Новости за 22.09.2016

Look: This whole UNGA thing—you know, that New York event with those speeches by world leaders, including ones by Mahmoud Abbas and Bibi Netanyahu —is important and all, what, with a civil war raging on and on in Syria, and a Palestinian-Israeli conflict that continues and continues and continues. But you know what’s also news? Bathroom breaks. Especially Bibi’s.

Every year since 2011, on September 23, thousands gather in Ponary, Lithuania, to commemorate the 70,000 Jews murdered here and thrown into mass graves in this forested area outside the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, or Vilna. The date chosen for this National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Jews in Lithuania coincides with the beginning of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in 1941. This year, however, there will be memorial services not only in Ponary, but at other mass grave sites throughout the country... Читать дальше...

“There’s only one thing we can all agree on: that what we really want, all of us, is just to be together.”

This article was originally published on March 13, 2015, and re-upped for Campus Week.

This episode was recorded live from the JCC of Greater New Haven.

Our Jewish guest is Connecticut Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, who explains what exactly a lieutenant governor does. She also tells us how she made her way from Brooklyn to New England, whether she’d run for governor, and what she thinks of Donald Trump.

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What does it mean to be, as Mark Greif says he is in the title of his new collection of essays, Against Everything? It sounds like the motto of a nihilist or a misanthrope, someone who writes out of disgust and anger. But perhaps a nihilist is only a disappointed utopian, against everything because he can’t find anything good enough to be for—like Kafka’s Hunger Artist, who starved to death because he couldn’t find any food he liked. And the truth is that Greif, as we come to know him in these essays... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court’s fall term begins the first Monday in October. To mark this strange eight-justice time in our nation’s tangled political history, have a sit-down with your kids to read I Dissent! Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark. This new picture book provides a great opportunity to talk with kids about America’s evolving notions about the rights and capabilities of women, the notion of checks and balances, and the power of the judicial branch of government to create change. Of course, if... Читать дальше...

America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been reduced to rubble is not a simple “mistake,” as critics like Nicholas D. Kristof and Roger Cohen have lately claimed. Nor is it the product of any deeper-seated American impotence or of Vladimir Putin’s more recent aggressions. Rather, it is a byproduct of America’s overriding desire to clinch a nuclear deal with Iran, which was meant... Читать дальше...