Новости за 21.10.2015

Former porn star Jenna Jameson is proving to be a vociferous pro-Israel tribe member.

Daniel Ben-Shabbat is a young Israeli soldier. Like all young Israeli soldiers, she doesn’t like Sundays. On Sundays, young Israeli soldiers have to wake up early, put on their uniform, and hop a bus back to their base after a weekend at home. This is never pleasant, and even less so when the country is seized by a wave of Palestinian terrorism that puts everyone, but soldiers especially, on edge.

A Groupon in Israel offered a $64 steal on a stab-proof vest (it flopped). Now there’s a deal up for grabs that’s a little less ominous: wicked cheap, all-inclusive vacations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, or the Sea of Galilee, in an attempt to encourage tourism amid ongoing conflict in the region.

Last week, a Jordanian-Palestinian man recorded a conversation he had with his daughter, and posted the video to Facebook. These types of conversations—of cute kids in pigtails saying stuff—are commonplace on social media, of course. But this video sticks out because this particular cute child said “I want to stab a Jew” while holding a knife so big it extends from her chin to her waist.

Adam Zertal, a prominent Israeli archaeologist and expert in ancient Near East studies who spent 30 years surveying a tremendous breadth of land in the West Bank, passed away on Sunday at the age of 79. In the 1980s, Zertal, a professor at the University of Haifa, believed the books of the Hebrew Bible could and should inform the work of contemporary archaeologists, identified an altar built by the Biblical prophet Joshua on Mount Ebal—near to where Palestinian rioters torched a holy site marking Joseph’s tomb last Thursday. Читать дальше...

Israel is embroiled in Middle Eastern geopolitics—that, at least, everyone knows. Israelis also aspire to be part of Europe and never miss a chance to reiterate their “special relationship” with the United States. But what about Africa, Israel’s next-door neighbor? For millennia, there has been a steady stream of people crisscrossing the region. On today’s show, we bring you the stories of two of them, journeying in different directions, and for very different reasons, out of—and then into—Africa. Читать дальше...

What makes a Jew pick up a gun? Like so many things about Jewish life today, the question goes directly to the deep division between American Jews and Israeli Jews. In Israel, thanks to universal army service, the sight of Jews carrying guns is commonplace; one of the Israeli products known around the world is the Uzi, even though it has not been in military service for decades. In my experience, American Jews take a particular pleasure in Facebook posts that show young Jewish soldiers, men and women... Читать дальше...

I spent the large part of my childhood comparing my mother to other children’s mothers. While theirs seemed calm and demure, mine was abrasive, combative, and quick-tempered. If I was by chance disrespectful, or if I failed to clean my room, my mother would yell at me—with a spatula in hand, for emphasis.