Новости за 17.06.2016

One year ago, Donald J. Trump descended a gleaming golden escalator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City to announce his candidacy for president. “This is beyond anyone’s expectations,” he said that day, coining perhaps the secondary slogan of his campaign.

The first episode of the second season of Arranged, the FYI network’s reality show about arranged marriages across a number of cultures, depicts, among others, the relationship between Vicki and Ben, an Orthodox Jewish couple. In preparation for their nuptials, the couples faces a number of internal obstacles common to many Orthodox couples, such as not being able to touch each other before marriage, the need for privacy, and the bride-to-be’s hesitancy to cover her hair, which becomes a major plot point. Читать дальше...

At the Detmold state court in Germany this week, 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning was convicted of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder for his role as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp from January 1943 to mid-1944. Selecting prisoners for hard labor and designating others for the gas chambers were among his responsibilities, and the court also heard substantial evidence that Hanning was aware of forced starvation and mass shootings, if not an active participant himself. After a four-month trial... Читать дальше...

For those of you who like to keep track of such things (like this column, apparently), there’s a new famous Jewish baby on the way! It was recently announced that actress Mila Kunis—the star of the fraught bat-mitzvah-coming-of-age story that is Black Swan (that was the subtext of that movie, right?), and this summer’s Bad Moms, a comedy about women who decide they want somewhat more out of life than attending, constantly and maniacally, to the organic perfection of their children (in my day,... Читать дальше...

This Sunday will mark the third time I’ll being on the receiving end of Father’s Day celebrations. And it’s weird. This whole fatherhood thing still feels weird in general, but it’s the whole Father’s Day thing that truly epitomizes an altered state of consciousness that forces me look in all fatherly directions.

This month, thousands of users took to Twitter to mess with the Nazis. Following media reports detailing how Trump-supporting white supremacists were targeting Jews online by placing parentheses around their names to harass and intimidate them on social media, Twitter users appropriated the symbol. The trend soon spread to politicians, celebrities, journalists, and more. From Atlantic correspondent (((Jeffrey Goldberg))) to West Wing and Scandal actor (((Josh Malina))) to Colorado congressman (((Jared Polis)))... Читать дальше...

“Where was I during the Holocaust?” my father—a widower, living in an assisted-living apartment—asked during a recent Skype call with my brother.

My father had many lives, and he lived them large. He was a scientist and a mystic, an executive and a farmer, a marksman and an astrologer, an American and an Israeli. He was my father, but also my crush, dashing, charming, and utterly graceful, whether extracting a splinter from my foot or dancing in a tux. Like his mother, a painter, he had an eye for color, line, and shape. He took me to the Metropolitan Museum to show me the mummies and picked out my organza dresses for the High Holidays. Читать дальше...

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

Not President Obama, who spoke briefly and murkily about what drove Omar Mateen to murder scores of innocents in Orlando earlier this week before speaking at length about the murderer’s tools of choice. Not former State Department official and current Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, who chastised a reporter on Twitter for giving context about ISIS and its ties to similar attacks. And certainly not the New York Times: In his new column for the Paper of Record... Читать дальше...

The massacre of 49 people at a gay club in Orlando—a hate crime—has once again thrust debates about the reach of Islamic extremism and gun control into the public consciousness. Mass murders, especially ones executed by a wife-beating, jihadism-inspired executioner wielding an AR-15, tend to do that. A discursive spark, both in Congress and along Main Streets in America about who should be able to buy guns here, and which types of weapons they can buy, along with working to understand and protect innocent people from future rampages... Читать дальше...