Новости за 01.12.2015

On Monday, Salmon Salczer, the manager of West Side Judaica & Bookstore located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, saw a man in front of his store who was looking inside through the glass. So Salczer, 52, walked outside—in broad daylight—to see what was up, and approached the man. “As as he exited the store,” reported JP Updates, “the suspect approached Mr. Salczer and repeatedly punched him in the face while yelling, ‘Fuck you Jews, I’ll kill you, I’m a Muslim.’” The suspect, who is believed to be in his twenties... Читать дальше...

Cooking with oils can get complicated, especially around Hanukkah. On one hand, consuming latkes, sufganiyot (Israeli jelly doughnuts), Bimuelos, and other foods doused in artery-clogging lipids, is ingrained in Jewish tradition. On the other hand, many of us want to keep our diets and those of loved one’s healthy enough to see next year’s candles, while still preserving the taste of the Hanukkah delicacies we love. What to do? The following research about oils offers guidance and even glimmers of good news. Читать дальше...

The holiday of Hanukkah is a tricky one. The story, as we all know, is that at the urging of the Tobiads, an assimilationist faction of Hellenist Jews, the Syrian-Greek monarch Antiochus IV Epiphanes invaded Judea and immediately set about abolishing all expressions of Judaism, including the dedication of an altar to Zeus in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.

New Yorkers who can never get enough of Jerry Seinfeld are in luck because now they can leave their homes in between binge-watching sessions of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and Seinfeld, and watch their beloved comedian perform stand-up live—and nearby—once every month in the new year ahead.

Shachar Rabinovitch is 13. She lives in Israel. As you can see, she loves horses. When her school asked her to write a term paper, she decided to write about her favorite animal. And because she’s a diligent and serious student, she went online and searched for an expert who could help her with her paper. She found Dr. Marsha Ann Levine, a lecturer in Cambridge University whose areas of research include “Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry.”

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

On May 24, 2014, a man wearing a dark baseball cap and carrying several bags walked into the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in the center of Brussels. It was 10 minutes to four. The man pulled out an AK-47 and started shooting. Ninety seconds later, three museum visitors were dead; a fourth, critically injured in the attack, would later die of his wounds. The shooter managed to escape on foot and was captured six days later, after a nationwide manhunt. He was revealed to be Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old... Читать дальше...

As I stood on the bimah of Temple Emanu-El in New York City in April, I fidgeted with my tie, smiled my “rabbi smile,” and shook lots of hands. But inside, as I waited to get my honorary degree, I felt like an outsider and wondered if I should have come.

Nikolay Nedzelskiy—Kolya, to his friends—was one of the first Russians I befriended when I lived in Moscow from 1993 to 1997. He had HIV—a fact he did not hide, even in an era when an HIV diagnosis meant almost certain death. Russia, in particular, was a country where treatment opportunities were close to nil.

Earlier this month at the famed Oxford Union debating society, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz prevailed in a showdown with U.K. human rights activist Peter Tatchell over the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. The official motion was “Is the BDS movement against Israel wrong?” and after over an hour of debate, Dershowitz emerged victorious by a vote of 137-101. It was a surprising outcome given the general hostility towards the Jewish state on European university campuses. Читать дальше...

In its heyday, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest Reform temple in Los Angeles and national treasure, was the “it” synagogue, abuzz with Hollywood elite during the Golden Age of filmmaking, with members such as the Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Henry Winkler (“The Fonz”) and members of the Three Stooges. On the inside, the shul is adorned with beautiful stained-glass windows and opulent murals painted by silent movie filmmaker Hugo Ballin. (The “Warner Murals” were commissioned by Jack... Читать дальше...