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It’s becoming an ugly scene within Britain’s Labour Party over the subject of anti-Semitism, to the point where the Senior Labour leader Louise Ellman said relations between the party and the Jewish community had hit ‘rock bottom,’ ” reported JTA, citing a report from The Guardian.

We are grownups. We do not have time to come up with elaborate last-minute Purim costumes. (And let me say for the record if anyone in my shul shows up dressed as Donald Trump with a Cheeto-dusted face, so help me God I will rip that flossy wig right off their head so fast it’ll make a RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant spin.)

Chef Ari White of the Wandering Que was named the Brisket King of New York City after judges voted his lamb brisket tops in the Big Apple. He also presented a cured lambcetta (drool) at an annual competition earlier this month. It looked delicious. Winners in other categories were Blue Smoke (for the “smoked” category) and Cannibal (for brisket innovation).

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

In one of my favorite childhood photographs, I’m dressed like Queen Esther on her wedding day, holding a nosegay of purple flowers. It was taken on Purim when I was a little girl, at an age when I normally eschewed frills and fuss. According to family lore, I liked to tear the ribbons off my dresses. Occasionally, I’d even disrobe, leaving the offending frocks in heaps on the ground.

In mid-March 2016 the world marked five years since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria. The number of those killed in the fighting approached half a million. About 10 million Syrians, amounting to about half the population of the state, had lost their homes, and about 8 million had become refugees, fleeing abroad to neighboring Arab states, Turkey, and Europe. About three-quarters of Syria’s social and economic infrastructures—including the health, education, transportation, electricity, and water systems... Читать дальше...

Writing for a Jewish publication, it is tempting to cast Donald Trump’s speech at AIPAC as a purely Jewish story. It was, after all, delivered at the annual gathering of the world’s premier pro-Israel organization. But whatever the reception to Trump’s speech says about Jews and AIPAC—little of it good—it pales in comparison to what the speech tells us about Trump as a viable politician and presidential candidate. And what it does tell us should frighten every American.

I have a confession: I’m supporting Hillary Clinton for president.

This shouldn’t be a radical admission. After all, as the former Secretary of State herself reminded everyone last week, she has received more votes this election season than any other candidate running for any party’s nomination, including Donald Trump. Clearly, I’m in good company, right?

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