Новости за 15.06.2016

With his firm hand on the helm of the vast Bravo experiment—from the inescapable and seemingly infinite Real Housewives franchise to his own late-night talk show Watch What Happens: Live—it’s more than clear that Andy Cohen is one of the most powerful forces in pop culture. Now, his influence is set to grow even further, with the announcement last week that publisher Henry Holt & Co is providing Cohen with the ultimate celebrity vanity project: his own publishing imprint.

From Al Rosen and Phillip Roth, to Marvin Miller to Ryan Braun, Jews have had an outsized influence on America’s pastime. The story of Jews, baseball, and American assimilation is, of course, a well-mined one, rich with legendary names both on and off the diamond. And on Tuesday evening, baseball fans young and old gathered at the American Jewish Historical Society in Manhattan to celebrate another telling of the story at an event called “A Family Fun Night of Baseball.”

I can think of no better way to celebrate Father’s Day than by watching the entire 30-episode run of Kroll Show, a triumph of dad-related and Jewish-related humor. Or you could just fast forward to a Season 2 sketch called “Fat Dad, Dirty House, The Curse of Cassandra.” Comedy Central obviously doesn’t think this is one of the series’s better sketches: it isn’t available as a standalone video, meaning you’ll have to find it here, within an episode called “Finger Magnets.” They’re wrong not to... Читать дальше...

The Italian conservative news outlet Il Giornale has been slammed by global media, Italy’s Jewish community, and the general public following its distribution of Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf, with the paper last Saturday.

Introducing first, in the red corner, hailing from Newport, Rhode Island, where there are a lot of Dunkin’ Donuts shops, and praying at the 250-year-old Touro Synagogue, brick-for-brick the oldest synagogue in the United States… Congregation Jeshuat Israel!

Exactly a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. After a contentious confirmation process, he became the first Jewish justice, serving on the bench for 23 years. His rulings on privacy, workers’ rights, and free speech feel as relevant today as they did when he issued them, and his foresight, wisdom, and clear-spokenness cemented his reputation as nothing short of a visionary.

I had no idea who the Nazis were until the 1978 NBC miniseries Holocaust, which chronicled the fate of the German-Jewish Weiss family during World War II. I was in fourth grade, and I remember being proud of teenage son Rudy Weiss, who fought with the partisans in the forest. At the same time, my other primary education about the Nazis came from Lynda Carter, star of TV’s Wonder Woman.

In case you haven’t heard, Captain America is a Nazi now and fanboys everywhere are losing their shit.