Новости за 11.04.2016

After her Princeton High School classmate posted a picture on social media of a drinking game called “Jews vs. Nazis”—it involved tossing ping-pong balls into beer cups arranged as Stars of David and swastikas—Jamaica Ponder did what every decent person with an uncorrupted sense of moral duty should do: she composed a short but fiery post on her blog, condemning her idiotic peers.

Recently it seems that evidence of anti-Semitism in the UK’s Labour Party—specifically via Twitter—has come with alarming consistency. It’s a cause Prime Minister Cameron has taken up in Parliament, calling on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to root it out of his party’s ranks.

On April 19, 1995, my mom went into labor while baking matzo farfel chocolate chip cookies. A few hours later, at 12:06 a.m., the break of Passover’s sixth day, I was born. When my parents were finally able to take me home from the hospital, the cookies were there, waiting for me: My mom, nervous my birth would cause her cookies to burn, made sure my aunt would know when to come over to take them out of the oven.

The story of two Jewish twentysomething arms dealers from Miami will hit the big screen this August in a new comedic drug-thriller called War Dogs, produced by Bradley Cooper (swoon) and directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover).

Michael Wex is not a chef. He’s not a lifelong challah baker, an avid cookbook collector, or even, by his own admission, much of a home cook. But his new book, Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It, might just be the most important Jewish food book published this year.

It took a while for Chanan Tigay’s eureka moment to sink in.

He had spent four years on a quest to determine the whereabouts of a group of ancient scrolls that were purported to be the oldest text of the Bible in existence—older than the Dead Sea Scrolls. They might be a source of highly significant evidence of the most ancient state of the Bible for scholars, but no one had seen the scrolls since the suicide of their last owner in 1884. And their location was only one of the mysteries surrounding the scrolls... Читать дальше...

As the authenticity of his Moabite pottery collection came under withering attack, Moses Wilhelm Shapira fell into a depression that put his business and his family under strain. His reputation had been marred. He spent a growing amount of time fighting to regain it—holding meetings, dashing off letters to the editor, trekking into Moab to prove his point. But receipts at the shop suffered. He argued with his wife Rosette and ignored the children. Maria, his youngest daughter, cried just looking at him. Читать дальше...