern art. That’s thanks to Solomon Guggenheim and his famous museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Credit also goes to his niece Peggy, who championed icons like Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky and established influential galleries in New York, London, and Venice, where she eventually settled. Guggenheim also lived a unique personal life; she was twice married—once to the painter Max Ernst—and claimed in her memoirs to have had a thousand lovers, including Samuel Beckett. Читать дальше...

Known as “the Israeli locavore,” food expert Uri Mayer-Chissick has written two books—one about Israel’s edible wild plants, the other about local foods in the Levant—and he lectures and consults on a wide variety of related topics, including traditional natural medicine. His master’s thesis was on the history of food preparation, and his PhD from Haifa University was on traditional medicine in the Medieval Arab era. But in a sense his career truly began about 15 years ago in the kitchen, not the classroom, when he met his wife Tali. Читать дальше...

In 1960, a young Israeli boy, Yossele Schumacher, was abducted by his Orthodox grandparents and hidden from his secular parents and the Israeli authorities. Within a few weeks all Israelis knew of the case. The press widely publicized the story, and the Knesset debated its implications. The Israeli police avidly sought the 8-year-old boy and searched every Orthodox community in Israel for him. His epic would last until, and beyond, a milestone event celebrated 50 years ago this month.