Новости за 11.11.2015

Ah, the venerable black-and-white cookie. No other cookie is more inextricable from the American Jewish identity—and particularly the New York Jewish identity—than this soft, sponge-like vanilla cookie that is slathered on top in equal part chocolate and vanilla fondant, right down the middle.

Deborah Kass, a modern artist whose works often produce their meanings by re-imagining the style of Andy Warhol, for one, (also Gertrude Stein and Jackson Pollack) has created a huge, yellow, sculpture that reads “OY” when looking from Brooklyn into Manhattan, and “YO” when doing the opposite. It’s eight feet high, painted and made of aluminum. It will be on display until August. Kass told The New York Times that she hatched the idea from a painting she created in 2011, which itself was a play on Edward Ruscha’s “OOF” painting. Читать дальше...

A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Daniels, a country music mainstay who’s worked with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen throughout his 60-year career—you probably know him from The Charlie Daniels Band’s 1979 hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia“—published a post on his blog titled, “The Palestinian Conundrum.” In it, Daniels, who regularly states his opinions on political matters on his “Soapbox” blog, recounts U.N. Resolution 181, which, well, did not quite work out; that “the grace of God and 24/7/365... Читать дальше...

In a long-expected move, the European Union issued guidelines on Wednesday for labeling products manufactured in Israeli-occupied territories. The rules, in the works for over a year, are to be applied at the member states’ discretion, and are mandatory for some products but not others. The explanatory EU notice states: “The European Union, in line with international law, does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967, namely the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip... Читать дальше...

It was after hours, at a storefront on 72nd Street in New York City. Inside, about a dozen journalists, myself included, chatted over glasses of wine and hors d’oeuvres, while the store’s proprietor, Paul Whitman, readied himself behind a table for a presentation. He fiddled with a computer and projector and invited everyone to take seats. Then he stopped to scrape a knife across a whetstone while one of his coworkers plunked a 25-pound beef shoulder in front of him.

In 1891, a disturbing article appeared in the North American Review, which was the 19th-century version of today’s Time—it was the country’s most popular public-affairs magazine. The article charged that Jews tended to shirk service in the military. It was soon followed by a letter to the editor from a non-Jewish Civil War veteran. He wrote that during months of service in the Union army, he had never seen a soldier who was a Jew.

The television sitcom, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, captured the sentiments of American teenagers in the 1960s who found humor in our parents’ tales of World War II. We laughed whenever Dobie’s father, Herbert T. Gillis, repeated the line, “I was in W-W-II—the big one—first sergeant, with the good conduct medal!”