Новости за 21.12.2015

Amir Ohana, the head of Likud’s LGBT caucus, will soon be sworn in to the Knesset. He will become the right-wing party’s first openly gay MK, joining Uzi Even, Itzik Scmuli (currently serving), and Nitzan Horowitz who have come out in the past. At number 32 on Likud’s list of parlimentarians, the door was opened for Ohana after Silvan Shalom—Israel’s Interior Minister, who also serves as Vice Prime Minister—resigned on Sunday due multiple sexual harassment allegations.

Editor’s note: The following is the text of a keynote address delivered by Menachem Z. Rosensaft in Tel Aviv on Monday at the first gathering of children born in Displaced Persons camps. Rosensaft, the son of two Holocaust survivors, was born on May 1, 1948, in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp.

I’ve seen a number of Fiddler productions over the years and find they tend to blend into one amorphous hora. I don’t recall many specifics from the Jerome Robbins/Zero Mostel original I saw in 1964, other than that Mostel’s portrayal of Tevye was a not-too-distant cousin of the Max Bialystock he would creat for Mel Brooks a few years later. Yes, I know about Topol, and Herschel Bernardi, and Theodore Bikel, but I would venture to say that Danny Burstein, who plays Tevye in the the current production of Fiddler... Читать дальше...

Natalie Portman, one of Tablet’s favorite leading ladies, is currently shooting her new film Jackie, in which she portrays first lady Jackie Kennedy in the days following the gruesome assassination of her husband on November 22, 1963. The film, which is being produced by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and directed by Pablo Larraín is reportedly being bring shot in Paris and is slated for release in 2017. Last week, an image of Portman in full Jackie get-up was released. Feast your eyes.

In 1944, Ludwig Pfeuffer was a 20-year-old soldier stationed in Egypt with the British Army. Born in Wurzburg, Germany, to a family that had lived there for centuries, the young Ludwig had fled the Third Reich with his parents in 1935 and made a new life in British-controlled Palestine. The British were not exactly popular with the Jews of Palestine—the government had limited Jewish immigration at a crucial moment and continually put off the creation of a Jewish state. But during World War II... Читать дальше...

Before Rosh Hashanah, my neighbor stopped me on the street to tell me I should visit his Chabad House. But he wasn’t pitching the services he holds there. He was pitching honey cake—or more specifically, his six daughters of marrying age who make honey cake. He was looking for a son-in-law; I was looking for a way out of the conversation.