Новости за 30.09.2016

Yesterday’s New York Times featured an illuminating profile of Momentum, the hard-left political activist organization that has effectively captured Britain’s Labour party for its radical leader Jeremy Corbyn. Co-written by reporter Stephen Castle and the Times‘ excellent London bureau chief Steven Erlanger, the article opened with an enthusiastic quote from the group’s vice chair, Jackie Walker, who exclaims, “We’re part of the biggest political movement in the last 50 years! The seeds we are sowing... Читать дальше...

Josh and Zach Sharpe’s parents used to tuck them into bed each night by the soothing glow of pinball machines in each of their rooms. Plus, there were two more machines in the dining room, eight in the living room, and another dozen in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. “My poor mom,” Josh recalled about their dad’s pinball collection.

Carnegie Deli, New York’s storied deli located in midtown Manhattan since 1937, is closing at the end of the year, the New York Post reported on Friday. And, well, it’s a shame, if only because delis are warm, comfortable places to stuff your face, and Carnegie Deli is such a place, and maybe the best when it comes to providing sandwiches that are stacked as high as one’s wrist from the elbow, or as wide as an oval plate allows.

A group of American rabbis are taking on Nancy Pelosi and the White House over one of the thorniest issues in international politics.

Editor’s note: The following is adapted from a speech given by Bernard-Henri Lévy, special representative of President François Hollande of France, in Kiev, Ukraine, on September 29 during memorial ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar .

Shimon Peres, who was buried this morning on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem at a funeral ceremony attended by leaders from over 100 countries, including President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, spent much of his life being eulogized. He certainly had the opportunity of reading his own political eulogy countless times. The man who was prime minister and president of the State of Israel, who held almost every significant ministerial position, who had won the Nobel Prize, was perennially... Читать дальше...

Alan Cooper doesn’t look like someone who played at Woodstock. On a recent afternoon, one of those thick and sticky Manhattan days that make you yearn for winter, the 66-year-old JTS professor was sitting at a table in an Italian restaurant, in a yellow Oxford shirt that hung big on his thin frame, with a plain olive baseball cap pulled down over his bald head. He was talking about the younger sister he recently lost to pancreatic cancer: Her funeral was on a Friday afternoon, and because you can’t sit shiva on Shabbat... Читать дальше...

Shimon Peres was one of the great conjurers of modern politics, able to make life-altering realities appear seemingly out of thin air. Like many other successful artists, or maybe all of them, his world-spanning imaginative gifts were matched by his technical mastery of the large systems of meaning he worked within, and by his gift for reading other people correctly and convincing them to give him what he wanted. His friends and his detractors might have both agreed that Israel was too small a stage for his talents... Читать дальше...

A veritable who’s who of American political figures are heading to Israel for Shimon Peres’s funeral on Friday. The U.S. delegation includes presidents Clinton and Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, members of Congress from both parties, and some important figures from nearly every phase of the Middle East peace process, including ambassador Martin Indyk, state department Middle East official Robert Malley, and Bush-era national security advisor Stephen Hadley. It’s a bipartisan group spanning... Читать дальше...