Новости за 03.06.2016

Over the last few months, the British Labour party has been rocked by a widening anti-Semitism scandal. Low-lights include the party’s former mayor of London Ken Livingstone claiming Hitler was a Zionist, one of its MPs advocating the forcible relocation of Israel to America, and an array of other political officials disseminating conspiracy theories about Israel controlling ISIS and Jewish bankers controlling England.

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, let’s turn our attention to television legend Norman Lear, who recently weighed in on The Donald’s meteoric rise.

I’ll never forget the first time I heard “Songbird” by Kenny G. I was just a pimply kid then, sitting in some beige waiting room, when a slimy saxophonic glitter fell from the sky and coated my ears in honey. Bee boo bee, boo bee boo bee, boo bee boo bee, it dripped, scurrying me into a land filled with clovers and sex and pools that are already body temperature so that you can just slide right on it.

Spend any time around prominent opinionated Jews on the Internet, particularly on platforms like Reddit or Twitter, and you’re likely to encounter an odd anti-Semitic practice. White supremacists associated with the alt-right, many of them avid supporters of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, like to highlight Jewish users for targeting with parentheses: (((Rosenberg))), for example.

I make a lot of jokes about the Holocaust. It’s something I’ve done my entire life, a sort of evolutionary protective response to the existential sense of dread I felt as a child every time I passed the rough-hewn iron sculpture that served as the Holocaust Memorial at our local JCC. And I’ve gotten really good at it over the years.

I make a lot of jokes about the Holocaust. It’s something I’ve done my entire life, a sort of evolutionary protective response to the existential sense of dread I felt as a child every time I passed the rough-hewn iron sculpture that served as the Holocaust Memorial at our local JCC. And I’ve gotten really good at it over the years.

In January, I visited Polish artist Monika Weiss in her New York studio, and we talked about the lamentation project and a few others she’s worked on recently. Weiss, who is in her early fifties, dresses in black and has a lovely pale, oval face. Her dark hair is wrapped tightly behind her ears so it almost looks as though she wears a Commedia dell’arte skullcap. Not a sad clown but a transdisciplinary artist, Weiss has built a reputation for installations that include drawings of her own body... Читать дальше...

The first thing I noticed when my plane touched down in Rome, in the year 2000, my first real visit other than a barely recalled weekend in college 15 years earlier, was that the women swarming around baggage claim all looked like me. They were much more stylish, of course, with their characteristic bella figura, the Italian way of always putting one’s best face forward, no schlumping around in sweatpants and running shoes. But like me, they had dark eyes, dark hair, bodies with a little curve to them... Читать дальше...

The most important news story out of Israel last week had nothing to do with Moshe Ya’alon’s resignation as minister of Defense, or the controversial appointment of Avigdor Lieberman in his stead, or any of the other political reindeer games that regularly frustrate and amuse Israelis. Instead, it was a brief report that was forgotten as soon as it was published: Because of budgetary constraints, the Israel Defense Forces cannot afford to replace asbestos-ridden parts used in tanks and armored personnel carriers... Читать дальше...

Der Schelm, a publishing house in Leipzig, Germany—it’s owned by Adrian Plessinger, who has been “convicted of multiple counts of inciting racial hatred” according to Deutsche Wells—has begun selling a new edition of the 1943 version of Mein Kampf that is “unchanged and without comment.” Doing so may be against the law.