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In a shocking turn of events even by Israeli political standards, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon resigned from government on Friday over what he called a “lack of confidence” in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

There is a truth universally acknowledged among the better Jewish families of the late-American period: when a well-to-do and well-accessorized female relative has unfortunately passed, one really ought to wait an appropriately tasteful length of time before calling dibs on any of the deceased’s more valuable possessions. It’s as my mother says, “Why don’t we at least put the rest of the shiva kugel away before you start fighting over who’s getting grandma’s diamond tennis bracelet?”

In 2005, Abigail Pogrebin published Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. The following is an excerpt from the chapter about Morley Safer, the Canadian-American broadcast journalist best known for his tenure as a reporter on CBS‘ 60 Minutes, who died on Thursday at the age of 83.

Greetings from the Cannes Film Festival, the annual entertainment circus where the arthouse films that screen for audiences inside the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès can sometimes feel more realistic than the carnival of fame, ego, and wealth taking place on the red carpet. This year marks the 69th time this spectacle has been held on the French Riviera, where stars, producers, directors, distributors, and 5000 sleep-deprived press watch the premieres of dozens of films from around the world. Читать дальше...

Itzik Galili laughed when asked to describe his movement style. “Everyone tries to put you in certain boxes. I simply don’t fit into a category,” he said in a phone interview. “Each piece I create comes from a different inspiration and evolves from the bodies of the dancers I’m working with.”

On Nov. 30, 1965, Bob Dylan walked into a studio in New York City to continue recording an album, his third that year. He had begun working on it two months earlier, but distractions abounded, including marrying his girlfriend, Sara Lownds, and divorcing his bandleader, Levon Helm, who was tired of playing second snare to a capricious 24-year-old who was just as gnomic instructing his musicians as he was in his inscrutable lyrics. None of these entanglements were evident, however, when Dylan entered the studio that winter day. Читать дальше...

Sholem Aleichem, the celebrated Yiddish writer behind the stories of Tevye the Dairyman, which inspired the beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof, died 100 years ago last Friday. Fiddler, of course, continues to entertain audiences around the world, with its seemingly everlasting narrative and music. Fittingly, the Broadway production of Fiddler was recently nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival.