Новости за 12.08.2016

This Sunday, August 14, Jews will mark the fast of the Ninth of Av, an annual day of mourning commemorating the anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem. It’s the darkest date in Jewish history.

Savta’s Kitchen

I’m in my Savta’s breezy kitchen in Haifa. The balcony is open, bringing in gusts of warm wind from the Carmel Mountains. The tiled floor keeps my bare feet cool, tucked under my grandma’s tiny kitchen table. She feeds me chicken with onions, white rice, and her famous pickled eggplants that she makes especially when she knows I’m coming over. She keeps bringing more food, as if she is trying to empty the fridge before a big trip. I tell her I can’t possibly eat it all, but, like any good grandma, she ignores me. Читать дальше...

The Chosen Ones is a weekly column by author and comedian Periel Aschenbrand, who interviews Jews doing fabulous things.

I was born in 1947 and am more than a decade older than Senator Tim Kaine and his wife Anne Holton. However, as I listened to the Vice-Presidential acceptance speech the Virginia Senator delivered at the Democratic National Convention and watched his wife Anne Holton, current Secretary of Education of the Commonwealth, sitting next to her father, former Governor of Virginia Linwood Holton, I thought back to my own formative years in Newport News, Virginia. It was there that my eastern European... Читать дальше...

“I have a bias in favour of both Arabs and Jews in the sense that I believe that both … are as capable of making peace as of waging war.”
—Ralph Bunche, 1949

In my day, before the Earth cooled, we weren’t terribly sensitive to the ways language could be hurtful. At my Jewish summer camp in the ’80s, there was a child of color whose last name was White; kids joked that his middle name was “Isn’t.” We called a male Israeli dance instructor “the leaping lez.” There was a group of kids with special needs; at night, the boys would taunt one of the campers in an attempt to make him call for shmira, the counselors on safety patrol. He pronounced it “shmiwa,”... Читать дальше...

While some Jews—like my boss at the Weekly Standard William Kristol, and Tablet colleague James Kirchick—are at the heart of the anti-Trump movement within the Republican Party, some Jewish Republicans continue to support him. There is mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, for one. There is also Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, and a host of corporate retainers. Yet there are also Jewish intellectuals who support a man from whom the entire American elite recoils in horror. So, who are these people?

Feh. I’m over everyone acting all nutty about the circles on Michael Phelps’s back. How quickly we forget, America! We got into a tizzy when Gwyneth Paltrow did this a scant few years ago! (Michael Phelps, get back to me when you start steaming your vagina.) Jennifer Aniston was a cupper three years ago! You can see old photos of Victoria Beckham with cup marks surrounding the Hebrew tattoo on her spine! A few months back, Samuel L. Jackson Instagrammed a pic of his naked back completely covered in cups and acupuncture needles... Читать дальше...