Новости за 25.08.2016

In the February 7, 1969 of edition of The Jewish Press, Irene Klass, the former publisher of the newspaper, wrote an article called “Steven Hill’s Million IMpossible.” The title, of course, was an homage to Hill’s lead role as Dan Briggs on TV’s Mission Impossible—a role he held onto for just one year, in part because of certain “difficulties,” including the actor’s refusal to work late on Shabbat. Hill died on Tuesday in Monsey, New York, where he lived for decades. He was 94.

Between 1939 and 1945, one third of the Jewish people in the world were murdered. That was genocide. And since Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 in a war of self-defense, the Arab population in these two areas has gone from just over a million to well over four million. That is not genocide. If anything, it’s a population explosion.

On display at a London gallery through September 3 is a project by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau called “Salt Bride,” consisting of a set of eight images that document the material transformation of a dress submerged in the Dead Sea for two years. The dress is supposed to resemble that of the costume worn by Leah, a young bride possessed by an evil spirit in S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, which made it onto Tablet’s list of 101 Greatest Jewish Books.

An excavation for a Nazi-era train that has never been confirmed to exist began over a week ago in Poland. The dig was led by explorers Piotr Koper, from Poland, and Andreas Richter, from Germany, who claimed to have located the mythical train—believed to have carried riches for the Nazis toward the end of World War II—in secret tunnels below the Owl Mountains in southwest Poland. The project, however, was fruitless. Well, except for a lot of dirt.

This week on Unorthodox, Sia gets sued for underwhelming Tel Aviv concertgoers.

For readers tired of the same old partisan American ideologies, Yuval Levin, in his book The Fractured Republic, offers something new and seductive. He wants everyone to get real about a new reality, one that baby-boomer ideologues of all stripes have obscured. Levin, founder and editor of National Affairs magazine and a theorist highly touted by House Speaker Paul Ryan, seeks a sweet spot from which he can scorn both the conventional Left and Right as retrograde. Literally retrograde. When they should be modernizing... Читать дальше...

In 2013, Tablet contributor Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote a fantastic article about the Voynich Manuscript, a ~240-page work written in code, which incorporates an indecipherable script (the alphabet contains between 20 and 30 character), and pictures and diagrams, and many, many (illustrations of) naked ladies bathing in pools and holding hands.” It is named after a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich, “who first began to mention it in his correspondence in 1912.” It remains “a mysterious manuscript has plagued historians... Читать дальше...