Новости за 23.03.2016

I know what you’re thinking: It’s Purim, all I wanna do is go get sloshed in a cool-looking costume, but here we are again, having to read articles that effectively ruin my harmless, innocent fun with these themes of #PurimNotPrejudice, just like last year. Well, yes, but no.

Were you to read a portion of the New York Times‘ display copy this morning, you’d probably not be expressly aware of the fact that Bernie Sanders won more states—and more delegates—than Hillary Clinton in Wednesday’s primaries in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. “Frontrunners Take Arizona,” read one headline, “Cruz and Sanders Also Win.”

The work of Carolee Schneemann—the legendary performance artist whose brand of visual experimentation and expression wowed audiences during Fluxus-dominated New York scene of ’60s and ’70s—is featured in a new monograph released this week. Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting is the first complete retrospective of the Schneemann’s artistic career. The 320-page book features her paintings and other visual works, alongside depictions of her various groundbreaking performances, including Meat Joy... Читать дальше...

Welcome back to #TrumpWatch, where Tablet presents the daily low-lights of Donald Trump’s attempt to use the dark forces of bigotry to become President of the United States. Today, we point out an op-ed from Rabbi Menachem Creditor on the Times of Israel website, in which he calls out the AIPAC for applauding Donald Trump, and giving him a standing ovation when he attacked President Obama, who, the Republican presidential frontrunner said “may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel, believe me... Читать дальше...

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is fond of telling the story of his introduction to Judaism. An African-American Baptist, Booker attended Oxford University in the early 1990s as a Rhodes Scholar. There, he had a chance encounter with a young Chabad rabbi named Shmuley Boteach that sparked a lifelong interest in the Jewish faith. Booker would eventually become co-president of Boteach’s L’Chaim Society—its first non-Jewish leader—and would maintain a decades-long friendship with the rabbi and an immersion in Jewish study. Читать дальше...

Two unforgettable cast members of Eye in the Sky, a gripping film about the morality of drone warfare, have no spoken lines. Hovering in silence above a group of Al Shabab terrorists in a house in a crowded Nairobi suburb, a cyborg hummingbird on a lamppost overlooking the house and an even smaller surveillance bee perched on a rafter inside the house provide a steady stream of video of those inside, as well as their activities. Higher above them is an American surveillance drone, the Reaper.

On stage, Diva D looked tiny. She weighed maybe a hundred pounds, mostly bone and made-up skin in a strapless black cocktail dress. But like most drag queens under a spotlight, she was loud. And mean. She also speaks four languages and performed weekly in what was then Jerusalem’s only gay club, the Mikveh.

Have you ever been to a Shabbat dinner during which an annoying family member won’t stop kvetching about Israeli politics, even though you’re pretty sure he doesn’t know what he’s talking about? And then this same person seems to insinuate, stubbornly, that you should agree? Well, one proper and mature response would be to simply defer and say, “I don’t know.”