Новости за 12.11.2015

Today is the day of the Million Student March, a grassroots initiative by young activists that will call for tuition-free public college, student debt cancellation, and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers. For many students, it’s an opportunity to protest for reforms they believe in. But for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in New York, it’s been a chance instead to blame “the Zionists” for everything wrong with the university system.

It’s a constant truism, no less enduring for being out of date: every girl looking for a husband wants to marry either someone who is exactly like her father, or someone who is the exact opposite of her father. But what happens when a woman’s father somehow manages to turn her off from ever marrying—or even dating—anyone at all? That’s the take I got upon reading about Emily Stern, the daughter of legendary radio shock-jock Howard, who became an Orthodox Jew who became observant in adulthood and... Читать дальше...

Jack Yufe and Oskar Stohr first met in Germany when they were 21 years old. They were both sporting the same suit and wire-rimmed glasses, and even wore the same mustache and receding hairline. They looked alike—identical, actually—because they were. Yufe and Stohr were identical twins. And yet they did not like each another very much, beginning with their first meeting in 1954. In fact, they lived very different lives perhaps best communicated by the fact that Yufe was raised Jewish while Stohr was a member of the Hitler Youth. Читать дальше...

I informed my children that they were going to a museum last week on Election Day, when there was no school. Moaning occurred. Also whining. I had to bribe them with the promise of ice cream.

This week on Unorthodox: Preaching to the unconverted.

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A local news station in Los Angeles has published a year-long investigation about a possible cover-up scandal involving nuclear waste miles from a sleepaway camp and retreat space for young adults, where they may have been exposed to radiation and other hazardous materials over the last 65 years. The story, which aired on NBC Los Angeles on Monday, claims that top officials at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute (BBI) of American Jewish University in Simi Valley, California, a world renowned center for Jewish learning... Читать дальше...